Seventeen: weight-based trauma, food noise, and the three-handed messy guy in the closet.

Portrait of a Slow Runner Post Nutrition Label Content Type: Text Read Time: 7 min Topics: Weight loss and trauma I've lost about 10 pounds this month. It is intentional, especially after my ER visit last month, but it's been a weird experience nonetheless. Let me tell you about it... I don't think I've had a particularly healthy relationship with my body image. Growing up, it was Very Clear that my weight was a big deal to everyone else in ways that I didn't really grok until middle school. There were three1 moments in particular absolutely seared into my head. This may be triggering for folks so be warned that below there be dragons. "I've seen it before"First, in sixth grade, the school did scoliosis checks across my grade. Checking today, there didn't seem to be any state mandated testing so I don't really know why t was happening. But very early one morning, they lined all of us outside the locker rooms, separated by sex assigned at birth, and were marched through one at a time…