Everyone Is Talking About Weight Blindness: Inside TikTok’s Viral “What I Ate When I Was Fat” Trend
If you’ve ever experienced weight fluctuations in your life, you might relate to your perception of what you think you look like lagging behind real-time feedback. As much as we’ve heard about body dysmorphia being a prolific neurosis affecting people with restrictive eating disorders, did you know it can manifest in the reverse direction, too?
Social media users are drawing attention to weight blindness with hilarious personal anecdotes about the various ways they’ve deluded themselves into believing they were much smaller than they really were, or if they did have some self-awareness about their size, they lacked awareness of where it could possibly be coming from. They barely ate anything! Spoiler alert: “barely anything” was often clocking in at upwards of 3,000 calories a day. Damn you, calorie density.