Anorexia/Bulimia

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oh god dude, my ex girlfriend was/is anorexic / and bulimic.

The last 3-4-5-6 months of being with her was torture on myself. Yelling at her to ****ing stop..(since long emotional talks didnt work) "OH BUT I HAD 100 CALORIES TODAY"

Yeah you're really going to **** up your metabolism and after the weights gone if you recover, youll just gain it right back.

I don't mean to sound so angry about the topic it's a really sensitive thing obviously but my point exactly, it takes a lot to help someone.. takes their own conscious decision to quit or seek assistance, kind of like quitting smoking in comparison.

anyways she lost roughly 40 or 50 pounds in one or two months. It was disgusting, and now she claims she eats and doesnt throw it up, and really i couldnt care less anymore about what she does but I have to say... somebody with those sicknesses really needs to take into consideration the impact it has on friends and family as well as their own health and well-being.
 
a girl at work made a comment that said "anything under 140 is anorexic" she just mad she fat.
 
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Lexibby. said:
LOL.
anything under 105 is anorexic.
I'm 110. ;D

140+ is like PLUS SIZED.
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anything under 105 is anorexic? you're a fool. please tell me you're aware people have different heights and different bodies? i'm 5'8" and 118 lbs and according to the bmi i'm 17.9, which makes me underweight, but i'm always eating and i've come to terms that it's just the way my body is. the same reason someone who's 4'11" could be 90 lbs or something. it's just the way their body is, their standpoint, i believe it's called in psychology.


edit: oops old thread, but it's stickied, so i didn't bump~ anything, not really.
 
This certainly brings up memories. I has anorexia nervosa and bulimia during a time in my life, I had a complex about my body and was going through depression. Eating, and vomiting were my escape form. Trust me this isn't my pity party it was a time where I learned a hell of a lot about myself and life.
 
Hi I suffer wit bulimia I suffer wit it daily its gotten worse in recent mths I dnt knw how to overcome it.:reallysad:
 
32mTexas said:
Wow :reallysad. I know someone from this site who suffers from both and she is the greatest friend ever. Everything in here reminds me of her. The pins and needles, stomache pains, headaches, pergnancy issues, the shame, the only thing she has control of. :reallysad She has been this way since she was 12 and she is now 23. Although she has friends and a social life she is hiding a very lonely world from her friends and family. I am 1 of only 2 that know about her situation. I wish I could help her but she doen't want my help. She just wants someone to talk to and listen to her about her problems. It can sometimes be depressing but I still listen only because I care about her. ...........
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Thats very sad. :reallysad:
 
My niece suffers from anorexia. It started when she was 8 years old, and she had kept in a secret. Not all forms of it are from thinking your fat. But, most of them are. Some a really stress related and what not.

But, anways. She was hospitalized for 2 weeks, and if she couldn't finish her food within a certain time limit they would threaten her with a tube that they would stick down her throat, to feed herself for her. Its a very ugly process, really. And more than half of the girls that are anorexic/bulimic aren't even fat, or even overweight at all. And, if they do want to do it to lose weight, by the time they do it will already have spiraled completely out of control. There are also places you can go to talk to someone about it and for treatment.

I don't know if what I just said has anything to do with what this thread is about. I didn't read anything else. But, I just kinda wanted to get it off my chest anyways. Not really a lot of people I can go to without it being really sensitive for them.

I just read down some....
I am 103 pounds, and I am not anorexic.
I probably eat more than all of you combined.
I just stand at 5'0 and have an extremely fast metabolism.​
 
I'd love to add to this, when I say that I started out
at about 140 and 5'5, when I developed a form
of anorexia and habit-forming bulimia problems.
It started because of shit like:

140+ is PLUS SIZED.​

All it takes is one ignorant, uninformed statement
to trigger someone. Anyone who's in recovery
will know what I'm saying.​

I did basketball, track and tennis on the side when I
was 14. I was muscular and athletic, but I wanted
to be small, no muscle- to be nothing. So it started
with me sleeping instead of eating, skipping breakfast
and substituting sugar-free gum and water for lunch.
Graduated to diuretics and laxatives.
I'm in a recovery + therapy-based program right now.​

Height/weight + genetics play a huge factor in
how people look. No one with the same weight
will ever look exactly the same.

For me, I would be underweight at 120 lbs, and
overweight at 150. I always worried more about:
'At what weight will people like me the most?'

For someone who started out at your idea of obesity,
I lost 25 lbs and a great deal of respect from some of
my team mates and friends. But those same people
had to show me where I was going wrong, what I had
to learn.

To everyone suffering: you owe it to yourself to get treatment, no matter what stage you're in. It's a slippery slope- we both know that part.

And to the original quote:
I hope you pride yourself on being 5 lbs from 'anorexia'.
It's a hell of a ride.
 
Read a book about this once. It's called "Wasted" and was written by Marya Hornbacher. Great book. Should prove useful for anyone attempting to understand this sort of thing.
 
I've had a rather personal experience with anorexia. I'm really glad you put this information together. Hopefully it can inform others of anorexia and bulimia. People need to know about this. So many don't take it seriously. Anorexia and bulimia ARE addictions, just like everything else, and they need to be taken seriously. Thank you for putting this together ^_^
 
I struggled with bulimia through high school. No one ever knew and no one still knows. It's a hard thing to over come. People do make an influence on people. Even when you don't know it there are people watching you. Just the littlest things would effect the outcomes for me. The most important thing is that an individual is happy with themselves. Body images are not everything, what really counts is the inside. I give props to anyone who is suffering and recovering or has recover from bulimia or anorexia or any addiction <3
 
goinawol said:
Hi I suffer wit bulimia I suffer wit it daily its gotten worse in recent mths I dnt knw how to overcome it.:reallysad:
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Seek professional guidance...find out the meta-issues taht cause your destructive behaviour. Talking about a problem, except in a group format will not help. you admit you have a problem, now, the next step is to act by doing something positive(pro-active) see a professional A.S.A.P. It's your move.
 
I've had three male friends who've suffered with anorexia and bulemia.. Hmm, eight years of worry, withering, and fear.. It's no way to live but so hard to control.. Suffer in silence, a slave to our obsession and the adverts make it worse. :curse:
 
Starving yourself will not make you lose weight, it will make you gain. Eating in between meals with small snacks will boost your metabolism and you will be able to lose weight easier. Bulimia rots your teeth out and you can die from the harmful fluids that are up-chucked by gagging by burning the esophagus, and over time, it can lead to a deadly infection. Most of these two eating disorders happen when a girl hits puberty, and she begins to feel self-concious about her appearance. It gets pretty severe and it kills a lot of people each year. When you think you are helping your body, your only hurting it.
 
Oddot said:
Starving yourself will not make you lose weight, it will make you gain. Eating in between meals with small snacks will boost your metabolism and you will be able to lose weight easier. Bulimia rots your teeth out and you can die from the harmful fluids that are up-chucked by gagging by burning the esophagus, and over time, it can lead to a deadly infection. Most of these two eating disorders happen when a girl hits puberty, and she begins to feel self-concious about her appearance. It gets pretty severe and it kills a lot of people each year. When you think you are helping your body, your only hurting it.
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You're just repeating things that I'm sure everyone in this thread already know.
It's an outright lie that starving yourself won't make you lose weight. If it didn't
work, none of these people would have tried it or kept doing it.

Anorexia or bulimia can't be quickly dismissed with "Go eat a small snack in between
meals, you'll lose weight and maybe stop feeling like you're ugly." I doubt that anyone
who's been through this could say it would have been easy to stop, right after
learning about all of the bad things these disorders do to their bodies. It's a loss
of control.

Goinawal needs to go talk to a professional. Talk to your parents, your best friend,
find somebody who will listen to what you have to say and then help you find
either a recovery program or a therapist.

Either way. Repeating the consequences of these disorders does not answer
her question. /rantover
 
pro-ana/mia sites

pro-ana/mia sites

All over the internet, there's websites for people, especially women (mostly young girls) to go to and look at pictures of anorexic individuals, called "thinspiration," there's also textual thinspiration, like "letters" from their "friend Ana" or "Mia." Right now the biggest proponent of "thinspo" seems to be tumblr. I feel like if I had not come across the "thinspo" when I was younger, I might not have been bulimic, or at least not to the same extent. These sites also give tips for how to be anorexic and/or bulimic, and how to keep it a secret from loved ones. I know it might be considered wrong to totally ban these types of sites, due to freedom of speech and press, but it would be fantastic if the government would try to make this "thinspiration" only available to those 18+, when hopefully, they're old enough to make a wise decision. I'd love to hear your opinions on the matter.
 
cityparis said:
All over the internet, there's websites for people, especially women (mostly young girls) to go to and look at pictures of anorexic individuals, called "thinspiration," there's also textual thinspiration, like "letters" from their "friend Ana" or "Mia." Right now the biggest proponent of "thinspo" seems to be tumblr. I feel like if I had not come across the "thinspo" when I was younger, I might not have been bulimic, or at least not to the same extent. These sites also give tips for how to be anorexic and/or bulimic, and how to keep it a secret from loved ones. I know it might be considered wrong to totally ban these types of sites, due to freedom of speech and press, but it would be fantastic if the government would try to make this "thinspiration" only available to those 18+, when hopefully, they're old enough to make a wise decision. I'd love to hear your opinions on the matter.
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**** that. I'd have them taken down regardless, it's absolutely disgusting that people actually promote eating disorders and encourage the youth to try them out. Though not all thinspiration blogs on tumblr are bad ones - some of them do offer some helpful tips like eating right, exercising, and providing things like clothes-shopping as motivation to do those things - it's the fact that negative ones exist and pressure younger people into attempting to develop eating disorders.

As I'm sure everyone in this thread already knows, no type of eating disorder is good for you under any circumstance. Why someone would intentionally and purposely wish to try this sort of thing and flaunt it about is beyond me (apart from those who're pressured, of course), considering that probably a lot of girls who have these disorders don't feel all that great about themselves even if they lose a lot of weight + it has many negative health effects to your body. (I am aware not all are pressured into certain eating disorders such as anorexia which can potentially be attributed to chemical imbalance within the brain).

I hope anyone who has any type of eating disorder tries their best to overcome it and take steps into going into recovery if not already there. You can do it, and you'll feel a lot better. xo
 
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