Anyone with an eating disorder?

When I was young I used to skip meals and eat candy instead, and now I'm sometimes tempted to stop eating, to stay thin, but it's not really worth it.

The thing is that now I can't eat sugar, or starches, or chemicals, so basically I can never eat my favorite foods again, and I get so angry and short-tempered about it, that I get to the point where I want to do something drastic, so that my parents will notice that this diet thing has got me so worked up.
Right now they don't even notice how much effort it takes me to stay away from all those foods, and they haven't said anything encouraging or thoughtful to me, unless you count eating cake in front of me as encouraging.

-beth

eating disorders are very hard times to go through. Best advice I can give you, is to stay positive and eat the food according to instructions.

um kind of, about two weeks ago the school threatened to send me to hospital because they were worried so ive cooled off, but i am still dieting and they are still on my back but the thing is that i am not hungry and a lot of food makes me feel like throwing up, but its not an eating disorder as such, just an intense diet.

No, i do not have an eating disorder, but i know someone who did and is still suffering from the consequences. My advice to you all, ur perfect the way you are, try to remember it. I know for a fact that that friend of mine still to this day watches what she eats, and is scared of putting on weight, and madly she doesnt believe that she is completely stunning and perfect. Eating disorders ruin ur life and ur mates lives, too.
~Georgi

kori, hold on a sec, it aint "ridiculous" anorexia and bullemia are forms of self harm...did u know tht? Something caused by emotional pain. like self harmers......people with eating disorders are coping with their emotional stress in a way they think is right and i dont think u have the right to judge them.

You can't see it as "ridiculous" when you have an eating disorder. You are so far in over your head and what your doing makes sense to you and thats all that matters.

I don't have an eating disorder but I know my behaviour towards food is ucontrollable and unhealthy. You can't just switch off your brain and say ok after months of seeing someone obese in the mirror suddenly see someone thin.

You don't know what your doing to yourself. You know where I am Ash if you need to talk.

I know a LOT of ballerinas with serious eating disorders.
You see, in ballet to stay thin they have to practically not eat anything, because the kind of body they want cannot be achieved naturally, through skipping the junk foods and sticking to the good, wholesome ones, so what they do is quench their hunger with coke, cigarettes and the occasional lolly and eat salads when necessary, but basically they'll eat less than one sandwich a day, and the rest is just sugar and liquids.
They usually don't get so drastic until they've been in ballet for about four or five years, but by the time they get accepted from a school into a theater, they're almost anorexic, if not completely anorexic, or bulimic.
I might as well mention that they have a pretty short career, and when they grow old, they grow fat, because their bodies can't keep up to their diet of sugar, coffee and cigarettes forever.

-beth

yeah can i just say that i turned to dieting and all that not just because i wanted to be skinnier but because i can control it, which i have finally accepted, and i liked it.
im still dieting and if i eat too much i throw up but im not actually anorexic/bulimic, all i am saying is that i can understand the feelings.

Yes, I'm bulimic, have been for almost 1 year...still no one can help me, tryed everything and nothing works!!..

if you know your bulimic, can you not stop? i know that if i thought i had an eating disorder then i would hate it .x.

"I know a LOT of ballerinas with serious eating disorders.
You see, in ballet to stay thin they have to practically not eat anything"

My friend's 9 year old cousin is TINY, like stick thin, and her ballet teacher told her she couldn't do the classes anymore because she was fat. This girl is really skinny naturally and her ballet teacher called her fat.

"if you know your bulimic, can you not stop? i know that if i thought i had an eating disorder then i would hate it .x."

If you cut, can you not just stop? It's not that easy. It's an addiction and a disorder.

yeah i guess we are all different all i know is that i stopped when i realised i had an eating disorder. i found it different to cutting because you know you cut, you can't deny that, but if you are anorexic you are in denial.
it took a nurse at the hospital where they were treating my best friend for me to realise, and my body is still adapting after over a month. if i eat more than one meal a day i throw up so im eating a salad a day and i am putting on weight.

it is a disease and remember people love you so don't be afraid to ask for help.x.

I am anorexic/bulimic and it is slowly destroying my life. I can no longer control it. It controls me and I just can't stop. I sometimes want to eat, but just can't. Im mostly anorexic but sometimes have times of bulimia where i binge because my life is screwed up. I know I have an ED, but, strange as it may sound, I don't want to stop. I don't want help. But I would also say to anyone who may be developing an ED, get out while you can. It can destroy your life, make you fail in school, and make you lose your friends because pretty soon the only thing that matters is the ED.
-Sami

I don't like to eat. I don't call myself anorexic, but my friend who knows I don't eat says I'm anorexic. I don't think so... or I'm in denial. I have made myself throw up a few times. I guess you can say I have eating disorders.

~ Tina

Hmm yeah..me I guess?
I don't eat..cos it makes me soo sick! lol

i know because i had one and i had a relapse the day before yesterday. itx not a voice in my head at all its the figure i saw before me every time i looked in a mirror it got so hard i stopped looking at my reflection, i never went out because i hated changing rooms and shop windows, i took all mirrors from my room and i ran when photographs were taken.

and whoever it was who said that they must be in denial well if you know you're in denial, thenyou're not in it.

im still seeing a counsellor who says i havent got out of it though im sure i have. i havent told her about the fact i binged out the other day and threw up and i tell her i eat more but its only because i hate her judging me and telling me how to live.

okay, no board bashing please. yes, i know some of these eating disorders... for me, i ... well, sometimes i just dont want to eat, but more than that, i dont drink enough. maybe one, two cups a day but that's it. i'll usually have something dry and thats the rest. some days i could overeat as well. it's weird. lately i've just been on a dangerous diet and am considering starving myself because it's useless if my dad steals all my food. yes, my DAD steals MY food before i can eat it. i dont know how to eat right anyway... oh well. any diets i go on dont help me lose pounds even if i look thinner. it's my forking bones...

i want a counsellor!!! :( i want someone who will be like a mentor w/o pressure.

"Im sorry but you all need to eat and get it over with. If you get fat and ugly when you eat well guess what that was meant to be."
WAT??
ok..eating disorders, aren't triggered by "o i wana be thin"...
often it's like the only thing that they can control. The intake of food.
Read Bronte's Story...you'll get an image of what anorexia exactly is once you've read that.
I hate it when ppl say "just get over it..eat"..
it really isn't that easy.

Good luck to all those people suffering from an eating disorder and im here for neone who wants to talk, also from experience.

Just Rain..no pressure here hun..
take care all xoxoxo

whoever it was you can have my counsellor because i hate it i can see the look in her eyes and now she is trying to tell me to eat and tell me about my life. doesnt she understand that i began because i could control it, i wasnt chubby, let alone fat, and no one can understand it. im not thick, im averagely pretty and am pretty rich, good friends etc do i have any problems? no.
but it seemed the only thing i could control and every day i resent the fact she's trying to change me and i eat less. right now i havent eaten for 48 hours except for coffee, water and an apple.

if anyone wants to talk then just grab me xXx

yea im bulimic but im not rly sure y...i dont do it bc i want to lose weight or anything i just do it...its almost an impulse like somthing i do automatically not bc i want to. i feel like my body has come accustumed to it and i just do it like my body makes me breath to keep me alive it almost feels like it makes me throw up to keep me alive.i know that sounds rly bad but thats how it has become bc i can stop but then somhow i always end up doing it again and i always find myself asking y am i doing this but never quite knowing y or how i brought myself to it..trust me i know its bad and i really am trying to quit but somthing always pulls me back to it

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i agree. people with eating disorders aren't any different than anyone else. i used to be bulimic and anorexic. in fact, half the girls in my school are. i don't think its right for you to come on here when someone is asking and honest question and you say those things...thats just wrong..

for your information Delta sniper...just because someone starves themselves doesn't mean there a bag of bones...i had an eating disorder for 3 and a 1/2 years and i kept my weight at 108...and stopping is really hard, for bulimia...once you do it for a long time it comes up on its own, if you have never had a disorder than you can't talk.

I'm still battling an eating disorder today...it's hell.

I'm very sorry about all of you who suffer from an eating disorder. I have seen what anorexia nervosa has done to my friends in the ballet theater, and I know that it must be very difficult, as well as painful.

If one of you can give me five REALLY GOOD reasons to not develop an eating disorder, for whatever reason, I will never consider it again.

And I mean REALLY good.

-beth

five REALLY GOOD reasons?

you can only think of reasons after you develop one and by then its too late.
you can never listen to someone else because you cannot even begin to comprehend what they have been through.
It would be like trying to describe a sunset to someone who has always been blind.
Impossible.
xXx

i guess im not really anorexic but when im depressed i either stop eating or eat a lot

when im not depressed though, i don't really eat meals (like half of it?) and i have cookies or junkfood instead, then when i feel fat i stop cut all the junk food and only eat 1/4 of meals

maybe im somewhat of an anorexic? but i'm kind of weird, its hard for me to gain weight, and easy for me to lose weight, and i'm still like this

I do.

uhm grade 8 i made my self throw up for about a month or so. and then in grade 9 i starved myself for a couple of weeks and then this year i started throwing up again, i took the step to get a councellor before it turned into anythying. we are trying buyt my weight is such an obsession i weigh myself like5 times a day i check nutrition facts and even talking about it now makes me feel fat.

I'm not sure if i have a eating disorder or not. I'm pretty sure i do, so do my parents and friends. Yet, the thing is i've been going through this my whole life. I've always been skinny and "anoexic looking" as people so kindly put it. All my life i've been called "a stick" "a toothpick" "A pole" "Anorexic" and frankly i hate it....but i guess your get use to it. I don't eat very much i guess. Well at least not right now. A couple years ago i use to eat alot...mostly junk food though...i still eat junk food, its what i live on lol. But lately, for the past couple months, i haven't eaten. I just don't knwo why, i'm starting to eat less and less and i can't help it. I just don't feel hungry anymore and no matter how hard i try to force myself to eat, i can't.

I think my friends and family are starting to notice this now. My parents are now starting to call be anoxeric( wonderful eh?..jeez) and saying that i'll land myself hospital one day and they won't be the ones paying for my "gettin better". They just don't understand i can't eat.

I mean i'm not worried about my weight or anythin, and i don't check how much fat a food has. (hell i've been eating fatting and junk foods all my life...but i just stay the same) But lately i'm starting to be worried (only a lil) bout how much, or lack there of i'm eating.

I just feel as if i'm always full and if i eat i'll explode. I think its because i've been depressed lately and other things. *sigh* sorry i'm ranting on and on here lol i shall stop now.

SO to answer this posts question, i think i do have a eating disorder....
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~Chica~