One girl mentioned she was weak and tired all the time...

Gee..I wonder why........

They have GOT to be aware of what its doing to their over all health!?

115 is actually the ''heavy'' side of my frame- height related.
I would never want to be super skinny, so there's always the chance I will look better at a higher weight. I've never been skinny in my life so I am just following doctor's orders really. health always comes before looks.
Also I would never want to be anything less than 115 and sacrifice my beautiful curves!
does that sounds extreme to you?
maybe I am wrong

i mean, they obviously know what it's doing...considering i read that some of them have received treatment and are back at it.

i could never ever imagine myself doing that. i love love love to eat and if i went to the store and bought all this food to binge on, there would be no way in hell i'd throw it up and waste all that money.

and i know when i wake up in the morning, i feel weak and hungry and my body is like "hey, where's breakfast?" i couldn't even imagine how weak i'd feel throughout the day if i skipped it. and then ate one pickle. i'd probably be shaking and crying by the end of day ONE i'd be so hungry.

I totally agree!

food should never feel like a crime and I love eating too.
I just bought strawberries, whole grain bread, pears, ricotta and a lot of other goodies today. I love experimenting with cooking and I couldn't imagine myself doing something like eating 100-300 calories a day it is just not enough. I get that on snacks alone!
I think once I tried one of those crazy liquid diets.. yeah. I didn't finish day one, I was already having a sandwich by night haha

they use "2468" in their posts. that means that they have 200 calories one day, then 400 the next day, then 600, then 800, then they start over with 200.

this is also a grocery list one of them posted :

10 calorie jello
60 calorie yogurt
70 calorie cheese sticks (dairy neeed)
apple cinn. rice cakes
peaches
apples
and chicken broth

I was reading over the posts from the "Worlds Largest Pro-Anorexia" site posted on this thread and I noticed a lot of the posters on that site are on some kind of medication.

I feel sorry for those suffering from Anorexia & Bulimia.

I could never imagine eating to few calories a day. I love food (maybe a bit too much, haha). I just hate how they think they have to live up to society's standard of beauty. Society isn't right at all. I mean don't be like that one women on the telly who wanted to weight 500+ lbs, but don't go to the other extreme and want to look like a walking skeleton either.

What ever happened to eating right, exercising, and taking care of your health?

I guess all I have to say is--that having an eating disorder is an illness...

A lot of you are being very judgmental on something you don't know very much about, and honestly its a little offending. I still struggle with these symptoms everyday and I will Never be cured.

I would just be careful on what you guys are posting, I know everyone is trying to remain objective but you have to realize its an illness and these people have issues on grasping reality (thus their seemingly crazy ideals)and sometimes wanting to "shake them" and "force them to eat" are things that unless your a professional you probably shouldn't be saying because you don't realize the strong effect it can have on someone.

I am going to school for dietetics as well as minoring in psychology to help deal with people who have eating disorders, so I know alot of information that many people don't necessarily know abou these disorders--but please just be a little more careful about what you say, because there are people on this site that deal with EDs and Im sure they dont appreciate people posting things saying they are crazy and disgusting...etc


Just trying to make a point--no offense intended

I know what you're saying, but I'm willing to bet that a lot of the people who starve themselves don't have a disorder (I'm not saying you). I've seen "normal" people starving themselves to try and lose weight and get that societally driven skinny image. You don't have to have a disorder to do what these people are doing.

Just like how not all people who drink a lot are alcoholics or just like how not all stupid people have a learning disorder.

My two cents: If you honestly believe that you'll never get better (be cured) then you'll never get the help you need. It's a self-defeating mentality to say that you'll never be cured, you know? When I still played baseball, if I stepped up to the plate thinking "I'll never get a hit", I'd probably strike out. But, I went up to the plate thinking "I'm going to get a hit", which lead to me getting a lot of hits.

You can beat this thing. A disorder isn't stronger than you; you're stronger than a disorder. Just remember that.

Right on!!

playmates & other nude 'models' have been having surgery on their vaginas since the '70's to get the 'perfect' vagina.....no wonder girls heads get messed up at times...not only is there such unreal expectations of what a woman should look like on the outside...but 'down there' too??! WTF!!!


last yr there was a doc on in the uk called designer vaginas...i swear to god!!

girls as young as 18 were having procedures such as Vaginoplasty, Lbiaplasty, and Hymen Repair...for various reasons...

feeling too loose after giving birth/for cultural reasons - wanting to get revirginised!!?? or b/c some lameass of a 'BF' has commented negatively....


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Vaginal Rejuvenation??? FFS!!

when it comes to looseness/after giving birth - pelvic floor exercises...simple!!
but when it comes to what a womans vagina looks like?? GTF!! unless a woman is in physcial discomfort b/c from of how she looks underneath...then NO WAY HOSE!!!!

i've never had any complaints...& i think i look perfectly fine...but whatever...i've had two babies...love me love my fanny!! or f*ck off!!
(i think i should give that talk to girls in highschools...to empower them LOL!!)

(& yes i know that for you lot in the US fanny means bum!! )

omg.
I woulda never thought girls went in to have their vagina tinkered with like that!!
Besides....most doctors, after you give birth, stitch you up rather tight. [idunno I haven't had kids but from girls I do knw who have, they generally say everythings a bit tighter then it had been]

*shakes head* That's sad. A vagina is a vagina, it's not exactly meant to be altered. [not that anything else is but boobs are a bit more understandable]

I understand how you feel hun

but even for those who are ill, it is very beatable.
forcing someone to eat has the opposite effect boy do I know that. I had dysmorphia, especially during my teen years and my mom had me on valium for a little while because I had anxiety attacks. Food was always a synonym of comfort until it began to hurt me and then it turned into binging and I felt so physically ill because of all the food I just had eaten that I did consider throwing up and did in a couple of occasions. It was awful but I didn't recognize it at the moment as dangerous and it took me a long way to realize that wasn't the right way to go.

to me the only thing that worked was a form of shock therapy. knowing that I was seriously damaging not only my body but my mind. I don't want it to sound harsh but sometimes softness and keeping a distance doesn't work, I am not saying we should insult but sometimes you need to hear the truth
and you and your loved ones get frustrated and just want to scream ''eat a hamburger!'' not because they are disrispectful or believe it is easy, but because they are concerned. it is also hard for those who love you who doesn't know how to work with an ED.

I totally agree with ur concern, while doing some research for one of my online projects on getting slim - i came across articles where the author was encouraging youngsters to become anorexic - HOW EVIL CAN PEOPLE BE? I believe that Google should ban such articles like it bans porn websites!

Stumbling across sites for thinspiration are a a bit scary. I have seen them when looking for forums about fitness, health and weight loss.

I felt sad for the girls and their stories. But I do believe it is an illness. There are a lot of sites on the net that I don't agree with, a lot of unhealthy practises that people engage in so we can be concerned, we can have opinions but we don't need to judge the people that have these conditions.

Sometimes it can be one way they can have control in their lives, like a comfort for them. Just as some people find comfort in food, some people find comfort without it.

Some of these girls have not been educated about nutrition and exercise, or have the right kind of support i place to guide them that little bit more, or quite possibly are so addicted to what they are doing cannot see the big picture.

There is an immense amount of pressure out there for women to look a certain way and unfortunately some people take extremes to be accepted into particular groups in the community. I feel so sad for them.

All we can do is try to educate and support people like this carefully and considerately.

I agree with you completely, thank you for posting