Functional art! A warning sign, to be exact. It hung on my fridge during the years when I was anorexic. There are several flavors of anorexia:

• hating your body
• not hating it but wanting to be asexual
• just plain feeling too fat no matter how thin you get
• pure body-neglect, where you feel little hunger.

Turned out later, I was allergic to a lot of foods, and didn't absorb them well. Feeling yucky after eating sure discourages you from wanting to eat again! I wonder how many other anorexics aren't really brainwashed or neurotic but just can't absorb wheat or cheese or whatever, and don't know it? I didn't...

But before I knew what foods made me sick, I tended (especially when upset or preoccupied) to poison myself inadvertently. After a thousand days of bellyaches, I got mad, and set this sarcastic Wrong Way sign on the refrigerator door. It worked, too--it slowed me down till I learned I HAVE to eat mindfully. Can't trust emotion, or even my sense of hunger. Have to THINK before I eat!

I've gained 25 pounds--still a bit too thin, but I'm pretty healthy now.

Art won!

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