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Intern Lauren here was all stressed out before Christmas because she was getting, was it a family picture done? Well, one of my sisters lives in Missouri and she was coming down. She has about a year and a half old baby. So my mom was like, oh, that'd be really cool if, you know, three of my kids and my granddaughter would get their picture taken. And at first I was like, yeah, I guess we haven't had our picture taken in like the past four years and we all changed a little. And but then I was thinking about it like it's Christmas time. And usually, you know, Christmas time also involves holiday foods like cookies and candy and like all the like the bad stuff. And then I was like, great, I have to work out the whole time during Christmas. I can't eat anything because I'm going to look at these pictures forever and I'm going to be fat in them. I just don't want it. These weight issues that come up with the women on the show all the time. I was shocked a couple of weeks ago when you guys said that women constantly, 24-7, think about food and what they put in their mouth.

All the time. All the time. And I think some more than others, and I think we have to qualify

it too, because we've talked to so many of our listeners, that it's more of a white girl issue

than it is, you know, it's more of the Caucasian girls that are obsessed with weight and that

kind of thing. But yeah, it's on our minds all the time. How many times a day do you think you think about your weight? Honestly, probably the whole day. Really? I mean, I don't know. Me, I might be different because in high school I had issues, I guess, somewhat. But, yeah, all the time. Like, I think about working out constantly and I have to, like, at least get it over with

in the morning and then I won't think about it in the afternoon.

I don't know.

I'm a different person, I guess.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, let's back up to the high school.

Yeah, we're not going to let's go.

I don't know.

I guess like, let's see, I was in cross-country and I lost like a lot of weight and then I guess it kept proceeding until senior year where I lost a ton of weight and people didn't know how. I mean, I was seriously just working out. Like, I love to work out. And people kept saying, you know, you're losing a lot of weight and it looks like really unhealthy. Like my sister's wedding photos. Like, you can see all the bones in my belly. I mean, it was like creepy, gross, but like I didn't recognize it

at the time, but... Do you think it was an eating disorder? Were you starving yourself? I really wasn't. Like, I ate a little bit, and then I would work out a bun, like a ton, like how much, like how many hours a day? I mean, it really, like at the time was like an hour and a half, but I really wasn't eating that much, but I was still eating to the point where, you know, I wasn't

starving myself, but I really wasn't eating that much. But I was still eating to the point where, you know, I wasn't starving myself, but. Did you pass out? No. Like, I was totally fine. And, like, I never realized it. And, like, oh, that's really cool. Like, I'm super, super skinny. Isn't that what an eating disorder is? It's a distor. Because you do get a distorted view of yourself. You've seen the stories about the women that are inorex against starving themselves and the skinnier they got and how they looked, they thought they looked better. Like in their eyes it was better when the rest of the world was like, oh my gosh, no, it's so unhealthy. I mean, at the time, I didn't realize anything. I'm like, I look at the pictures now, and I'm like, oh, my God, I can't believe

I was actually that skinny, but, I mean, I really didn't think anything was wrong with me then. I stole someone, but that's a different story. When you look at the pictures now and you see yourself back then. gross and my mom's like I can't believe you're that skinny and I was just like yeah I know

but you still kind of liked it yeah do you get gross and my mom's like I can't believe you are that skinny and I was just like yeah I know

but you still kind of liked it yeah do you do you still look at those pictures now and aspire to

that I guess not now because I was so thin but I mean I wish I could still be somewhat I mean bigger

than that but still thinner than I am now where do you think all that comes comes from? Honestly, I don't know. I think when I was a child, I was kind of chubby. So maybe as a child, I always thought, man, I wish I was skinny. And then by the time that I got that skinny, then I thought, wow, like, you know, it can actually happen that I can be skinny. So I guess mentally I always think like I don't know I just think

about like weight a lot. And I think I'm like the only one of my family because they're like, why do you think about going to the gym and eating so much? I'm just like, I don't know. It's kind of become, do you feel like it's like an obsession level? Yeah. Really? I mean, And when I talk about to my friends, like, why do you think about going to the gym all the time?

I was like, I don't know.

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