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Post by KattyKatie on Jun 25, 2002 20:41:37 GMT -5
^^ This might sound weird but I've read this in *a lot* of health books that the best way to gain weight is to drink milkshakes. It's even in Bobbi Brown's Guide To Teen Beauty. Another good weight gain food is peanut butter and try to eat more carbs.
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Post by LaliciaBebe on Jun 26, 2002 13:38:48 GMT -5
can someone help me... please. i used to be sick, but that was a few years ago. i was better. then i gained weight. i'm not fat still, but i am fat now. all i think about is my weight. how i appear to other people. when i eat, i consentrate on it really hard. i freak out if people touch my stomache or my arms, i dont' want anyone to feel my fat. i hate pictures of myself. all i think about is how much better my life would be if i was skinnier. i still eat, but i am afraid that i will stop. i don't know, does this sound bad to you guys? of is it just normal stuff. see, i can't even tell when i'm normal anymore. i feel really confused. i don't want to be sick again. i feel it coming on more though. i don't know what to do. does this sound bad to you guys?
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Post by :: Natalie :: on Jun 26, 2002 15:13:10 GMT -5
^It's great that you're realizing there may be a problem. If you've been sick in the past, as you say, then there's potential for it to reoccur. Gaining weight is okay. You say you're not fat though, but you sometimes feel fat. Chances are, you look great, but you still believe you're too heavy. Most times this is not the case. If you're unsure if your weight is healthy, please see a doctor! Chances are you're great the way you are. If you want to lose weight without doing it the wrong way, consult with someone who is knowledgable about the subject. Talk to someone - doctor, counsellor, or school nurse. Whatever you do, DO NOT STOP EATING. You want to know if this is normal. Well, I don't know about 'normal' but a lot of people may feel fat. It is definitely not 'normal' or healthy to stop eating. Please tell someone and get proper help if you want to lose weight. I'm sure there are plenty of people in your life who will love you for who you are.
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Post by CurlyQ_Gal on Aug 1, 2002 9:48:18 GMT -5
I have an eating disorder and I have for probably half a year. My weight is still the same so I don't think that I am physically unhealthy. But I know I am emotionally, considering that I can't eat one meal without throwing up. I hit an all time low the other day when I visited a pro-ana/mia website. I wouldn't let myself post but I read what the other girls said. The tips to help yourself purge, how to know when you have completely emptied your body, it was horrible. Yet I am doing it. I tried telling one of my friends and she thought I was joking and now she always teases me about it. "Oh yea, SURE you're bulemic. Haha"
If anyone needs comfort or just to talk I will be here for you. Just PM me. I may have the problem too, but I am not ignorant enough to know when things start getting bad. I'll be able to help.
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Post by Cassiopeia on Aug 2, 2002 11:09:00 GMT -5
^^^ Most bulimics ARE normal weights. But even though you are at a healthy weight, that doesn't mean that what you are doing is healthy. I'm sure you know this, though. I have bulimia, and before I started recovering, I was aware that what I was doing was bad. And I know exactly what you mean about being emotionally ill. That, to me, is the worst part about eating disorders: those thoughts that occupy your mind. I remember when all I thought about was food and exercise. It's so frustrating. And I still think about that stuff a lot, but it's not as much of an obsession as it used to be.
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Post by CurlyQ_Gal on Aug 3, 2002 10:15:17 GMT -5
Yea, I know most are normal weights. Anorexic girls typically get much thinner than bulemics. Either way, it's a sad way to live your life. But most people are not just one, either anorexic or just bulemic. They're both. Like, someone may not eat for a long time but then get too hungry, so she eats and then throws up. Many girls mix both diseases. They're "bulexics", and some may be big and some may be stick thin. That's why I mentioned that I was at a normal weight.
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Post by Cassiopeia on Aug 3, 2002 14:26:04 GMT -5
^^^ Actually, that's still considered bulimia. Bulimia nervosa is classified as a mental disorder where the person binges and purges. And there are many types of purges besides vomiting, such as laxatives, diuretics, fasts, diet pills, excessive exercise, etc. I didn't throw up that often, but I still had bulimia.
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Post by horsesalltheway on Aug 3, 2002 16:31:03 GMT -5
I don't know if this even fits here, it's more of a venting.... But this is really hurting. I've been trying to lose weight. Then I go to the mall a couple of days ago with Katrina and Kayla (I THOUGHT they were some of my best friends) It was Kayla that was being mean though... and I don't know if she was just joking or not. But I was going to get this shirt that she wanted and she was like "No Your fat hangs over don't get it, it looks ugly, get the pink, you won't look as fat." And then like the whole time we were at the mall she was liek "get this, it's wide enough for you" and it really hurt.... whether she meant it or not. And then I was talking to Katrina just a while ago, she wasn't being mean to me at all before, but then I was talking to her on msn... and our thing is do u like birds? well then u'll understand I g2 fly Buh-bye! Anyway, she said that and then she was like "you hippo" And it really hurt. So I just blocked her. Gar. I hate them. But I don't.
Nic
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Post by Ich Liebe Rammstein on Aug 3, 2002 16:48:14 GMT -5
i don't have an eating disorder i just don't eat very much. even if i am starving,i sometimes won't eat. other times i have to make myself...could this *cause* an eating disorder?? >anerexia<
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Post by *Little Leprechaun Gurl* on Aug 7, 2002 10:50:14 GMT -5
^^^ Heather..I know we talked last night....and please... you need some help. All of those things that I told you...happen. And really..we all love you. Please be careful. You're a beautiful person, inside and out, and we love you how you are. Pm me if you need any other help...
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Post by Shrubby on Aug 21, 2002 1:13:34 GMT -5
It's okay to be a little bit big. That's what being a woman is. You can't expect to be stick thin all the time. If you have an eating disorder, you are merely supporting the thin image and maybe even making other girls jealous of you and they will turn to an eating disorder, making other girls realize that they are larger then everyone else and feel bad about themselves. Sometimes I feel a little chubby, but then I see my friends who are size 8, 9, or 10 and look fabulous, and I don't mind so much because they are fine with who they are. A friend of mine who is very thin (which I was a little jealous of), I recently found out she was bulemic. And that just proved my point: it's not natural to be stick thin. Sure, some girls are naturally, but it's just like some girls have violet eyes, and some girls have freckles.
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Post by x.just.a.little.grL.x on Nov 24, 2002 11:42:48 GMT -5
Alright, I have a problem, and if anyone could give advice, it would be greatly appreciated. Well, see, the thing is, my friends are worried about me, and I can tell because I know they've been talking about me lately. They're worried that I don't eat, or that I'm anorexic or something. Because, lately, I haven't been eating much..but see my choice of words, *much*. Like, for instance, I went to a restaurant with my friends a few nights ago, late at night, so everyone had eaten dinner, but everyone got like appetizers and I just wasn't hungry really. After like a half and hour I was like, alright I'll get mozzarella sticks, so I did, and i ate one, but offered the rest to everyone else. Then, last night, I didn't eat dinner, because I wasn't hungry, but I just wasn't hungry. And then when I went to a friends last night, everyone was eating like..cake or something, and I didn't want any because I wasn't hungry, so my friends were like "You have to eat, have something, eat..." etc, etc. And I was like.."You think I'm anexoric...?" And they're like "No...we just don't like this new trend of you not eating.." And I do eat, just not in front of them, I don't know why. I eat, but less lately, and I don't know what it is, but I'm not anexoric and I just wish they would stop. I mean I know they mean well, but it was just kind of annoying.
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Post by Gabbie on Dec 6, 2002 19:23:05 GMT -5
^^^ I've had stuff like that happen with people. Like last year i had 3 really close friends, and I'm still best friends with two of them, but the other one I'm not friends with anymore. Anyway, the one that I'm not friends with anymore, Sarah, had an eating problem although she wouldn't admit it and I was trying to help her and I told her that I used to have the same problem...I just wouldn't be hungry and was eating less...she told my two other friends, that I ddn't want to know, and they were so worried. I know that it was nice and all, but nothing was wrong, because as far as I knew, at the time, I was over it.
The only thing you can really tell your friends is that there is nothing wrong. They are just worried about you, like mine were about me. Just explain to them what going on. They want to help so just tell them what they are doing is REALLY nice, but it isn't going to make things better.
And, if you need ANY more help PLEASE PM me, I've had soo much experience with this before.
Gaby
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Post by paradoxPanda on Apr 19, 2003 20:48:35 GMT -5
My weight problems are very much related to other problems in my life, so I'll try to explain my major life problem.
-I bought a horse 11 months ago. Things started out great, he was a little nervous but completely manageable. About 5 months ago, he began getting more and more anxious. 2 months ago, he began to show signs of lameness (some kind of injury was making him not move properly.) Then an accident which was largely my own fault (although completely accidental) made him much worse. He's become compeltely unmanageable. No one can find the cause of his injury, and he's very hard to control. And it's my responsibility to get him help and somehow to find a home for him.-
Now take how that sounds and quadruple it. Right now, I would be happy to have an eating disorder instead of this. Thrilled. I would love to be depressed and bulimic and near suicidal, because there would be a million advantages.
At first, I was getting more and more compulsive about my eating. I basically eat obsessively and compulsively, always unhealthy food. I'll starve myself until the afternoon and go on a huge binge. I wouldn't say I have an eating disorder, but I certainly have an unhealthy attitude towards food and weight.
Right now, I have very little focus on eating except as an outlet for anxiety once in awhile. However, I think my constant panicked nervous energy is helping me burn calories.
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Post by paradoxPanda on May 4, 2003 14:41:05 GMT -5
I was at the library yesterday, looking at books on eating disorders, and I saw something that made me think. It said that compulsive eaters had a fear of being thin (but might not know it.) At first I dismissed it, figuring it was silly to think that I could consciously REALLY want to be skinny and subconsciously fear it, but then I thought about it.
Maybe, just maybe, I feel that being fat protects me, because when guys don't like me I can blame it on that. Maybe I'm afraid that if I were thin and was rejected and unloved I would have to admit it wasn't my weight, it was me.
Just a thought.
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