Alice Vol. 7 No. 3
Charmed continues to inform college women on the issues that matter while also embracing our big sister role in the form of a college survival guide. In this issue, we have everything from a myth-busting UTI article to calling out performative activism efforts. We feature women who are artists, fashion designers and entrepreneurs. There are fool-proof date night looks to ease any new-love butterflies and a deep dive into how a TikTok subculture has revitalized a population’s love for reading. This issue is a celebration of love, and you can call us, charmed.
Charmed continues to inform college women on the issues that matter while also embracing our big sister role in the form of a college survival guide. In this issue, we have everything from a myth-busting UTI article to calling out performative activism efforts. We feature women who are artists, fashion designers and entrepreneurs. There are fool-proof date night looks to ease any new-love butterflies and a deep dive into how a TikTok subculture has revitalized a population’s love for reading. This issue is a celebration of love, and you can call us, charmed.
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history and anthropology at The University<br />
of Alabama, who has been in recovery from an<br />
eating disorder since 2015. “<strong>No</strong>ne of the girls<br />
would eat during lunch. They would have a<br />
snack and that would be it. In sorority culture<br />
on campus, if you’re not wearing a size zero,<br />
you’re kind of big.”<br />
As young adults move away from home<br />
for the first time,<br />
they are exposed<br />
to different<br />
environments that<br />
make maintaining<br />
healthy living an<br />
obstacle.<br />
Michaela Philip,<br />
a senior studying<br />
public health at<br />
The University<br />
of Alabama at<br />
Birmingham,<br />
struggled her first<br />
year of college to<br />
maintain a healthy routine.<br />
“You get so busy and that can be an easy<br />
justification for not eating. Sometimes that’s<br />
the root cause and other times I used it to<br />
feed an already unhealthy relationship with<br />
food,” Philip said. “Growing up, the goal in<br />
my mind was always to lose weight. The first<br />
step in healing my relationship with food was<br />
learning that restricting and skipping meals is<br />
“In sorority culture<br />
on campus, if you’re<br />
not wearing a size<br />
zero, you’re kind of<br />
big”<br />
not helping me. If I want to lose weight, I am<br />
not on the right track by skipping lunch every<br />
day and forgetting to eat for eight hours.”<br />
Often disordered eating behaviors start<br />
with a desire for healthy eating. In fact, 35%<br />
of “normal” dieters progress to pathological<br />
dieting and of those 20 to 25% develop eating<br />
disorders according to NEDA. Philip however,<br />
has shifted her<br />
mindset from weight<br />
loss to something<br />
more holistic.<br />
“The end goal now is<br />
definitely just exercise<br />
and eat because I<br />
want to exercise and<br />
I want to eat and not<br />
have anything to do<br />
with my weight. I<br />
want to run because<br />
I want to feel good. I<br />
like that my resting<br />
heart rate is lower, I<br />
like going up the stairs and not feeling out of<br />
breath,” Philip said.<br />
There are many ways in which people looking<br />
to feel healthier can maintain a healthy<br />
mindset and perspective. For instance, Gregg<br />
is one of the many practitioners who follow<br />
the Health at Every Size (HAES) approach,<br />
popularized by Linda Bacon, a professor and<br />
researcher at The University of California<br />
at Davis. HAES emphasizes living a healthy<br />
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