Victoria Song

Like these are good things for you.

These are things you should do or whatnot.

So that was great.

But those behaviors I just described to you are like the early hallmarks of eating disorders and disordered eating, which are two different things.

But, you know, my therapist noticed it.

My friends noticed it.

I had interventions held and I was like, oh...

I've become really obsessive in a way that is harming me and that I didn't even realize was harming me.

Me, someone who is very aware of the ways that data fatigue can be pernicious.

I had slipped into it.

Like, I don't know many athletes or women who have not had a period of disordered or disordered eating or eating disorders within their lives.

It's very common.

It's very pervasive.

It's very supported by diet culture.

I dealt with it as a teen, and I worked really hard for decades to have a healthy relationship with food and exercise.

And I found that I was just like, oh.

I can just take a 40-minute walk after this meal and then I'm allowed to have a piece of cake.

And that is not healthy thinking.

That's not healthy thinking whatsoever.

And if you don't, like, notice it, if you don't flag it, that can turn into something a lot more dangerous very quickly.