"I think I will just vacuum the cat, but she protests."

[michiko147]

Marya Hornbacher.  Ohoho.  What can I say about her?  Maybe that I carry around her books every where I go and quote her articles at the most unexpected moments.  Or that if someone asks me to find a certain part in any of her books, I know exactly where it is.  Or that I need a new copy of Wasted because I have marked it and bent it so much from

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[tomandakaulitz]

OMG DDR HP2??? where did you get this?!?!?!?! btw those quotes are pretty funny =)

[michiko147]

I ordered it on Amazon, but the transaction didn't go through, so I have to order it again. :/ I was getting SO BORED with DDR HP3. When I get HP2, you need to come over and play! :D

Marya Hornbacher is hilarious. There are some really funy parts in that book. *luvs on her*

[xxzekkeishokuxx]

I have been wanting to read Wasted for a long time. I definitely wanted to after finding a quote from the book that completely got my attention:

"We take a certain sick pride in the fact that we know the caloric and fat content of every possible food on the planet, and have an understandable disdain for nutritionists who attempt to tell us the caloric content of anything, when we are the gods of caloric content and have delusions of nutritional omniscience, when said nutritionist will attempt to explain that the average woman needs a daily diet of 2,000 or more calories when we ourselves have been doing JUST FUCKING FINE on 500."

[michiko147]

Wasted is amazing. It doesn't glamourize eating disorders like most E.D. books. It's just brutally, brutally honest, so much so that you want to look away. Overall, it's the best book I've ever read on E.D.s-- heck, the best book I've ever read in general! Marya somehow captures all the different reasons for eating disorders. I don't think she missed a single one, and that's pretty freaking amazing.

You should definitely get Wasted. It helped me realize a lot of things and look at the honest truth. It pushed me into recovery the first time (of course, that didn't last long but...) and it's been there when I feel lonely in this disease, because it's the only thing around that understands.