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By: Tammy

Tammy — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:25:02 +0000

I have a 14 year old daughter suffering from anorexia. It breaks my heart watching her suffer. It all started when she was 12, after bringing her to the doctor for two months because her weight was dropping and she wouldn’t eat much. The doctor sent us to the hospital for tests and they admitted her that day. I didn’t notice the three layers of clothes she had on that day. She was 12 and did all her personal care on her own. She was skipping meals and throwing away her lunches at school. I feel like I am on a wave, and I want off. My daughter started high school, I noticed her looking thin. She started throwing away her lunch at school because she was stressed out (she says). I have her on ensure again to get her weight up.(I weigh her every couple months but I can tell buy her attitude when she is down in weight) Does this ever end?

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By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:37:03 +0000

I don’t know whether I count as anorexic, exactly, but I definitely have issues with food, and I don’t know how to get over it. I’ve always been a little underweight, and I always get shit about it at home. My mom always tries to push food on me. The thing is, I’m aware that I’m underweight, so I often try to push food on myself. Especially junk food. I eat way too much junk food, and tell myself it’s good for me because I need to gain weight. But then I feel really sick because I’ve eaten so much junk food. So then I can’t eat normally. Like hate when my mom pushes extra food on me at dinner because she doesn’t realize how much crap I ate earlier. It’s a really unhealthy cycle. I’m also really stressed out about my future and about some things that happened in my past. And I eat as a way of dealing with stress. It’s like my life revolves around food. How do I go back to normal?

p.s. Yeah, it feels good just to say this. I’ve never told anyone any of this. It’s too fucked up, and everyone thinks I’m basically fine.

By: stubborn

stubborn — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:23:32 +0000

hi,
i am wondering-and severly stressing-about my metablolism after starving myself during bouts of aneorexia. now that i am eating- i dont have as much as anyone around me yet i still seem to put on weight-despite exercising a lot. will i always just haev to eat less as my body has learnt to run on little energy? im scared ill just keep putting more and more weight on and i dont understand why everyone seems to eat so much more and stay the same size. does anyone find this prob? or have any suggestions? the only thing i can think of is to see a nutritionist but i would love to avoid the expense.

thanks for any thoughts or comments at all!

By: Sofie

Sofie — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:47:20 +0000

Hey Jess,
Totally understand how you feel.
I too felt that people didn’t understand how hard it was to start eating normal amounts again, and i can understand how you think that it’s unfair that everyone just expects you to get better now you have help! I was in a similar situation as my parents thought that once i was seeing people the problem would go away in a few weeks.
The best advice i can give you is to keep going with it anyway. The first time you realise you’ve gained weight will be scary, probably even the second time, however as you go on it gets better and you stress out about it less. I’ve been eating properly for about half a year now and i’m back to the weight that i was before i started. I can guarantee you that though you might feel bloated and stuff when you first start, it gets alot better over time! Stick with it and eventually (though it’ll be a hard road to tread!) you’ll learn to be comfortable with the weight you gain and you won’t feel bloated when you eat.
Another piece of advice i would give you is to be honest with the people around you (ie, your mother). Try to have an honest discussion with her about the fact that you think that she is part of the problem. You’ll find that she probably just wants the best for you and has misunderstood how you’ve reacted to her.
I’m glad you realise that you CAN gain weight without becoming ‘fat’. Your aim to become ‘healthy’ is great. Keep on going with trying to eat more and more every day over time you’ll become more confident with your body.
Most importantly of all, don’t give up! Try to think of some really important reason’s that you want to start eating again (personal ones, not ones that others tell you!) and keep that in mind every time you hesitate in putting a piece of food into your mouth.
And don’t worry about ending up “bloated and miserable”, though theres a period where you won’t be happy about gaining weight and will definately feel bloated, it gets better and soon you’ll find everything getting slightly better. For me, i found that my mood increased dramatically, my hair started shining again, i lost a whole heap of the pimples on my face, i started sleeping again (i had horrible insomnia) and people commented on how much more confident i seemed.
I wish you all the best!

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:32:27 +0000

First of all, it is REALLY nice to look at this site because it’s nice to see that other people feel the same way as me, and a lot of times I don’t have the words to describe what I am feeling, and this site provides me with those means of description.
I am only 15 years old and therefore I’m not entirely sure about the criteria for posting on this site, but when I was 11 or 12 I began to purge any food I would put in my body because I became terrified of gaining weight due to puberty. My family is naturally underweight, and I was born into this tradition, and I usually ate as I pleased – I don’t remember much about previous eating habits. Once I started to purge my food, I didn’t really notice a significant weight loss, and after a year or so I stopped and I recovered for about two years.
Then, about thrree months ago, I got sick with a cold and I didn’t eat much. I noticed that I was losing the weight I had gained from those previous two years of recovery, in which I had become a normal weight which in my eyes (and in my family’s eyes, may I point out) was “fat.” I discovered that I didn’t want to eat whenever food was put in front of me, although I would spend horus pining and obsessing over it. I went from 48 kg to 38 kg in two months.
Although my mom is a part of the problem, she does care about me and can’t see that she is a part of the problem, and she took me to the doctor. I was given blood tests and set up in an eating disorder treatment program, complete with dietitian, psychologist, and doctor. I am currently in this program and have been for a month now.
I’d like to say first off of the bat that anorexia is often portrayed as quite a positive thing. Although I would love to tell you all that I do not feel superior to other people and I hate anorexia, I don’t. I hate having the label and I absolutely hate being monitored, however I take pleasure in seeing how other people can’t resist food and I love seeing skinny girls and knowing I am as thin as they are. Anorexia is portrayed positively throughout the media, which people here tons of bullshit about constantly, however, anorexia is also portrayed very positively through “real people” on sites such as tumblr and flickr – i used to see pictures of really skinny, gorgeous vintage girls all of the time that were so beautiful in the photographs and these were half of the trigger for my anorexia for me.
Anyway, I am currently working towards getting better. In TOTAL and complete 10000000% agreement with the comments above me, it feels to me like a lot of people are just excpecting me to get better. WIthin a week of my professional diagnosis my dietitian gave me a list of foods to eat in a day and upped my caloric intake by about 2000 calories so that I could gain back the weight I have lost. She gets angry when I do not eat what she gives me some days, and I think it is so stupid how she just assumes this is hard but i can overcome it so quickly. I have quite a large fear of becoming like the girls on here; bloated and miserable because everyone is forcing them to gain weight. I really do hope that there is a possible way for me to feel healthy and be healthy without being fat.
I will follow up again some day, I’m sorry this was so long! It felt nice to get this off my chest. I want to get better from this eating disorder, I really do, but I wish that the people trying to fix me were not going about it in such a way. I really hope someone understands me

By: Yensterzz

Yensterzz — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:25:05 +0000

well some of these things i do…i still to young to do the last one hehehehe
…anyways im really young and in my growing age,i think i became anorexia because of my orriginal goal that was to become slim for someone,but then in the end my feelings were gone for that someone but i still kept on my diet, i lost about 40 pounds and then as i noticed i kept losing and losing more,i was even hospitalized for dehydrate and for an inflamed small intestine,after i got out (they said i was ok,i was just dehydrated) my mom brought me to a psychotherapist who told e to take this med. call remeron soltab…tsk