I'm Worried of Becomming Anorexic Posted: 07-10-07 10:44am
before my back accident i use to be a size
eight and was running professionally but i
had an injury which stopped all that and i
began to eat and put on alot of weight. i
went upto 13 stone and my family started
to call me fat and would make comments,
esapecially my twin who is a skinny. it
wasnt until my husband said i was as big
as an elephant or i looked like a body
builder in our holiday photo recently that
i thought anything of it.
i'm now 10 stone and i've lost three stone
in just under two months. i mainly eat
twice a day and its only fruit and veg and
i try to eat less each day and i go to the
gym twice a day. in the morning i go for
three hours and when my husband goes to
work at night i go for five.
i think about how many calories are in
food and how long it takes me to burn it
of in the gym. yesturday i tried not to
eat at all but my husband noticed and made
me eat and i still managed to throw over
half of a small portion of pasta away and
i lie about what i have eaten through the
day. i wont eat anything after 3:30 am i
falling into the trap of becomming
anorxic.
If iwere you id speak to a therapist asap,
it sounds like your headed down that road
to anorexia already, you dont want to get
sucked in, a psychologist can help you and
u could also speak witha nutritionist to
set up a healthy meal and workout plan for
you to lose weight healthily, losing
weight rapidly isnt good for your body at
all, so please get some professional help
asap, anorexia is not fun and is life
threatening.
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cln1812
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Posted: 07-10-07 20:04pm
Yes, it sounds like you definitely have an
eating disorder! I would get help as soon
as possible. The sooner you get help, the
better your odds of recovery.
That much exercise every day is not
healthy or normal. Keep it up and I
guarantee you will develop stress
fractures and muscle strain because I went
down a similar path. At my worst, I was
exercising 5 hours a day (almost all
running) and eating very little to sustain
myself. I passed out a couple of times.
I got thrown out of the gym. I lost my
periods for over a year and my weight
plummetted dangerously. I started getting
heart palpitations and developed
tachycardia, and my electrolytes
(especially my potassium levels) were all
messed up. After recovery, I had so
stressed my joints with overexercise that
it was more than a year later before I
could exercise properly again (this just
walking for half an hour at a time)
because my knees & ankles were so
messed up. My toenails are still messed
up over 5 years after recovery. They all
fell off with the ED. I started losing
hair and it's very bad on your teeth
because the malnutrition strips the
calcium from your teeth. I almost never
made myself throw up either; it's all the
restricting that did that. I have broken
so many teeth now (even after recovery)
and needed so many crowns (at almost $900
a pop) and have almost no enamel left on
my teeth. Not to mention all the cavities
I get now.
You need to see a psychiatrist, therapist,
and registered dietician (preferably all
skilled with working with eating disorder
patients). Failing that, at least find a
therapist skilled in cognitive behavior
therapy as this is the type of therapy
that has the highest success rate in
rehabilitating people with EDs. Exercise
addiction is hard to break, but I can
guarantee it's nothing you are getting
enjoyment out of and more a chore you have
to do daily by now. It is well worth it
to recover and get your life back. The ED
takes over your life and becomes your
life; it sounds like that's where you're
at now.
