^If only you could all apply your excellent logic to yourselves!!
I'm sorry you're struggling with your eating at the moment and I hope you can keep using your work as motivation to try to eat well. Can you think of any other benefits to eating a decent amount, e.g. better skin, more energy etc?
It is not your responsibility to not get assaulted, though I appreciate that you would want to take steps to try to prevent such a thing happening again. However, losing weight is not something that will help. People of all sizes unfortunately sometimes stumble across an unpleasant human specimen who breaks the law and hurts others. Lots of people experience sexual abuse in childhood which is unpleasant evidence that being small and at a low weight doesn't make you immune from these things.
If you want to feel empowered and that you are doing something to keep yourself safe (though I repeat that this is not your responsibility), how about taking a self-defence class and/or investing in a panic alarm?
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