[erika.march1993]

more and more young girls (and boys) are feeling the pressure to be skinny from the media.
when I was 11 years old, I started crash dieting. I've always thought that I was too fat (around 125 pounds) and I was short (4'11) it never went as bad as me getting diagnosed with anorexia, but I was on my way there and thank God I didn't go that far.
Bad effects?
My period is totally messed up now (I can't get my period unless I take birth control pills)
I didn't grow much (5'1) I feel like I could have grown more and I was growing so fast before dieting.
depression.

I really regret everything I did to my body. If I could go back, I would totally change my eating habits.

BUT the pressure to be skinny and beautiful wasn't as bad as it is now. Now younger and younger kids are inspiring to be skinny and suffer low esteem.

[` J e s s]

Yeah, I started eating a lot less in late elementary school. I was a bit chubby (BMI 25-ish) but it's a good thing I got out of it. One time I got the flu, and I realized that I lost a lot of weight, because I said I was sick and I didn't want to eat cause I would just throw up, right? And that was true. But even after I knew I got better, I pretended to be sick so I wouldn't have to eat. And I did it every time I got the flu, or even a cold. At one point, my BMI was at around 15.

My period is pretty messed up too. I don't have a regular cycle. One time I had my period for three weeks. The gap between the first days of two separate periods can range from 15 to 40. But my period only started about two years ago, so it might even out by then.

But I got out of it before I entered puberty. I entered puberty in middle school, and by then my eating habits were better. I gained quite a bit of weight, but I also grew. My hips widened, and my breast started developing. Currently, I am at 5'4.5 and around 115 pounds, making my BMI 19.6, which is healthy.

Now, I'm not really trying to obtain an ideal body cause I already have it, but I'm just trying to maintain it.

[oliviak712]

At the time I was 5'3, and at a healthy weight of 117lb. I started a bad habit of crash dieting and bingeing elementary school. So the crash dieting became restricting. But my dieting became out of hand, and I dropped down to 97lbs.
I was diagnosed with anorexia.

I was put into In Patient in 8th grade. I'm now going into 10th grade and not fully recovered. I've relapsed many times and have horrible thoughts about my body. My period only comes 4 times a year.

I'm now about 5'5, and weight 125lbs.

This is obviously not everything about my eating disorder but this is the basic stuff.

I'll never be cool with my body and I'll never be okay with food. Even now, I'm trying to lose weight. Some bad stuff happened in my past and it has contributed a lot to my ED. I truthfully don't see the media causing kids to have ED. The media wouldn't never cause someone to throw up meals or starve themselves in till they faint, its what's up in your brain that pushes us to that point. Its our urge for control.

[laris]

i have in the past from doing the fasting diet + intense workouts for wrestling. it was all temporary.. losing 10 lbs of water weight in the course of 2-3 days. in fact since i wrestle in college, we still do it during the season. it's very bad for your health we already know..

i think i stunted my growth.. i could definitely be taller ell oh ell.

[adiavoy]

I remember in the summer of 6th grade I kind of crash dieted, but I was pretty chubby (127lb) and I only ate breakfast + snacks throughout the day while I would exercise at night. Hmm.. I remember only feeling light headed and weak at times but it wasn't seriously fatal, I dropped down to 112lb in a matter of 2 months... but too bad I gained it all back during school.

[aquavital]

ahh i did this too, not long ago actually. I crash dieted and went from 74kgs to 60kgs (i'm 172cm) in like a few months, thats like 31lbs and I went from a uk size 14 to a uk size 8-10 (us size 4-6).

Not good. I skipped breakfast (pretending i ate it, washed it down the sink when no-one was looking), skipped lunch (actually, i had about 5 grapes, to reward myself if i was doing good), drank tonnes of hot green tea and ate tiny amounts of dinner (couldn't escape it, my parents forced me to eat it) saying I had loads to eat at school. I felt like what i was doing was good, i mean, i saved money on my lunch card right? From not buying food in the canteen. At 60kgs, i was week, dizzy feeling and pale-looking, with no circulation in my fingers/toes - people would touch my hands and be like, wooaahh ur like freezing, here, take my gloves etc...

Slowly, my super thick hair started falling out, i'd get a hair ball of like 50 hairs every time i brushed/washed it

Then, i decided I had to stop, at first, it was really hard to stop, like i'd feel like my stomach was soo bloated (it had gotten used to little to no food so had shrunk), but i really tried to snap out of it and built up food slowly, and at first i didn't gain much, and stayed at 62kgs for a while, but then It got really bad and i just lost control and all those times i deprived myself, well, it seemed like my body was taking revenge, and I had no self control, went back up and now i'm (baisically) back to square one. This time i'm doing it the right way, honestly, it's better to get it right the first time then keep going up and down. Do it right and it'll last, you'll feel good and you won't feel deprived. Don't let it take over you like it did to me (it filled every thought, all i could think about was food when i was 60kgs).

[Kui~Xian]

Oh boy >> Yes. Last year was a really bad year for me, I was about 85(small bones, i had a kidney problem so i wasnt allowed to have alot of milk) pounds and thought i was huuge still so I went on this crazy like 600 calorie diet.. and it didnt end well. :X My parents brought me to the doctor and she got me on like five pills(still on them) and its been like an endless few months of binging like crazy and yeah its pretty uncomfortable to say the least. :/ I'm with you, I wish I could go back in time and not even bother about dieting or calorie counting or whatever. It's just not worth it. I lost friends and lost a lot of valuable time and the thing is, all dieting does is make you binge later on and in the end, a lot bigger than you started from. Dont do it guys, crash dieting wont work. I didn't even feel great when i WAS super skinny, i felt like sick all of the time. It was probably the worst experience i've ever had in my entire life. I'm still binge eating(its been a while and still :/) and yeah I regret trying to "diet."

[rawr! :3]

yeah, i did it when i was in 7th grade. i lost 20 pounds within 1-2 months. i wouldnt eat breakfast, lunch, and even snack. i would only drink water everytime im feeling hungry and chew gum so i have atleast a taste in my mouth lol. it wasnt good at all cause i would get tired easily and sleepy in my classes. && also i had horrible moodswings. although it gave me the body i wanted, it still wasnt good for my health .___.!!

[CrashbabY31]

Try going from 119 to 64 pounds. It is a hard process and I struggle everyday. It's not easy but I try. You just have to keep trying is all. It won't EVER be easy but you just have to keep your head up and not fall back down.

[Jennified]

^
64 pounds? are you insane?
unless you mean kilos

[EHNerJI]

blah i wrote a long reply before but it was weird,
so i didn't post it LOL. but i'll give a short version.

basically, in grade 1 (so when i was ~ 6 years old)
i did have an eating disorder. unintentional, though.
i was never fat, and i was never trying to lose weight.
no one really knew what was wrong with me,
but the doctors blamed it on me being nervous about moving.

i would try to eat, but nothing would really go down.
it would just sit in my mouth and i'd have to spit it out,
because i just couldn't swallow it.
the main thing that i ate was icecream sandwiches o.o
so weird and random, but those were pretty much all i would eat for a while.
and i used to just lick the flavor off of chips because for some reason,
i couldn't swallow it even if i tried (lol, so gross)

this went on for a few months (about 3 months i'd say?)
and everyone was getting really worried because i was dropping weight like crazy,
when i was already thin in the first place.
i seriously thought i was going to die, haha.
i had to drink those gross milkshakes (idk what they are called, but they taste bad v.v)

it stopped when i finally moved here and made friends,
in the beginning i was still eating icecream sandwiches,
but then one night i told my mom that i wanted to try to eat something else,
so then she got me food and i was finally able to eat it. yay ~ LOL.

.. short version turned into long version =.=;
but yeah, i wouldn't do anything like that on purpose.
i would rather lose weight the 'healthy way' if i wanted to.
i love food too much and not being able to eat SUCKS.