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When grief-induced weight loss receives praise

I have been big my whole life but recently lost a parent and cannot eat and people keep complimenting my weight loss during the worst time of my life.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The social celebration of body changes can be deeply inappropriate when those changes signal suffering.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Weight body size and health — beyond BMI?”

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