A term used to describe people who see bulimia as a lifestyle choice rather than a disease or disorder. Also associated with pro-ana, the same idea but refers to anorexia.
Julia is pro-mia, she sees her eating habits of binging then purdging as normal, not a disease.
There are many pro-mia websites created that give tips on how to live with bulimia and make people not notice.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)