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[I am skeptical of the wisdom of identifying my core categories in advance of most of the research that I will do. If these By definition must emerge from the data, this can hardly be considered more than an exercise at becoming more fluent in the concept of core categories since there is so little data driving them.] disordered eating motherhood appetite right eating relationship with food (euphemism of) success unspeakable concepts described antonymically (failure) or by allusion and describing its boundaries (weight in ethnographic interviews, medicine in WLS advertising as well as ethnographic interviews) choice ordinariness "for them" (your family/children) "you" de-medicalization

Possible Core Categories: Choice - choices about what to eat, whether to get a medical procedure, whether to ascribe to an ideology or value system, to look Family Responsibility - responsibilities to role model, to live, to labor