A sweet NYT story documents the disappearance of college cafeteria trays. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/29/nyregion/29tray.html?_r=1&hp
For me, memories of college, cafeterias, weight, body image, stress and exercise are all intermixed, as they surely are for so many women who are or once were in their late teens or early twenties; living on their own for the first time; contending with social and academic pressures; and confronting gustatory temptations on- and off-campus day and night. In the autumn of my freshman year, I lost the 15 or so pounds I’d been battling throughout high school – only to gain about 40 pounds that spring, gorging on late-night pizza during late nights at the campus newspaper. Junior year saw substantial weight loss to the point where a campus doctor warned she’d diagnose me as “borderline anorexic” if I didn’t start gaining pounds. Continue reading…
