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Q: Just a Dream
asked by: BrokenButterfly on September 1st, 2005
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I've been struggling with this ed for long enough now and i'm so tired, tired of always wanting to lose weight, tired of never being able to, tired of always having to pretend that everthing is ok.
I had to take a year out from school last year and I am going back in two weeks to finish my final year and although my exams should be my biggest priroty they're not, losing weight is. Today I planned to start fresh and finally lose the weight I so despersalty need to lose and I have already failed. I wonder will I ever go back to the way I was? I just want to have the same body as I had before now. I used to be able to lose weight, it was the only thing I was good at and now I can't even do that. Tomorrow I am going to buy clothes for starting back at school and I am dreading it, I have to buy clothes and i'll see how big I am and it will kill me but I am hoping that it will inspire me to lose the weight i've so wanted to lose.
I know its not just about weight but for me its all I have left. I have spent so long wanting to die and my only reason for staying alive is to lose weight and if I can't do it then there really is no point. I know there are other ways and recovering is the better option but I just don't want to, i've never wanted to.
I have been going to therapy everyday for the past 10 months and still I have no want to recover, my life's ambition is to lose weight.
I just hope that tomorrow I will be able to start my plan and that everything will work out for me, the way I want it to. Of course you can have dreams of travelling and things like that but my dream, my only dream is to be thin and until then I cannot live, I cannot enjoy anything.
I hope to write soon and be happier about the way I look, I hope soon to write here and finally have my dream come true, until then I leave you and love you.

Take care all!

Xxx
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irishamethyst
replied on September 2nd, 2005
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Your post makes me sad. I know there is more to you than the ed, and the number on the scale. It's not always easy to be commited to recovery. I know for myself, there were many a time that I would have gladly given up on recovery, and succumbed to the ed.

When you are ready, and when you least expect it, change can and will happen. One day, you'll look back at this and wonder "how on earth did things get this way".

Sometimes it's necessary to go through the motions of recovery. Whether you realise it or not, things that are said do get through on some level, even if you don't believe them.

What would being thin mean to you? How does/would that define you?

I don't know if this has helped any, as the right words aren't forthcoming at the moment.
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irishamethyst
replied on September 2nd, 2005
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I guess what I was trying to say in my previous post, is that it's ok if you don't want to recovery just yet. Most people when they start going to therapy, at first don't want to change (not just ed's). The ed has been a comfort to you for so long, so why should you give it up. For me thriving for recovery is imporant, because I want to live and enjoy life, and get the most I can out of it. There is also, the small matter of me wanting to be a therapist some day.

Can you think about getting some funky clothes when clothes shopping, rather than worrying about the size etc. Just an idea...
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