PRO ANA/MIA? I need to talk to someone.?

Question

Is it sad that if I actually could vomit what I eat and or not eat at all I would. I work out 20-60 min mostly cardio & stretch & weights. I have no self control, I am counting calories, eating "healthy' no fast fod, i hate soda, I like chocolate though. I love carbs -pasta, yum, but I CANT stop eating like a normal person, its like i wish i could get an eatig disorder temporarily so lose then be normal, please dont get offended,i know im wishing a serisous problem on myself and for someone who has it your probly hating me calling me a sad joke of a wanna be but i have to be honest withsomeone even if its a complete stranger. Advice?

BAD BAD< i do realize. the thing is i dont have an addictive personality- i guess its good that i dont or with the way i see myself i prob would already have an eating disorder, i just need to let my frustrations out- i appreciate everyones opinions & suggestions, and no i dont think ill ever have an eating disorder- i DO want to lose it the health y way but when you diet and exercise and make a "lfestyle" change as i have already and 6 weeks in you see nothing and its as important to me as it is, this is what craziness starts to make me think. thanks for all of your advice- i cant afford a shrink- so you guys will have to do!

Answer 1

It is very sad that you want to do that. I could and did do it in my teens and early 20s and it became an addiction that I couldn't control. It ruled my life, wrecked my teeth, and made me miserable. While I thought I looked great, a lot of people thought I looked ill, and it took me years to get back to being a normal person. I spent thousands of dollars getting my teeth repaired. My metabolism was so slow after starving myself for so long that I had to allow myself to gain weight and then work on getting it off in the regular way, eating right and exercising. Believe me, it is not something you want to do. I know that you are thinking it's an easy way out, but it's not, you will pay for it. A lot of people have trouble controlling themselves when it comes to food, but you just have to try your best and not resort to these measures.

Answer 2

I don't know you, I'm going to try not to judge you, but that's really really dumb. Bulimia is not something to wish upon yourself. You don't want an eating disorder to consume your entire life, because that's what it does. You can't stop once it's gotten a hold of you. There is no way out. Once you reach your "ultimate goal weight", you'll just keep going and going no matter how much it's hurting you and everyone around you. You won't care about looking hot or toned anymore all you want is the numbers to fall and your stomach to twist itself into knots. And as for purging, you can't stop it's like an addictive drug. When your family takes a hint at what you're doing, you'll ditch the bathroom where they can so easily hear you barfing up your insides and move to your bedroom, where a trash can seems like the only hope for that 10,000 calorie binge you just went on. You won't even care about friends anymore. If you're out having a good time and accidentally eat too much, you'll make up an excuse and run home to purge, skipping out on all the fun. Get help before you start to live like this. It's not sexy or glamorous. What's so beautiful about living with your head over a toilet and fingers scraping your throat until it bleeds? I swear on it, once you start this you can never go back to normality.

Answer 3

It's not going to make you feel better about yourself. You'll just feel even worse, and end up in the hospital or therapy. It's also annoying because it's all you'll ever think about, every day. You're stomach will shrink so much that even when you eat barely anything at all you'll feel so full, you'll WANT to throw up and you feel fat and like a pig all the time. It's not pleasant. YOu'll become a calorie calculator and you're head will automatically convert food to calories without much thought. It's an addicting thing and it's not worth it, it really isn't.

Answer 4

It is sad, your self image is so poor that you would risk such a disorder to try to improve it, and even if you lost the weight from such a practise, you still wouldn't feel better about yourself. You would continue to try to lose more and more weight thinking it would all be so much better if you lost just another five pounds and another five and another five and so on until you died. Yes, anorexia kills people every year.
You are looking in the wrong places for a good self image. You need to look within, and there are skills you can learn for doing that and learning to accept that you are beautiful regardless of your external shell, that you have value and worth. Changing your external shell will not make you beautiful and it will not make you happy. That is why people die trying, they are chasing something that doesn't exist.

Answer 5

o girl, you're preachin to the choir. I've tried to force myself to be anorexic/bulemic so many times, it's not even funny. I was actually anorexic for about 6 months at one point, but then i turned bulemic, and was throwing my food up for about 3 months. THEN, some reason i just quit. I started eating and couldn't stop.... I tried for so long to get back to that way, but now i'm finally happy with the way i look. I eat, but i don't "overeat" therefore, my weight stays "normal." Believe me, if you go anorexic, one of two things will happen; You will either die due to lack of nutrition, or eventually get over it and gain the weight back. There is no happy medium. Even when i was anorexic, i still thought i was fat all the time, but everyone i knew told me i looked sick cuz i had gotten so thin... so think about that..... You just have to learn to be happy with your bod, and realize that you look good...