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Emily Childers FAML 460 W07 Persuasive Blog Shortly after joining social media, and feeling the increased pressure to be in a thinner body, my disordered eating patterns went from bad to dangerous. I worked out for 6+ hours a day. I was constantly dieting. I cut out pictures of “fit bodies” from fitness magazines and put them on vision boards, to imagine my body being better than I thought it was. If I visualized it enough, and worked hard enough, surely I would get my “ideal” body, right? The standards I held my body to were unattainable if I wanted to be healthy with my genetics. So I sacrificed my health, to look "fit." I sacrificed my health, to look "healthy," which was pretty ironic. I started losing my hair. My skin and nails were in terrible condition and the perma-circles under my eyes said everything. I wasn't happy and the worst part was, my relationships suffered. It took several hundred hours of intense therapy to work through...