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Eating Disorder
Does anyone else have an eating disorder?. Its nothing short of hell. I binge eat then fast for days afterwards.I constantly worry about my weight and obsess about being fat :-( I wish i could get some peace from it.
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It's so common, you are most definitely not alone. 3 of my friends have had one. Have you been to a psychologist? From what I know from experience, it's not something that will go away unless you tackle the root of it, but if you do, you CAN get peace from it. I also know that just by talking about it on here, you're one hell of a lot closer to feeling better than you'd think.
Reply 2
you are far from alone. ive had an eating disorder since i was 15 or so (now 18) it goes in phases, or cycles i guess - i get over a period of having a disorder (ie. fasting) i start to get better, when better i get miserable because i feel fat again (even if my bmi is still really low) i freak out if i have a period again, i then start missing the disorder as if it defined me and as if its the only way i knew i wasnt a pig, then i start dieting again. it is like an addiction.
im sorry that your suffering aswell, but you've come a big step in admitting your problem to yourself. i advise you to seek help in friends/doctors/family although i also respect that this is very difficult to do.
im sorry that your suffering aswell, but you've come a big step in admitting your problem to yourself. i advise you to seek help in friends/doctors/family although i also respect that this is very difficult to do.
Reply 3
I really recommend getting professional help - therapy/counselling. That's what I did, and even though I'm not sure if it directly changed me or anything, it just gave me positive reassurance that I'm a good, attractive person so I got some confidence to help myself. Who've you talked to about this? What's been useful or bad in the past?
Reply 4
I don't know what I'd call what I have. It's not so much a disorder as an obsession. I'm so obsessed with trying to be healthy and being perfect, which I clearly am not. I obsess about everything I eat, yet it's like a have an addiction to food. I know I shouldn't eat as much as I do, I just eat out of habit.
I'm so obsessed with wanting to be in shape and looking great for uni in September that I do almost wish I had an eating disorder so that I would stop eating too much. I wouldn't say I'm fat in comparison to the average person, I'm 5ft 10 and weigh about 10 stone, but compared to celebs like the Pussycat Dolls, Jessica Alba, Girls Aloud, etc I just feel huge. If these people have been able to get great bodies then I should be able to too and I feel like I'm not good enough because I don't look like them.
It's stupid, I know, but I can't help it. I hate not being the best at anything. Exam wise I don't really work to get the grades for myself, I work so that I get the best ones and beat everyone else. I feel like something's not worth doing unless I can be the best at it, and that's why I get so frustrated that I can't have the best body.
Urgh.
I'm so obsessed with wanting to be in shape and looking great for uni in September that I do almost wish I had an eating disorder so that I would stop eating too much. I wouldn't say I'm fat in comparison to the average person, I'm 5ft 10 and weigh about 10 stone, but compared to celebs like the Pussycat Dolls, Jessica Alba, Girls Aloud, etc I just feel huge. If these people have been able to get great bodies then I should be able to too and I feel like I'm not good enough because I don't look like them.
It's stupid, I know, but I can't help it. I hate not being the best at anything. Exam wise I don't really work to get the grades for myself, I work so that I get the best ones and beat everyone else. I feel like something's not worth doing unless I can be the best at it, and that's why I get so frustrated that I can't have the best body.
Urgh.
Reply 5
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I'm so obsessed with wanting to be in shape and looking great for uni in September that I do almost wish I had an eating disorder so that I would stop eating too much. I wouldn't say I'm fat in comparison to the average person, I'm 5ft 10 and weigh about 10 stone, but compared to celebs like the Pussycat Dolls, Jessica Alba, Girls Aloud, etc I just feel huge. If these people have been able to get great bodies then I should be able to too and I feel like I'm not good enough because I don't look like them.
It's stupid, I know, but I can't help it. I hate not being the best at anything. Exam wise I don't really work to get the grades for myself, I work so that I get the best ones and beat everyone else. I feel like something's not worth doing unless I can be the best at it, and that's why I get so frustrated that I can't have the best body.
Urgh.
I'm so obsessed with wanting to be in shape and looking great for uni in September that I do almost wish I had an eating disorder so that I would stop eating too much. I wouldn't say I'm fat in comparison to the average person, I'm 5ft 10 and weigh about 10 stone, but compared to celebs like the Pussycat Dolls, Jessica Alba, Girls Aloud, etc I just feel huge. If these people have been able to get great bodies then I should be able to too and I feel like I'm not good enough because I don't look like them.
It's stupid, I know, but I can't help it. I hate not being the best at anything. Exam wise I don't really work to get the grades for myself, I work so that I get the best ones and beat everyone else. I feel like something's not worth doing unless I can be the best at it, and that's why I get so frustrated that I can't have the best body.
Urgh.
wow, if i wasnt 100% it wasn't, i'd really think this was written by me. anon 4 you are most certainly not alone
Reply 6
Nice to know I'm not the only one! I just get frustrated with how some people can eat anything, do no exercise and look great while I'm worrying every minute of the day and getting nowhere. Clearly the celebs I mentioned must work to look how they do but some of my friends do NOTHING.
I have days when I think I'm fine or look good but then I'll see someone who looks just that little bit better and I'll be back to square one - not good enough.
I have days when I think I'm fine or look good but then I'll see someone who looks just that little bit better and I'll be back to square one - not good enough.
Reply 7
i just read a book which realy hit home- candida crewe-eating myself....it basically said that so many women obsess over their weight that it's actually not abnormal behaviour...and whilst there is a spectrum- eating disorders at one end and totally happy relationship with food at the other...most women find themselves somewhere in the middle.
i dont have an eating disorder, but i think about food (or food that im not going to eat), and my body and my fat literally every 5 minutes. it's rare that i go a day without knowing exactly how many calories i have eaten...rare being that i have totally pigged out and can't face totting it all up. if i skip meals i congratulate myself...and the weight on the scales each morning totally determines my mood....i've been known to turn down going out for dinnner, or going out for the eveing for drinks, just cos i can't face the calories.
i can't ever imagine just forgetting it all totally and get on with enjoying food- and eating it when i'm hungry.... sometimes i just wish i could....but even if i got really thin, i remember when i was 14 and i weighed my current ideal weight: 8 stone, i still felt fat...
it just feels like if i'm not on a diet i'm gaining weight.....so normally i'm on a constant diet and have been since i was about 13, i think i'll be on one for the rest of my life to be honest! sad really!
i dont have an eating disorder, but i think about food (or food that im not going to eat), and my body and my fat literally every 5 minutes. it's rare that i go a day without knowing exactly how many calories i have eaten...rare being that i have totally pigged out and can't face totting it all up. if i skip meals i congratulate myself...and the weight on the scales each morning totally determines my mood....i've been known to turn down going out for dinnner, or going out for the eveing for drinks, just cos i can't face the calories.
i can't ever imagine just forgetting it all totally and get on with enjoying food- and eating it when i'm hungry.... sometimes i just wish i could....but even if i got really thin, i remember when i was 14 and i weighed my current ideal weight: 8 stone, i still felt fat...
it just feels like if i'm not on a diet i'm gaining weight.....so normally i'm on a constant diet and have been since i was about 13, i think i'll be on one for the rest of my life to be honest! sad really!
Reply 9
Ok il break the pattern too.
dont do this. learning to love eating disorders is something you really should not do.
naelse
learn to love your new companion in life..
dont do this. learning to love eating disorders is something you really should not do.
Reply 10
I know exactly how you feel about binging then fasting, excerise and laxitives- I do the same. I was supposidly made better but I just feel so fat now and I hate it. My friends little sister also has an eating disorder now, but I find that when I see other people who are like that I feel they are challenging me and I feel even more inferior that I couldn't keep up how I was before.
Reply 12
I have phenylketonuria. I can't eat meat, eggs, fish, seafood or anything else high in protein. Never touched them in my life. I eat mostly vegetables and fruits so I would say it's a very healthy diet. One thing's for sure, I can't get fat. I get my vitamins from Sanatogen A-Z pills, calcium from calcium pills, Vitamin C from fruit and pills. I might go back to the maximum aid though which contains ALL vitamins. Only £50 a tub 
Reply 13
*hugs* you're definitely not alone. bingeing and fasting is a form of bulimia, have you been to the doctors? i would advise you to get help for this because it is almost impossible to get better on your own, and it will only get worse (believe me) check out www.edauk.com if you want to find out more about eating disorders. it scares me how many people have eating disorders nowadays
Reply 14
But is it because its less of a taboo or just that we've become increasingly image obsessed?
I wouldn't say I've got an ED exactly but....I go through phases of not eating much..missing meals etc (I lost about half a stone in a month or so...) More stress related I think....
I wouldn't say I've got an ED exactly but....I go through phases of not eating much..missing meals etc (I lost about half a stone in a month or so...) More stress related I think....
Reply 15
Anyone with an eating disorder needs to be sure that there isn't a pyschological reason behind it. I used to live with my aunt and uncle who were both very image obsessed. I hit puberty very suddenly and kinda exploded in all directions. They told me I was fat and ugly and that no one would ever love me (this wasn't what a 12yr old whos mother had just committed suicide really needed to hear). As a result, I left them and re-admitted myself into foster care. The situation got worse and at 13 I weighed around 14stone. This led to bulimia, then excessive yo-yo dieting. Exam stress and falling in love finally allowed the weight to naturally drop off (ironically, my boyfriend of two years is a fully recovered anorexic). My advice to anyone with eating problems is for them to not get down and depressed about the whole thing, that just makes things worse. Get to the reason behind your problem and work from there. Don't let anyone tell you need to lose/put on weight; your're as beautifull as you feel and what you feel is what truely matters.
Reply 16
It's really common, especially in teenage girls; I think most women in the Western world have a messed up relationship with food to some degree. I started dieting excessively when I was about 14; I suppose I'm now bulimic, which is an entirely different thing. I think IKnowI'mNotPerfect's advice basically sums it up; don't let it take over your life, there's so much more out there.
There are many eating disorders out there, don't think that just because you're not 5 stone you don't have a problem or anything.
If I was up to much, I would post some advice or something. But I'm emotionally exhausted at the moment, I just wanted to say that you are not alone, I was (diagnosed) bulimic for a couple of years, then (diagnosed) anorexic, hospitalised, and now am (diagnosed) ED-nos with bulimic tendancies.
Also, its so easy to say and so hard to do, but try not to compare yourself to magazines, remember that most of the people are airbrushed...x x x
If I was up to much, I would post some advice or something. But I'm emotionally exhausted at the moment, I just wanted to say that you are not alone, I was (diagnosed) bulimic for a couple of years, then (diagnosed) anorexic, hospitalised, and now am (diagnosed) ED-nos with bulimic tendancies.
Also, its so easy to say and so hard to do, but try not to compare yourself to magazines, remember that most of the people are airbrushed...x x x
Anonymous
It's really common, especially in teenage girls; I think most women in the Western world have a messed up relationship with food to some degree. I started dieting excessively when I was about 14; I suppose I'm now bulimic, which is an entirely different thing. I think IKnowI'mNotPerfect's advice basically sums it up; don't let it take over your life, there's so much more out there.
Oh, and also, the diagnoses rate in the UK - for anorexics, the average age is 15-20, and the average bulimic age is 18+
I just wanted to point that out also just because you are not a teenage girl, it doens't mean that you don't have an eating disorder or whatever.
Reply 19
Hi, you are completely not alone and strangely it is only through reading this thread that i have realised the severity of the problem.
I'd have 2 say the problem primarily began 4 me wen my dad called my sister 'miss ethopia' an as a child she recieved attention (that i wanted) for being so incredibly skinny. For many of us it is often a trigger like this that (in my opinion) ruins are lives - as i will forever calorie count, binge-eat, throw up an dangerosuly over-exercise.
When i hear people say friends 'are now a 100% recovered anorexic/bulemic' i personally believe it is sumthing that remains with us, forever - sorry 2 sound pessimistic! I think 1 of the only ways 2 get rid of this 'disease' is to take away the 'triggers' - i.e 4 me being left in the house alone for long amounts of time or recieving 6 easter eggs or loads of chocolate 4 b-day etc (i give them away now) without these things i have noticed i dont make myself sick as often as usual or binge and hope that gradually il reduce them 2 almost nothing.
Is it just me or do the people also with my problem on this thread hate christmas?!! - every yr i emerge half a stone heavier, even more depressed about food/weight issues that 4 another yr will plague my life and fully well knowing i will not stick 2 my NY resolution 2 sort myself out! Not 2 mention the fact i cannot move on xmas day/boxing day becasue of the amount of food ive eaten!
I'd have 2 say the problem primarily began 4 me wen my dad called my sister 'miss ethopia' an as a child she recieved attention (that i wanted) for being so incredibly skinny. For many of us it is often a trigger like this that (in my opinion) ruins are lives - as i will forever calorie count, binge-eat, throw up an dangerosuly over-exercise.
When i hear people say friends 'are now a 100% recovered anorexic/bulemic' i personally believe it is sumthing that remains with us, forever - sorry 2 sound pessimistic! I think 1 of the only ways 2 get rid of this 'disease' is to take away the 'triggers' - i.e 4 me being left in the house alone for long amounts of time or recieving 6 easter eggs or loads of chocolate 4 b-day etc (i give them away now) without these things i have noticed i dont make myself sick as often as usual or binge and hope that gradually il reduce them 2 almost nothing.
Is it just me or do the people also with my problem on this thread hate christmas?!! - every yr i emerge half a stone heavier, even more depressed about food/weight issues that 4 another yr will plague my life and fully well knowing i will not stick 2 my NY resolution 2 sort myself out! Not 2 mention the fact i cannot move on xmas day/boxing day becasue of the amount of food ive eaten!
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