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Strange Eyes Have Found Us by AnnuskA - AnnA Theodora on Flickr.

A través de Flickr:
Check this photo out. This is me at 17. For three years I was also on the volleyball team. I wasn’t brilliant, but wasn’t too bad either. My main activity had always been swimming.

At 17 I was 1,70m and weighted 52kg. And you have no idea of how much I used to eat. My mother used to say I’d become obese whenever I stopped doing sports.

Just so you have an idea:

Breakfast: oatmeal with honey and banana or avocado + two sandwiches + a glass of chocolate milk

middle morning snack: pack of coockies, around 200g or a chocolate bar (the whole thing)

lunch: Around 800g of pasta + whatever sauce my mother made + grilled meat + two glasses of juice

After lunch I had piano classes and then I had swim practice, so before the swim practice I would eat another whole package of cookies.

After swim practice, I’d get home and eat another two sandwiches, a glass of chocolate milk and wait for dinner, that was usually soup (with noodles).

And throughout the day, I’d eat lots of bananas. I mean lots! Usually from 6 to 12 a day, depending on my much my body was asking for.

This was just an average day, I’d also get lots of ice-cream and creamy stuff everytime I had spare money.

And even though healthy and strong, I wasn’t looking much thicker than a walking tooth pick.

Then I went to live in USA as an exchange student for one year and got fat. Took me two years to healthly go back to a normal weight. And today I eat around 1/4 of what I used to as a teenager, and I still exercise a lot.

The model in this photo, Carol, is just like me when I was her age (she’s 18+), and just like SO many people I know. They are naturally thin, and have a fast metabolism. She is healthy and eats more than I do.

Now, on every photo I post of her, there is someone saying that she doesn’t look healthy or afirming she is not healthy and resorting to the “eat a cookie” clichè.

The *funniest* thing is that people calling her unhealthly thin are… guess what? Overweight!!

I know some people can’t see past their incongruencies, that’s how they are. Just like extremely thin people can’t easily gain weight, that’s how they are.

And I have asked for respect before, but there’s ALWAYS a handfull of people who just feel this urge to be unpleasant…

I have writen all of this, and you might think I am angry, I am not. It is a “just so you know” kind of thing.

p.s. Then the people who wrote this or that comment send me flickr mails saying that they are upset with what I wrote, well… how do YOU think Carol feels when she gets people saying things about her, things they don’t have knowledge of, over and over and over nauseatingly ad infinitum that she is anorexic, that she is bullimic when in fact she isn’t and when she can’t help it being thin?

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Nemo me impune lacessit, that’s what I say. Não vem provocar quem está quieto. E isso vale pra cobrinha que depois de me criticar, vem copiando meu estilo e minhas idéias. Me aguarde.