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I fear i may have an eating disorder? |
Hi this is difficult to talk about but ove rthe past 2 years i've lost weight and i'm proud of it but over the last 6 months i have been wanting to get slimmer,now i would consider myself as fat even though people tell me i'm not , why would they , if someones fat people wouldn't say it would they, anyway i'm scared i might become anerexic if i continue with this obsessive exersizing and only focusing on my weight and not thinking about anything,i feel that if i ask for some kind of assurence now , then my obsession wont continue and i'll be fine my bmi sayd i'm not fat i'm normal but i see myself wanting to get below normal,its strange its this compulstion i have can anyone help me and tell me what to do note:i cant tell anyone i just want to settle this on my own thankyou xxxxxx Dear Kate, I think you should see someone that knows about these things. A doctor, or better a nutritionist or a psychologist specialized in eating disorders. Also, try to get distracted, see friends, enjoy life and find a challenge that is more constructive than controlling what you eat, which is not healthy. I had anorexia when nobody in my country (Italy) knew what it was and it took me a long time to get over it. I reached the weight of 35 kg (about 85lb or 6 stones) and saw myself fat. I was counting all the calories I was eating and trying to eat less and less. Strangely, I still had the energy to swimm for 1 hour every day and I passed my final school exams with merit. Except that I collapsed afterwards... Twenty years from there, I still feel like eating is an issue and I feel upset if I put on weight. I tried to sort this out on my own, as I didn麓t have a lot of confidence in psychologists, but I think it was a mistake. Email me if you want to chat Love and good luck. x If you are obsessing about you weight and you have a distorted view of your body then I would say you are at risk of becoming anorexic. Please remember that the reasons for developing anorexia are not to do with food. Its all about control. Do you feel out of control in other areas of your life? If you BMI is within the normal ranges then you are obviously not overweight and have nothing to worry about. But to be honest its not as easy as someone telling you that you are not fat, you have to believe it yourself. I suggest going to your doctor before things get any worse because if you cant get over this illness by yourself (most people cant), then it could kill you. sorry to be so blunt but its true. I hope you manage to work things out. I'll be thinking of you. By chosing not to tell anyone and to settle this on your own, you are removing something really important from your thought process here and that is the perspective that other people's thoughts and opinions can give you. The other thing you are missing out on is factual information. I really think you should speak to a doctor or a at least a nutritional health specialist so that you can find out some facts about healthy body weight, recommended diets and exercise regimes and how to deal with something that is obviously becoming traumatic for you. We are all too subjective to be really and truly dispassionate when thinking about our own bodies, please seek someone's help and advice. We always seem to have a distorted image of what we look like when we look in the mirror. The problem happens on both ends of the continuum. When a person is skinny and looks at theirselves in the mirror alot of times our perception is that we are not skinny enough. At the other end, alot of guys who take steroids look at theirselves in the mirror and their perception is that they are not big enough. So basically if you are starving yourself then you have a problem. A general rule of thumb is to be consuming 15 calories per pound. For example, if you weight 150 currently and want to weight 140, you should aim to consume 2,100 calories (140*15 calories). These calories should be spread throughout the day in 5-7 small meals. You may not have one now but it may develop into something more serious. You say you have a normal BMI - good. But please look at those horrendously skinny female celebrities - sooooo ugly, it looks really unhealthy. Do you really want to get any thinner? I think adrenaline is addictive - if you are obsessively exercising, you'll be damaging your muscles. And listen to your friends when they say you are not fat. I lost weight through illness once and it took me a while to achieve my normal weight again. I feel much better for it - when I was underweight, I often felt weak, my skin was dull and I didn't seem to have any energy reserves. There's a reason there's a happy medium for your weight. Why can't you speak to anyone? I think you need to, before it goes too far. I have the same issues as you. Although, I'm not anorexic but bulimic. Well, I flitter between months of extreme dieting and months of binge eating then purging. I don't want to be like this, but also I would rather be like it than be fat. I am quite slim but have a need to always be thinner. I'm probably not in a position to give you any advice but just to let you know that you are not alone :) I've struggled with anorexia for years and I feel like I'm reading what I used to say!! I'm sorry to tell you, it's EXTREMELY difficult to "settle" it on your own. It just gets worse and worse. It's as addicting and deadly as any drug. I am only 26 and have had 2 heart attacks and a stroke. At my thinnest, my hair was falling out in huge clumps, I was always freezing, my ribs stuck out further than my boobs, etc. It's not a pretty disease. But if you don't want to get counseling or anything, check out the EDA websites or ANAD. They offer very effective, free, confidential support groups for eating disorders. It's good you want to get help and recognize you ahve a problem, but you need outside help. I guarantee you it will only get worse if you don't. In the meantime, if you have a scale, get rid of it. That's the first thing any treatment center will tell you. Limit yourself to exercising just 30-40 minutes every day, instead of hours if that's what you're doing now. Good luck. |
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