Eating Disorders and life with one - Discussions, Opinions, Advice.

A little creepy. but it made me giggle. so all is good. and stuff.

That's an awfully long time to be feeling like this...we might not be able to help much here but we'll always do our best, even if you just want to rant or vent

It is indeed, and I'm coming up to that length of time as well, with being funny about my body. Induction day in july of Y6, stood in the changing room in my bra and knickers trying to find my PE kit. By xmas Y7, mastered how to put PE kit on with showing as little flesh as possible.

I can't remember a time when I ever liked my body but I didn't start doing anything about it until I was fifteen. It sounds ridiculous but I literally woke up one day and thought 'I'm not going to look like this anymore' and flicked it on like a switch. It didn't take long at all before it was a way of life. It's even more stupid because I know looking back that I was always slim anyway, I've never been overweight in my life. Quite interesting trying to work out what the origin of it is.

I can't remember a time when I ever liked my body but I didn't start doing anything about it until I was fifteen. It sounds ridiculous but I literally woke up one day and thought 'I'm not going to look like this anymore' and flicked it on like a switch. It didn't take long at all before it was a way of life. It's even more stupid because I know looking back that I was always slim anyway, I've never been overweight in my life. Quite interesting trying to work out what the origin of it is.

I can't remember a time when I ever liked my body but I didn't start doing anything about it until I was fifteen. It sounds ridiculous but I literally woke up one day and thought 'I'm not going to look like this anymore' and flicked it on like a switch. It didn't take long at all before it was a way of life. It's even more stupid because I know looking back that I was always slim anyway, I've never been overweight in my life. Quite interesting trying to work out what the origin of it is.

Same!
I was chubby (not overweight, I was just tall and not skinny) all through primary school and I had no confidence so was bullied (it didn't help that my dad uses the word 'fat' as an insult and sees fat people, especially women as something grotesque. Then in the summer before secondary I decided to re-invent myself personality-wise and became rather popular in secondary school. And then in year seven we had to learn about EDs in PSHCE and I learnt about bulimia and stupidly decided to use purging as a way to lose weight. So I would just purge after every meal (never binging), also my mum had breast cancer that year so I was probably feeling pretty low/powerless. By mid-year eight I was restricting heavily and it was around then that I found Pro-Ana online.
I've just realised, I've never really been a teenager. Like for the whole of my teens I've had an eating disorder. God, that's depressing. I'm turning twenty in April and my teens were lost to eating disorders.

I might be in a minority here, but could you please spoiler your numbers (i.e. weight). I know that a lot of us find numbers a trigger.
Everyone else, please tell me if I'm out of line please.

We did eating disorders in GCSE Biology. sir joking that he's got AN because 'he looks in the mirror and sees a fat person' wasn't funny. The rest of my bio group found it hilarious. I did get an apology, probs more because he was worried I'd go to the head.

Ugh. YOU ARE WORKING WITH TEENAGE GIRLS (sorry about the stereotype) YOU SHOULD KNOW NOT TO SAY STUFF LIKE THAT.

I know. That's what I thought. well, more uneducated twit. I'm resitting my AS german speaking exam in the summer. In the booklet of questions that we could get asked for the 'healthy living' topic, theres one about eating disorders. If i get asked that particular question/ a similar one, he's going to regret asking me, thats if i dont ask him to change the subject. My response that i bullet pointed for it was something along the lines of, you dont seriously believe that something which takes and destroys everything that makes your life worth living, is something we do for attention?

Oh dear god I'm in a binge and the only thing I can think to do to stop it is to go and walk to the petrol station and buy some cigarettes and smoke the entire pack. Please, please help me

What's the actual question? I can't believe they've put one in about EDs being for attention

I know that smoking is bad, but the walk would probably do you so much good. Just to get some distance between you and the scene of the crime, so to speak. Just walk slowly to the petrol station, breathing deeply to calm down. Is there anyone who can meet you just so you have a distraction?

We did eating disorders in GCSE Biology. sir joking that he's got AN because 'he looks in the mirror and sees a fat person' wasn't funny. The rest of my bio group found it hilarious. I did get an apology, probs more because he was worried I'd go to the head.

I know. That's what I thought. well, more uneducated twit. I'm resitting my AS german speaking exam in the summer. In the booklet of questions that we could get asked for the 'healthy living' topic, theres one about eating disorders. If i get asked that particular question/ a similar one, he's going to regret asking me, thats if i dont ask him to change the subject. My response that i bullet pointed for it was something along the lines of, you dont seriously believe that something which takes and destroys everything that makes your life worth living, is something we do for attention?

,,Bulimie und Fettsucht sind ein Ergebnis von Kommerz und Schoenheitswahn: bist du die gleiche Meinung?''
means something like; Bulimia and obesity are consequences of comercialism and the ideas of beauty: do you have the same opinion.
btw, the question wasnt set by the exam board.

I made a promise with my BF that I'd stop smoking... Nobody around, BF lives 100 miles away and I live alone