Last night I had dinner with my parents. I had read a newspaper article on the train ride home that said if you are trying to stave off hunger, simply visualize the last meal you ate. I was rather hungry at that moment so I decided to think back to my last meal. What was lunch? A smoothie. I tried visualizing a smoothie but it didn’t quite work, I was still pretty hungry. Maybe if I thought back to my meal before that one…. a cup of coffee? I thought of the cup of coffee but that didn’t help either. What did I eat the night before? A cup of yogurt. Mmmmm, prune yogurt that had separated. Nope, that didn’t work either. It was at that moment I decided I should go home and let my mom feed me.

I read a NYT article that had the headline, “Many Normal-Weight Teens Feel Fat.” No duh! Truth is, I think most Normal-Weight PEOPLE feel fat. I know I do, regardless of whether I binge, starve, or eat healthy. Just this morning I got on the scale, certain I was 10 pounds over my normal weight- only to find that I was exactly… my normal weight. It’s just so odd. I don’t get it.