"Life-Size" seems to have dominated discussion this week, and rightedly so. It was disturbingly insightful. In class, we discussed how oftentimes, eating disorders are formed, in part, because of a need for control. There is a quote in this essay which I think alludes to that need: "Fine with me. I don't want any involuntary responses; soon, in this body, everything will be willed"(254). I always wonder where this need for control comes from, how it is initiated in the mind. I've heard it said that people cannot imagine having an eating disorder because they cannot imagine loving themselves that little. There is something that has always bothered me about that statement because it seems to inherently blame the victim of an eating disorder. ("She only got that because she didn't love herself enough.") As Amber said, who really does love their body enough? It seems like such a difficult task, to warmly embrace and accept everything that society, critical parents, catty friends remind us are imperfections. I know that I am still learning to love my body better.