I’ve always been an early riser. When I was a kid, I would wake up before everyone else, blinking into the dark, and creep out of pitch-black rooms…
Broken glass, dinner plates left uneaten, Mirrors only good for showing me what I Already knew. The young years, the naïve years. Thinking, this will be the last…
I’ve never officially been diagnosed with an eating disorder, but I am a human American woman with immigrant parents and, when I was growing up, I obtained most…
She died while I was skate-dancing to “Fantasy” by Mariah Carey at my friend Sarah’s birthday party at Ron-A-Roll. Mid-party, my stomach started to hurt, and I pulled…
I have tried every diet in the book, even the dangerous ones, even the silly ones. My fascination with dieting started at a fairly young age. Like most…
In this next special issue from the Inquisitive Eater, our contributors dive into the meat of their best and worst experiences with dieting and diet culture. As writers,…