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efface

to clarify

Jun 29, 2004 21:20

i hear so many people talk about eating disorders and people who have them, i just feel the need to talk about it from my point of view.

what do i hear? how ungrateful we are that we can afford food but choose not to eat it. how we should just "eat a hamburger". how we're all a product of society's vision of perfection ( Read more... )

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painted_earth June 29 2004, 19:18:18 UTC

I've thought about becoming anorexic (sp?) lately.

eh.... that's like deciding to have cancer. It's a sickness, not a choice.

Well.... incipientmom June 30 2004, 05:27:34 UTC

It is possible to say to yourself "I'm just going to stop eating"
Is it not? Therefore, it would be a choice. I'm not saying its not a sickness...but I also believe there are some people out there that start by choice. Maybe by saying "I've thought about becoming anorexic lately" was bad wording. It should have read, maybe, something like "I've thought about stopping eating" or thought about throwing up the food after its been ate.

Re: Well.... petulant June 30 2004, 15:31:10 UTC

It's the compulsion that makes it a disease and not a choice. It's not "well, I've thought about it". It's "HOLY FUCK IF I DON'T GET THIS FOOD OUT OF ME RIGHT NOW I WON'T BE ABLE TO BREATHE." A lot of girls on pro-ana communities "diet" and such, but really they're around two hundred pounds and just want to lose weight. There's a major difference between that and not-eating for four days because you believe you could gain a pound and it would be the end of you.
It's the need for control that's the actual disease, and it's your environment that decides how you manifest it. What you focus on. Self injury, eating disorders, any addiction...it's all the same. It's just the need for control manifesting itself in different venues.
Does that make sense? What I'm trying to say is, you can't "get" anorexic. That need for control is either there or it isn't.

Re: Well.... incipientmom June 30 2004, 20:44:12 UTC

okay, i understand better now. Thanks for explaining :)

Re: Well.... painted_earth June 30 2004, 15:46:55 UTC

no, that's just saying "im going to stop eating..."
anorexia is much much more.. it's a disease, it's not about "not eating", its about control. I dont think anyone that is truly anorexic, ever started with thinking "i'm not going to eat anymore/.." ALOT of people claim to be ana.. when in actuallity they are probably just fine. People who are sick have this distorted version of who they are/ what they look like... It's more psychological..

not eating, is VERY unhealthy. you need energy to burn... when you burn energy THEN you loose weight.

as someone who has been struggling with her weight for YEARS (the other way) I've learned alot about health... I have been told i was anorexic and accused of it so many times, simply b/c i am underweight. And i always took the term "skinny" to offense.

littlefish81 June 29 2004, 19:58:55 UTC

I hope that this doesn't come off as rude or preachy but the physiology student in me has to clarify something. Eating only one meal a day is actually probably the biggest reason why you're overweight. The soda is bad but the one meal thing is REALLY bad. If you eat only once every 24hours, by the time you eat you must be STARVING. Extreme hunger definitely gets in the way of being in control of what and how much you eat ( ... )

incipientmom June 30 2004, 05:38:46 UTC

Thanks, I'll take your advice. :)
But just for the record, when I eat dinner, its not a huge amount. Its a normal size dinner. And then sometimes right before bed, I'll have a snack of some sort. I've been cutting down the sodas for 3 days now (its a start) and I'm doing pretty well.

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