This is something comedian Margaret Cho wrote in 2003 and I just rediscovered. She writes about how, after years of struggling with her weight, she simply gave up and stopped obsessing about food, and, weirdly enough, got thinner. I hesitate to quote it, you should read the whole thing, but if you insist:
I stopped exercising, and started writing. I played with my dogs. I looked at shit on Ebay. I started to eat what I wanted - and kept doing it. Not a food vacation - not a respite between diets. I just was going to eat eat eat eat eat eat and fucking eat some more.
Then, I kind of started to get weirdly thinner. I get it now. Because I don’t care about food, it is there when I want it, I don’t crave it and want it and think about it. Since I can have everything, nothing is that important. I don’t need to eat a whole cake because I can eat a whole cake every day every meal if I want and I don’t care.
The link above is how the text appeared in 2003. You can also read the post on her current blog, with smaller text and distracting margins. Although she is a healthy weight now, based on recent posts she isn’t completely free of issues.
