i dont know if this is normal but i want to be anorexic and i want to be really skinny please i think i need help

not normal, go to the doc, and see if they can set up something, so u can lose weight, but not anorexic.

anorexia is not a good thing! u can be hospitalized for it also.

Please have a read of some of the messages on this board, and just see how much eating disorders have ruined most of our lives, and then think very careful. It is perfectly possible to lose weight healthily, please do not risk your health like that. What is making you feel like you want to be anorexic?
Take care
xx

i dont know if this is normal but i want to be anorexic and i want to be really skinny please i think i need help


Anorexia isn't just being skinny. It's losing friends, finding too much hair in the shower, having scratchy skin that's too dry, not being able to go to meals with friends or family, obsessing over calories and food, becoming anemic, being so weak that taking a shower sounds stressful, your fingernails break all the time, you can't concentrate on much of anything, and believe me, skinny is not worth it. I would give my right arm to instantly gain weight and be relativly happy with who I am and my size. Guys don't like skinny girls. They want something to grab onto- a number of guys have told me this, as if it would make me feel better. If you feel that you need to lose weight, first evaluate why, and then if you decide to, choose a healthy way that doesn't abuse your body. I forgot to mention the dental problems ($$$$), and that the odds of an anorexic having kids even after recovering, are hurt tremendously by the damage done to your body earlier.



-tt

chlosome- i understand how u feel..honest..........but...coming on this board asking for THAT sort of help is obviously going to get you nowhere......this board is support for people trying to overcome EDs...not start them hon!
If you want to lose weight, then seek some advice and do it healthily. All you are going to get toiling with anorexia is dangerous consequences.
Also, losing weight the 'healthy' way makes u feel good...anorexia never gives u that satisfaction!!! Trust us.....dont go there!

:DXxCarolinexX:D

i dont know if this is normal but i want to be anorexic and i want to be really skinny please i think i need help

Chlosome
I want to let you know that I can hear what you are saying but think twice. I want to tell you how this started for me. It started a year ago when I got really anxious and depressed (not sure what triggered it) and I lost my appetite. Now that is a normal symptom for me. But I lost 35lbs and really liked it. Granted when I started losing I was 185 or so, so I could stand to lose some weight. But what happened was I started to continue not eating even when my appetite came back because I was afraid I would gain weight. I started freaking out and a friend suggested I go to weight watchers to learn how to eat healthy. So I did, and it helped. I made a goal weight with them for 140lbs and really stuck to it. I stuck to it so much that I became obsessed with the program, calories, going over the number of points I was alotted for the day, going out to eat and not knowing exactly what was in the food I was eating. So I kept losing, I am now between 127 and 131. I'm not underweight, but I'm not doing much to make it stop. Even though there is a part of me that wants to. There is a bigger part that makes it so hard for me to even fathom eating fast food, or restaurant food, or even chips or something like that. There are some foods I have deemed as "safe". I have found that it's a huge battle to even stay between the 127-131. Once I hit 131 I start to lose because I'm afraid to gain. I am 5'6" and shouldn't weight less than 124 minimum. So I'm playing with the scales. So please, try and seek out some help, a therapist, dietician, someone. Weight watchers really is a good program as long as you don't get too obsessed. But I would suggest some other help to deal with your desire to be anorexic and then maybe get a plan going for you to lose weight, if you need to.

Lauren :wave:

i don't think u choose anorexic I think it chooses u....

Heya,

I just wanted to add, you don't mention how old you are. If you are a younger teenager then your body won't have finished developing and going on any sort of diet may harm your growth.

Also, just to back up what other people are saying. There is a wide belief that anorexia is just being skinny. Its not. As ttrockwood said, there are other aspects to it as well. It damages you mentally, it damages you inside and majorly harms the chances of you having children. Would you really want to risk all that just to be thinner?

Love Emily x x x

In a sense, I am sort of relieved (and extremely frightened for you) to hear someone say that they are looking towards anorexia. Here's my story. For about 4 years (one of which severe) I was rarely eating. At some point (based on a string of actual happy events and self control) I got better (as better as you can get I guess) But I guess I became too comfortable...I slid all the way from one extreme to the other and was overeating...or at least gained more weight than I had EVER wanted to...merely because I had stopped obsessing and paying attention. For a long time, and still recently, I found myself WISHING i could have the "self-control" that I used to. How sick is it that I've actually concidered it a form of CONTROL to be anorexic. It's liek I don't even remember how horrible it was back then. And now, still once in a while I'll stop eating for a couple of days... In a sense it's as if I need to fall once in a while to realize what I'm doing and that I am physically healthy again.

To clue you in on what I concidered "getting better" a few lines above: Once I started college, 4 years ago, I started drinking ALOT, as most people do in college. Well, those nights of drinking made me throw up...every time. That was how I justified the calories and whatnot in alcohol, because i was technically binging and purging involentarily. Now, I don't drink nearly as often or as much, but I find myself ANGRY when I don't get sick at night or the morning after... like all of that is still inside of me. Its insane... and at least i know that I guess....

I guess what I am trying to say is that even now.. even 8 or 9 years after it all started, i'm still a mess sometimes. Its not something to concider, its not something to envy, and its definately not something to over look. Whether you are or aren't eating right now, you obviously have something inside of you lingering and dwelling on your weight or physical appearence or issues of control... before it gets to a point where you have to ask for advice on how to begin eating again, get some help hunny. Find other ways to make yourself happy...any other route, because this one never leads to happiness.

take care. and good luck.