If you're on a diet, you're expecting this to happen. But if you're eating the same way -- and now have to adjust your belt a few notches tighter -- you could have a serious problem.

Others think it's a little cut, or something in their urine.

It can be very disastrous if it's not treated.

There is no third option presented by diet culture – there is only black or white, good or bad, dieting or off-the-wagon... And many people flip between the two states like a light switch, on or off, for more or less their entire lives.

We were really expecting something (violent) to happen. I wasn't preparing myself for this because I wasn't expecting it to happen.

In the very same books that tell us to locate our self-worth not in how we look but in who we are and how we feel – there is a consistent, entrenched fear of fatness.