Date:   1/7/2007 10:21:57 PM ( 17 y ago)
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URL:   https://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=806157

Thanks #73079. You gave some great advice.

About anger and denial: When I weighed very, very little and my mom took to the doctor's, my doctor said I couldn't excercise or go to the gym anymore. I was so angry about that being taken away from me - I thought I would get "fat" without it. I lashed out and sulked because I couldn't admit that at my weight, exercise was more deathly to me than healthy. The same goes with fasting for you. You know when you're starving yourself you're at a greater risk of your heart stopping because your electrolytes are unbalanced? I also used to get heart palpatations all the time, and sometimes it would feel like my heart was clenching at night - I couldn't even breath when this happened. Don't let it get that far for yourself. It's scary, painful, and damaging to your body. And you have to live in that body for a while. You want it to operate properly and be healthy. You don't want dizzy spells, heart palpatations, mood swings and osteoporosis (among many others) for the rest of your life.

I started off just like you - in weight competitions with other people, trying to be "healthier" (ie. eating only fruits, ect.) and then it just escalated and everything snowballed to a point where I was completely out of control and my disorder had taken over my entire life. You seem to be at the point of escalating when you're considering something as extreme as fasting to lose weight, when you're already at a low weight.

The first step to to talk to a councellor. Please do so. You may be angry, but you're angry because I've hit a nerve: You know you have a problem, you just don't want to admit it.

It's hard to admit you have an eating disorder, I know that. You like to believe that you're in control and there's nothing wrong with you. Fact is, there's something VERY wrong with the thought pattens and behaviours associated with eating disorders. People are not supposed to starve themselves down to unhealthy weights. It will only get worse the longer you ignore the problem.

Once again, you have my best wishes.
 

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