[~koe*no*sainou~]

just wondering =X i'm not one to be exposed to friends or family that have anorexia so i'm just wondering about other people's experiences =/

one creepy saying that i heard someone say was "you don't choose to be anorexic, it chooses you"

[JunRi<3]

Uh well when I used to be really really really stupid (back in 6th grade. Yes, I was stupid.) I was a Wannabe-ANA. I used to go to the thinspiration forums because I thought that's how all diets were. I ate like a cracker a day and drank water thinking I ate too much back then o___o.
Now I'm wayyyyyy smarter and waaaayy fatter and totally against anorexia ROFL. I know a lot of celebrities sure were anorexic. :X

[Love Virus]

My friends all accuse me of being annorexia but I swear I'm not
I might have followed some habits of being anorexic
but physical wise I'm not :T So I guess I fall into the category of wanarexic =____=

I think real anorexia has to do with chemical levels being out of balance in your brain but then..doesn't any other psycological thing work that way
and I don't think anorexic's leaned heavely on psychological...not sure
ehhh it's one of america's biggest health problem, next to obesity hahaha...ok not funny

[seeepluss]

I watched the Tyra show and there was this girl who had Anorexia, she was in her 20's and only had a 9 yr old's weight x-x;
She said how she wanted to become thin, so she started to go on a diet, but then afterwards she got use to it, she soon knew the she was diagnosed with Anorexia - an illness; she became thinner and thinner and one day she could just never wake up. . it's sad):

but it is curable - 90% out of 100%

[`LANE]

I watched the Tyra show and there was this girl who had Anorexia, she was in her 20's and only had a 9 yr old's weight x-x;
She said how she wanted to become thin, so she started to go on a diet, but then afterwards she got use to it, she soon knew the she was diagnosed with Anorexia - an illness; she became thinner and thinner and one day she could just never wake up. . it's sad):

but it is curable - 90% out of 100%

similar thing i saw on the tyra show i think it was ? some lady and her husband and her 2-3 kids or whatever.. even though she has a family and what not, she cares so much for her looks and shes anorexic...... sighs pretty sad.

OP, i admit.. that is one creepy saying.. as soon as i read that i was like erhhhh.

i was never thought to be anorexic which is a good thing i suppose but recently i've been thinking about it.. sighs.

[suitcases]

I went to school with a girl that was anorexic. We all knew it, but she never admitted straight up and we were too scared to say it ourselves. She was in my math class and on the track team I managed and she would complain all the time about not fitting into her uniform, or how her legs were so fat in these shorts... whenever she said things like that I would tell her that she was wrong, that she was perfectly fine... she just wouldnt't couldn't listen to us. She kept loosing weight and at first, she would sit in the cafeteria with us at lunch and just have saltines... but eventually she stopped going into the cafeteria all together. She could tell you the calorie count of any kind of junk food in the vending machines on campus, but she never ate any of it. The skinnier she got, the more sad and tired she became. She stopped smiling, stopped joking, stopped giggling, stopped being anything really. It was awfull to watch. My heart broke when she was pulled out of school by her parents and sent to a rehab school here in town. I felt so incredibly guilty because we knew what was happening and we never told.

On a happier note, she completed the rehab program and graduated from high school just 6 months behind us. I saw her at university and she looks so healthy and beautiful now, it's amazing. She even has a fiance! I'm so proud of her for buckling down and going through the recovery process. It's incredible what your body can bounce back from...

[Tammy]

I had two friends who had anorexia nervosa.

My first friend had anorexia for 7 years. She was about 5'6 and 97lbs, which is natural for some girls but for my friend it wasn't. Her whole family was on the biggish side, and she was very, very skinny and bony. Eventually she got put onto a proper diet by a doctor and put on some weight. But she hated it and developed bulimia soon after. After a lot of therapy she's overcome both.

My second friend was anorexic for 2 and a 1/2 years. He was 5'9 and 115 lbs. He was overweight before and shed almost 100lbs in total from anorexia. And he never intentionally became anorexic either, at first he started bike riding and shed about 40lbs. He liked how he was losing the weight and started eating only cereal with skim milk. By then he stopped bike riding and picked up running. He ran 10km a day three times a day, and ate less than 200 calories a day. He also had OCD tendencies, so he had to do his exercise and had to eat the certain amount of food set out for him. After his parents sent him to some doctors and they told him he had very little time left to live if he kept up with it, he broke down and slowly started recovering. He's at an average weight for his height now, although it took alot of time because when he started eating normally again he would always feel really, really guilty.

Eating disorders are tough to deal with, and they never really leave you. Both my friends tell me how they still worry about their weight and the foods they eat, and how they feel guilty after eating certain foods too. Anorexia isn't as simple as "I feel bad about my body, I want to lose some pounds." There's so much more to it than that.

[christinexkim]

Yeah.. unfortunately, that's right. I hate it when people say things like I want to be anorexic because the truth is, you really don't. It's painful, emotionally and physically. Also, don't expect to have good relations with people. Anorexia takes over your life.Unfortunate as well, anorexia often stems from rape or abuse or some other kind of factor in one's life. It can also be from other things, but abuse in the past is a popular factor.Oh, and anorexia is really more of a psychological thing because of the body image issues and the OCD tendencies that most victims have makes them vulnerable to it.

[mz.carolyn]

Thankfully, no one near me has suffered from anorexia.

Another creepy saying is from Janice Dickinson (world's first supermodel) "I wish that some of the models in my agency would be anorexic!" =O (not word for word, but you get the meaning)

[pervert]

i had a friend who claimed that she was once bulimic, but i bet she wasn't.
she tells everybody that she use to be bulimic and had anorexia, but she was never too skinny for as long as i'd known her.
i did notice that she lost a lot of weight, but she had control of her purging, she was able to stop when she thought she was skinny enough.

girls :|

[rigashi]

My best friend was anorexic in high school. She played soccer since childhood up to high school, so she grew up being labeled as a tomboy. But one day she randomly got scouted by a modeling agent at a gas station, and she learned how to apply makeup and take care of her hair and be fashionable. Unfortunately she also learned to count calories (knew how many calories every food had I swear) and constantly weigh herself. She became OBSESSED with numbers, and despite the fact that she has larger, denser bones and tons of muscle, she convinced herself she needed to be skinnier than me. (We were the same height, but I have a very tiny body frame and very little muscle). She would eat like a piece of ham and half a small potato for a whole day. And she kept losing more and more weight... ugh her bones were sticking out everywhere it was so awful.

But luckily when she went to college she decided she loved drinking (lots and lots of drinking) more than obsessing about her weight. And then she gained 80 lbs over the following 4 years. o_o

[xchuchanx]

My friends all accuse me of being annorexia but I swear I'm not
I might have followed some habits of being anorexic
but physical wise I'm not :T So I guess I fall into the category of wanarexic =____=

I think real anorexia has to do with chemical levels being out of balance in your brain but then..doesn't any other psycological thing work that way
and I don't think anorexic's leaned heavely on psychological...not sure
ehhh it's one of america's biggest health problem, next to obesity hahaha...ok not funny

it is BOTH psychological and chemical.

it is a psychological struggle of addiction. addiction is a chemical thing in your brain. your brain wants "this feeling" until the point it NEEDS it.

and "this feeling" in most cases is the feeling of "power" "control" "self hate" "satisfaction" etc.

[kokorochan]

This topic scared me a little. I think that people who are anorexic should be told endlessly that they aren't fat until they believe it themself.

I don't think there is such thing as "anorexic chooses you," because, when someone is anorexic it is because they, themself, are refusing to eat more.

It might be a psychological problem but I believe that, it is really their own self-esteem. They choose to be anorexic because they believe that being fat is a 'bad thing,' however, in reality, being fat is okay. It is NORMAL to be fat.

If anyone anorexic is reading this, please EAT! @_@;;

Anyways, I do not know anyone who is anorexic. However, I did read a scary book before about an anorexic girl. She died in the end by the way, because of insufficent nutrients. So if you are anorexic, please go eat and let your body recieve the nutrients & minerals it needs.

KThx&Bye.

[DV]

a lot of people in my school are anorexic.
its pretty sad to see, because they all complain about how fat they are getting, when their bones are all sticking out.
i wish people would realize how scary it is.

[lily-chan]

yep I used to be. I ate one oatmeal cookie + an apple per day. Mine wasn't as extreme as eating a cracker per day... but still overly unhealthy. Or sometimes, I wouldn't eat anything at all thinking that I ate too much the day before.