eating disorders

[monkey]

have you ever had one?

i did. i think i still sorta do. theyre bad. but it's hard not be obsessed over weight when it feels like there's so much telling you to look a certain way. women in our society are fucked. :(

[like2_drink]

i'm just generally skinny, i can eat, i just don't gain weight. my brother started a rumor about me when i was in like grade 8 that i had an eating disorder...everyone believed him

[King PSYZ]

guys are pretty well fucked self image wise too, it's just more socially acceptable for a man to be out of shape i guess...

[ms.peachy]

have you ever had one?

i did. i think i still sorta do. theyre bad. but it's hard not be obsessed over weight when it feels like there's so much telling you to look a certain way. women in our society are fucked. :(

I haven't, but I agree it's difficult not to to be bothered about body image. But I don't think it's just a female problem, and the older I get the less I believe that women are actually any more 'fucked' by society than men are. About appearance things, yes that does probably affect women more, but men are locked in to expectations and stereotypes in other ways that can be just as restricting, and lead towards equally self-destructive behaviour.

[miss soul fire]

I've got them. I've managed to be the highest and the lowest weight in a year, several times, severeal severeal times. And my eating disorder is so out of control that I've recently gained about 25 pounds in about 2 months. I'm gonna go to a psychiastrist today thankfully. I really do hate medecins, but I got to a point that I've lost determination. I mean, I still got it, but it's been quite hard to control myself and I try every single day.God only knows. Well, I believe I'll get better soon.:):D

Hopefully you too.:)

[ericlee]

yeah I had a very bad one. Working corrections and a very bad marriage. Drinking heavily and eating alot seemed to be my only escape.

[Rancid_Beasties]

have you ever had one?

i did. i think i still sorta do. theyre bad. but it's hard not be obsessed over weight when it feels like there's so much telling you to look a certain way. women in our society are fucked. :(
Its not just women though. Its obvious that they are more commonly affected by eating disorders, but my brother had/has annorexia, and its something that totally changed his personality. I dont know whether its the lack of nutrients to the brain, or a direct result of the mental problems that caused the disorder in the first place, but he changed from a really friendly active kid to, well quite scary when he was in hospital. I remember how difficult it was for the doctors and my family to get him to stay on a healthy meal plan. How after he was sent home he would eat ALOT before the day he was weighed in at checkups so he wouldnt have to eat as much the next month. I mean hes healthier now but my parents are always worried. To some extent that alienates him even more. I always found it amazing that a few words by some bullies in year 6 (that my brother was chubby or something) could cause such a severe reaction. Even in someone with a personality predisposed to that sort of thing. :(

[monkey]

yea, men have the same issues. i know. i knowplenty of men completely obsessed with their image and it makes me sad, because i know girls think theyre hot regardless of their weight and how hard their abs are.

but lately ive felt the pressure of female-body-image thing. and i really want to love the body im in, but i think i would love it more if i could be tinier. i wish i could control my diet like i once did...

this isnt healthy, i knoooow.

[Rancid_Beasties]

I've always wondered what makes someone go from wishing they were thiner (as we all do at different times in our lives) to having the willpower to actually stop themselves eating. I just couldn't do it. In some ways it amazes me the willpower my brother, for example, had. It just makes me sad that there wasnt some other way he could get more attention from the girls or whatever his reasons were for originally going on a diet (I mean he wasnt fat to begin with, just had a few puppy fat rolls like we all do at 12). I wish he had've found a pursuit that satisfied his need to improve himself, one that didnt risk his health.

[monkey]

when i had the hardcore eating disorder, i convinced myself there was no time to eat. so i would have breakfast and then go all day only drinking diet coke, and then at the end of the day, i would have like... a caramel macchiato or a granola bar or a yogurt. sometimes, if i was really hungry, i would have like split pea soup. this happened for like 9 months. but it was always just a little bit of food. and i was deadset against junk food and all that. i lost a lot of weight, more than was healthy. so then i started eating around people, and that slowly got me eating again. and that's when i started running again, and that controlled my appetite cause i had to eat all the time just to have enough energy. i was running a lot and eating a lot, and i was at a really healthy weight. but then...

the other side of eating disorder is binge eating. and i tend to do that when im particularly depressed. and ive gone through really bad depressions. so... this is how i get into that vicious cycle of not eating at all to eating too much. (n)

[miss soul fire]

I've got binge eating and that's all I got. It sucks hell not being able to control yourself. It really does and I'm usually determined to eat halthy food in proper times. Anxiety takes over you and that's lame!

[Rancid_Beasties]

For my brother, it all started with low fat foods. Everything had to be low fat, he would analyse every dietary information box, count daily fat intake (usually refused to eat much more than 5 gm of fat per day which I think is about 1/10th the minimum a kid his age should have been eating to maintain body temperature etc, and he'd do about 1000 sit ups per day as well as run for an hour. It was insane, and he lost a hell of a lot of weight. Got down from about 55kg (he was about 165-170cm) to about 27kg. It was really dangerous stuff. He had to go on a drip and all. I dont think it was a depression thing with my brother. He just got into a really really hardcore routine. He also got into athletics and was about to represent his school in cross country because he ran so much. But I think he passed out once at training (I was never given the full story) and thats when he went to hospital...Man that was a really bad time for all of our family. We were really scared because he just refused to put on any weight.

[Rancid_Beasties]

I'm actually a little worried about one of my best friends, but hes always been skinny so I don't know whether I should be worried has a disorder. Hes even lighter than you norcen and probably a little taller...I think you are just in the relatively healthy range right? Hes probably 5'11"-6'0", and only 55 kg (120 pounds).

[cosmo105]

yeah, they suck.

[TurdBerglar]

ummm

i don't like good food. is that a disorder? i'd rather have some hot pockets then a real meal like baked chicken, mash potatoes, corn, applesuace(my family use to have applesuace with everything. does yours). i think it's out of laziness. it's just too much work to eat that shit.

[fucktopgirl]

My eating disorder is when i smoke too much weed,i just want to eat everything in the fridge,almost.But this is occasionaly.Ha and when i do some mash potatoes, i have to finish the cauldron.

[TurdBerglar]

cauldron?


are you a witch?

[fucktopgirl]

hahaha yea the wicth of mash potatoe

but what is a more "modern" term for cauldron

[TurdBerglar]

umm

pot

[fucktopgirl]

yea ok,i still prefer cauldron