Okay, so i'm a ballet dancer, and it's extremely difficult to be dancing pre-professionally and to be bigger than all the other girls in the company. I've always felt disgusting compared to them, so I decided to go on a diet about a month and a half ago. Now, at 120 pounds, i'm 12 pounds lighter than I was 6 weeks ago, and i'm feeling a whole lot happier, and I don't feel sick or anything. Everybody around me, like my parents and friends, are getting on my case saying i'm becoming anorexic or something. I am for sure not anorexic because I am fully in control of what I am doing, I know I can stop at any point if I want to. And it's not like i'm starving myself, I still eat, just less than before, which is what most people do on diets, right?
What can I say to everybody to put their minds at ease, because i'm doing this in a perfectly fine way? Has anybody ever been in this situation, and knows how to handle it?
Much appreciated,
jenny