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1st July 2016
03:40pm BST

Amanda goes on to open up about her struggles in a candid blog post. “I used to get mad at myself for feeling hungry” Amanda confesses in a heartbreaking blog post. “And if hunger was a sign of weakness, than giving in to that hunger meant I was a failure. These are legitimate thoughts that went through my mind whenever I was hungry. When my stomach growled or I found myself craving a cookie, I would genuinely get enraged at myself.” The 24-year-old continues to talk about her eating disorder and how it impacted her as a woman. “As women, we're constantly bombarded with messages telling us how to suppress our hunger, how to ignore cravings, how to drink a glass of ice water instead of eating a snack. So it's no surprise we associate hunger & eating with negative thoughts and self-hate,” she writes. She then advises others to ignore society and instead focus on providing your body with what it craves. “Because your body knows what it needs. When you have a craving, it's your body asking you to give it whatever it's craving. Your body is a lot smarter than you think. Most importantly, it's a lot smarter than your eating disorder is. Trust your body. Feed it” she writes. Here here.
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