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Q: What's Wrong With Me?
asked by: blackkittykatx6x on December 1st, 2004
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I weighed 130lbs, I hate my body I look fat, I want to weigh 110-115. For the past 2 weeks I have'nt been eating, some days I go without eating at all, and the rest i'll eat a bite or maybe 2 of something, and then after I eat a few bites I feel really really really sick like i'm going to throw up everywhere. I've lost about 5 pound so far, and i'll only let my self drink a glass of water. I just want to loose weight so bad. I just want to be perfect. I see all of these pretty girls on tv and models and stuff and they are gorgeous, flawless. I want to be like that. Crying or Very sad
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Yiassou
replied on December 1st, 2004
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The way your dieting is very very unhealthy and dangerous and is only a temporary solution. If you really want to lose some weight you have to do it the healthy way. Exercise every so often but no need to over do it. Eat the right foods get your protein intake get your carbs and the proper nutrition in your body. You need essential vitamins and minerals in your body to survive. All those combinations will give you energy help you think properly and will decrease your mood swings among other positive reasons. You should tell a friend or your doctor about this because there must be something else that's really bothering you aside from your weight.

These girls that are on tv and in magazines aren't as happy as you think! They bust their asses to get to that body weight. Most of them are unhappy but the only thing that keeps them going is the money they make or going out and doing drugs allnight in clubs just to get their mind off things. For the most part in magazines the girls are shaded in with make-up just so that they can look thinner than they really are or their bodies are altered by computer softwarel. No one is flawless!!

Don't get stuck in this cycle, an eating disorder is a dead end road that only leads to more and more misery.
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mshanson
replied on December 6th, 2004
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Crying or Very sad hi, i'm 42 years old and only now am I slowly getting over anorexia. I began, like you, hating my newly developing body at age 11 and wanting to diet down to skin & bones. Well, I succeeded --- have been hospitalized, institutionalized, tube-fed, went through a divorce, never could have kids (infertile because of no periods because of starvation). My bnes are as fragile as a very old lady's.
Do you really want that for yourself?
Laughing the good news is that I am finally getting better, am happily remarried with 2 great stepkids, am a yoga teacher who is strong & slim & eats well (extremely healthy & organic, but no more dieting).
It took me 30 years to get here. Why don't you so yourself a favor, stop trying to be 'perfect' and just concentrate on being healthy & happy with who you are? You only have one life (as far as we know) so don't waste it!
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behind_that_smile
replied on December 14th, 2004
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Re: What's Wrong With Me?
blackkittykatx6x wrote:
i weighed 130lbs, I hate my body I look fat, I want to weigh 110-115. For the past 2 weeks I have'nt been eating, some days I go without eating at all, and the rest i'll eat a bite or maybe 2 of something, and then after I eat a few bites I feel really really really sick like i'm going to throw up everywhere. I've lost about 5 pound so far, and i'll only let my self drink a glass of water. I just want to loose weight so bad. I just want to be perfect. I see all of these pretty girls on tv and models and stuff and they are gorgeous, flawless. I want to be like that. Crying or Very sad


you need to keep your metabolism going...So eating a really small portions for a few times a day will help....It's better to do that, than to starve yourself.... Eating steamed vegetables is good for you..I did that and I lost 45lbs over last summer....I mean i'm not in the position to tell you what to do, cuz i'm a bulimic, but before becoming that...I was able to control, and lose weight the healthy way..But I guess I went too far doing that....Good luck and take care!
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OutsideSizes
replied on December 15th, 2004
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Hey, I know how u feel- i've been up and down and up and down with weight, but I was never as thin as I am now...I lost over 40 lbs by restricting, and I weigh 105 which is at least 10 lbs under the "healthy" weight for my height, and almost 20 lbs lower if u take into acct my big bones.

So anyways, you will never feel think enuf- I know in my head that im too thin, I feel sick and I look sick and my friends and family are so worried, but I can't get it out of my head that if I lose a little more, just 5 more...Ill be soooo happy.

But only 3 or 4 months ago I was thinking "gee, if I was in the 120's i'd be ok with that", then it turned into 115, then 110 then 105 and now i'm always thinking, "well if I get down to 100 lbs, then maybe my things will finally be skinny enuf and I can wear a mini skirt and then i'll be really happy".

It sounds silly, right? I wish I could make myself stop
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ladymarmalade99
replied on December 24th, 2004
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I am so miserable, I want to be 105 lbs so much and I have big bones too. Lately i've noticed how unhappy I am all the time. Especially when I eat. When I restrict or starve I am happy. When I eat it's hell. I know I have an eating disorder but I know it's definitely not anorexia because i'm not skinny enough. I can lose and gain up to 10 lbs in 3 days but it's all water, I know. :( I am so unhappy.
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