My name is Amanda. I'm 21years old, and I'm new to this so here it goes. I've always remembered being unsatisfied with my weight, but for the past two months I've been obsessed with it. I have been taking an appitite suppresant to help with what started out to be a cutting calories diet. Well it has now turned into cutting food out all together. <deleted> I have lost around 28lbs in one month, I just think that I might be starting to become too obsessive. <deleted> Inside I know something isnt right about the way this is headed. I can't talk to anyone around me. I am hiding everything from the people who love me, I usually make excusses not to eat, etc. I fear that they are starting to catch on and I wont dare let them in. If you have any advise on this issue I could really use some help. Thankyou very much.
~Amanda

28 lbs in one months needs IMMEDIATE HELP. Please see and ED specialist or go to a clinic or hospitial immediately. One lb a day is what happens when someone is dying... Unless you eat nothing and drink very little water you should not be losing 1 lb a day...

Are you making yourself throw up?? I couldn't really understand if you were or not.

You are at risk of being seriously dehydrate and dying of malnutrition. Please believe me when I say this. My gradma died of starvation, literally, in the hospital when she dropped about 35 lbs in a month...(not from anorexia, but an illness)...

Are you very underweight now??

P.S. That appetite suppressant is dangerous.

No I'm not underweight, the suppresant gives me endless energy i basically drink water and run, ive always been able to run. I asked my family doctor about the rapid weight loss and although he doesn't know how I'm loosing it he didn't seem as alarmed as you. I don't feel sick. Just always thirsty.

No I'm not underweight, the suppresant gives me endless energy i basically drink water and run, ive always been able to run. I asked my family doctor about the rapid weight loss and although he doesn't know how I'm loosing it he didn't seem as alarmed as you. I don't feel sick. Just always thirsty.

I totally agree with Natasha. A healthy weight loss is considered 2 lbs a week. See someone with ED knowledge immediately.

No I'm not underweight, the suppresant gives me endless energy i basically drink water and run, ive always been able to run. I asked my family doctor about the rapid weight loss and although he doesn't know how I'm loosing it he didn't seem as alarmed as you. I don't feel sick. Just always thirsty.

You are thirsty because you are dehydrated. You said you aren't eating, and you are taking diet pills and running...this is the recipe for disaster. Any doctor who isn't alarmed with a 1 lb per day weight loss is not a good doctor..I am sorry, but its true. If my docs saw me on the 1st of the month and on the 30th I had lost 30 lbs, they would be horrified!! A drug that gives you endless energy even though you are not eating is going to make you have a physical collapse. That is what happens when someone takes speed or cocaine. Please understand this is serious.

No I'm not underweight, the suppresant gives me endless energy i basically drink water and run, ive always been able to run. I asked my family doctor about the rapid weight loss and although he doesn't know how I'm loosing it he didn't seem as alarmed as you. I don't feel sick. Just always thirsty.

Many doctors would not be too alarmed because the majority of them know very LITTLE about eating disorders. Some of them even when you tell them you are anorexic or bulimic just look at you with a blank stare. The reason the suppresant gives you energy is because it is an upper, a type of speed and be aware that it is also addictive. The reason for the thirst as someone else mentioned is dehydration. You asked us if it sounds to us like you are starting an eating disorder and it does sound that way. It also sounds like you are still enjoying it and not ready to stop. But be forewarned that once you get deep into an eating disorder it is EXTREMELY difficult to get out. You think it's great now but before long you will know it's your worst enemy.

Please get help before yours turns into the monster I know it will.
Tiffany