Am i anorexic?
You are on the thin side of average for your height. You are far from fat. You do not weigh a lot, and a specific weight doesn't make you anorexic. Anorexia is an obsession with weight that leads to unhealthy restricting of calories and often occurs with body dysmorphia. It sounds like you do have an eating disorder. I recommend getting professional help to try to overcome this. The way anorexia makes you think will have you believe you are never skinny enough. You will always see the fat and not the overall picture until you are conditioned otherwise. Please get help, you sound like a very sweet and beautiful girl who just needs a little help.
Can you be 300 pounds and anorexic? I've already lost weight by not eating a lot.?
I heard that the whole starvation mode is blown out of proportion and I really wont gain weight by eating only 200-800 calories a day. I'm on a new medication that helps me stop eating ( i use to be a binge eater which is how I got to be so big). I've always been big my whole entire life and now I think if I exercise at least an hour a day and eat 800 or less a day I can lose the weight. There are many days where I seriously don't want food, I hate it! I mainly just drink protein shakes that are less than 200 calories. I eat some greens but not a lot. I've already lost 10 pounds! I was wondering if I should keep going since i'm losing weight but at the same time I feel like I'm obsessing over it and becoming anorexic! My friends are even saying something about how I need to eat but I just don't want to at all. I hate my body, I think it's the most disgusting thing on the planet! I know people say you will slowly kill yourself by starving but I'm over 300 pounds, how can I kill myself? Won't my body just use up all the fat as energy? I use to weigh a whole lot more, like almost 400 pounds and lost almost 100 with the lapband but had to stop because the lapband was making me physically ill and I didn't have health insurance to keep up with visits. Do you think I'm on the board line of being anorexic like my friends think? I don't think I can be, I'm to big!
My girlfriend is suffering from anorexia and she won't stop how do I help/save her?
Firstly I just wanted to say what a great boyfriend you sound like - caring and loving, really you do, so your girlfriend is very lucky to have you. You sound like you really want to help and understand her at a time when she really needs that, especially as her parents sound like they aren't doing much for her. Dropping that much weight... wow, can't they see she needs help? In future be a bit wiser over your words with them, I know why you said all that to them but they sound touchy, at least you know now anyway. I'm not sure what else you can do to help your girlfriend other than get her a mental health act assessment to see if she is really a risk to herself. Other than that I'm so sorry but I'm not sure what you can do, not being her parent. Be there, encourage her to talk. I am so sorry for what you are going through. Good luck.
Can someone be "almost" anorexic?
I was “almost” anorexic, for ages.From the age of 10, I started noticing my fatty thighs, or how I was larger than the other girls. Not by much, only a little bit. But I still saw it.From the age of 11, I got called ugly, and fat, and told by my mother “if you keep eating, you’ll get fat,” and so I decided, I wasn’t going to eat.From the age of 12, I still ate, I didn’t really think much of what I was eating or anything like that, but I didn’t love my body, if I’m honest. I had baby fat, lots of it.From the age of 13, that’s where things went downhill. I lied to my friends about eating, made them think I was okay, only one person knew how much I ate, and he was worried sick. Doubt he’s reading this but hey, if you are, sorry mate.I went on and off with it, don’t eat, eat, don’t eat, eat.Eventually I stopped lying about it, and everyone* knew I had a problem. I was forcing myself to throw up. I was barely eating. I dropped from 45KG to 37.It got bad again in August, and I hid it from my then boyfriend, until after we broke up, and then he found out. I don’t think he really cared though, to be honest.From December 2017, it was bad. Really bad.I delighted in not eating for 48 hours before Christmas Day, and ate only a minimal amount, unable to enjoy myself, food on my mind constantly.I kept books of how much I ate, and this is one of the entries;Yet, I was still sort of convinced I didn’t have a problem. “Eh, it’s not that big of a deal, I’ll be fine,” I remember saying that, I remember it so clearly.And then, here we are at age 14.I’m not anorexic anymore, I’m really not. Sure, sometimes I don’t eat as much as I should, or I complain about my belly fat.But I don’t starve myself, and I’m not border-lining a trip to the hospital, as my mother often put it.I weigh about 48KG now, which is healthy for my height, and I couldn’t be happier.*everyone being my online friends. I kept it hidden from everyone in real life.
How can I become anorexic?
I used to want anorexia, just so I could be skinny. Just so I could lose weight.I wanted it; until I got it.I stopped eating almost entirely, I became obsessed with counting my calories, and with exercising. If I had more than 400 calories a day I would go on at least 2 runs, and drink a fuckton of water.I would chew gum to keep myself from feeling hungry. I felt weak all the time. I got into fights with my mum over how much I was eating. I bruised easily, scars were vibrant.My body was shutting down.I lost 10 kilograms. I slept all the time. My grades were slipping, my concentration gone.Food was constantly on my mind, in my dreams. I would bake a lot of stuff, and never eat it, I’m still not sure why.I wanted to walk down that path, and so I did.And I wish I never did. It’s so hard to recover, so, so hard. A lot of the thoughts still float around in my head, when I look in the mirror, when I go to take another bite.You don’t want to walk down that path, I promise. Please don’t.
Relationship advice? Anorexic girlfriend.?
I know what your girlfriend is going through, because I have an eating disorder, myself. And I have to say, that you seem like the most amazing partner ever, because you actually care so much about getting your girlfriend healthier. I hope she realizes how much you have gone through with her. Anyway, this is a time in which she needs you the most. Of course it's exhausting, and you are doing the right thing by getting yourself some help, because I can imagine it must be very stressful sitting by and watching your lover harm herself like this. But you must understand, eating disorders are a life-long battle. It's a mental illness, and even when she gets to a point where she can eat normally and get through her meals, she's always going to have to fight to stay that way. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication to get through an eating disorder. And if there's one thing I can tell you, it's that your girlfriend is not going to get better unless she wants to herself. You can sit there and pour out your heart to her, but it won't help unless she makes the decision for herself. So, what I suggest, if you haven't already, is get her to an eating disorder clinic somewhere. I'm sure you can find one in your area by searching online. If you haven't done this already, then I recommend it, because that way, it gives you time to sort out your feelings while she is away at the center for eating disorders, and she is in the hands of professionals who watch her and show her how to eat normally and how to feel better about food and her feelings. And you would still be able to call her and visit her, and let her know you are STILL being supportive, still thinking of her, and wanting her to be better. I think you need to sit down and have this conversation with her and let her know exactly how you feel. Tell her exactly what you said here, about how you've seen this disorder damage her. She may or may not want to do this, and if she makes a big deal out of it by not wanting to go, then simply tell her you are going home to take some time to yourself and let her calm down. It seems you have done a great deal for this girl, so now you need to do some things for yourself. If you can get her to go to the clinic, then use that time to relieve your stress. Do things you enjoy doing, relax and calm down, but still be there for her.
Do I have a mild form of anorexia?
No. they starve themselfs. i mean eating zero