ED Recovery Club

Someone suggested to me that I start this. I'm trying to come back to healthiness because I've been dealing with Ana for a while now and it's really ... not a good thing.

So...Ana (nervosa and athletica), Mia, BED/COE, Ortho, Bigorexia, whatever it is you might have had or are trying to recover from...I was thinking a good support topic in the motivation forum would really keep us on our feet.

Now if I'm the only one, well, then, just ignore me... *whistles and looks around nervously*

:)

i can definately see where a website like this would feed your obsession, but i don't think that's the only thing.

think about the media, and how we're always constantly surrounded by the pressure to look good and be thin.  don't you think that doesn't help?  and school. they teach you all about these things in school.  and both my friend (who is also suffering with bulemia) and myself agreed that if school hadn't taught us about this stuff, we never would have tried it.

Wow, actress, that's a really interesting insight. I'm an ED counsellor and our service regularly goes into schools to talk to teens about ED's, obviously the trend for ED's is growing, and part of me does wonder whether the 'publicity' makes it worse, certainly I think that sufferers are learning that having an ED is a way of getting much needed attention - but at the cost of their physical and mental health...I wonder what we could be doing differently...any ideas?

honestly, queen, i have no ideas on what else could be done.

i just know that that's how my friend and i feel. she's bulemic, and i'm annorexic and bulemic.  do you think we ever would have known all these things existed if they never taught it to us?  i don't think so.

well, everyone. it seems to be a nightly ritual now. i keep everything in my body until dinner. then, after dinner, it's time for me to purge.  it's insane.

hey guys, I'm siiiick. fever, cough, cold, the whole thing. and i can hardly eat. i had a can of veggie soup which was only 160 cals today and im finishing a cup of hot cocoa before i go to bed. i wasn't even hungry more than once today but i couldnt eat so i had the soup. only foodi could stomach as the veggies and noodles were all mushy haha. i know it sounds gross but its not!

i was scared i woudlnt have anything except water which is also partially why i had the soup. i dont want to start fasting all impromptu. im against it as it slows down ur metabolism anyway.

i am getting really compulsive tho which worries me a little... =/ ... i mean it could be a good thing that i prepare all my food religiously to bring to school and dont eat other stuff..but its a little OCD and i find myself restricting...like doing the 2-4-6-8 diet or something. eesh.

i keep messing up tho...i'll eat a "normal" amount of cals and have a defecit but i cant see that im losing any weight. help! i do have a bit of weight i want to lose still ...

actress-i do hope you can stop purging soon! it's really really bad for you but i'm not going to belabor that point because i'm sure you know. but if it helps any, you should know that keeping everything in ur body and then purging after dinner won't help because after about an hour, your body has already absorbed all the calories of whatever you've eaten. even when you purge everything, on average only half the cals are lost.

well, i don't care about breakfast and lunch.  i keep those in my body so i have something there. then i purge after dinner to get rid of dinner.

Hi Actress, I'm wondering what it was that they taught you at school? The idea that we could be doing more harm than good really worries me... I believe that there is always a reason for having an ED, which is fuelled by the information you find about how to 'develop' that. What I mean by that is that without some underlying issue you and your friend would not 'need' to have an ED, it is a very hard and debilitating way of life, what keeps you chained to it? What do you gain from it? What do you hope to gain from it?

I'm doing better. 

It helps to know I'm not the only one!

Trying to figure out how to deal with big stress instead of eating.  Or Huge stress without starving.  Weird.  My first thought is always food. Drives me nuts.

we learned about all this so extensively in 7th grade, pretty much exactly what each eating disorder was and how it gets started, and all that stuff.

i'm not saying it's a bad thing, i'm just saying, i know, the idea of throwing up everything i ate wouldn't have come to me without learning about it in school.

by the way, i want everyone to know that yesterday was a purge-free day for me!!!! and today, so far, has been too!  =]

hey ya'll!

thought i'd stop in and say hi... i'm trying to recover from anorexia.  although i am eating again i still have a long way to go.

actress - congrats on having a purge-free day!

~ ruth

thank you!!!

so im a recovering anorexic and was wondering if anyone has problems after they are done eating and if sitting still after eating is bad or if you should move around??

guys, yesterday was a purge-free day too!  and today has been so far as well. so, if i keep it up, i could be up to three days.

this is good. =]

Oh! I love this site, there are so many helpful threads that I can relate to.

I had anorexia last year and recovered only to start becoming bulimic.  Then I just started binging with no purging and gained tons of weight. 
Through my roller-coaster of a diet, I'm going to try to get my life on track and change my whole perception of my outlook into a healthy one, not a skinny one. 

Since I'm still purging sometimes, I'll be posting my status on that issue.  I'm still trying to stop myself.

Good news though!  I have not purged at all today! It's my first day on the road to a happier and healthier life!  I feel great!!

sohooot, i know exactly how you feel.  i've been purge-free for two days now and feel amazing.

also, i feel a lot less tired now.  i love it. =]

ok, this is the first time I've written on a forum, so here goes.

I am nineteen years old and suffer from anorexia. I am 5'7 and I weight 100 pounds. I am trying really hard to be happy with my weight and not loose any more. According to this website I need to have about 1500 calories per day to maintain my weight but I find that hard to believe so I usually eat a lot less, between 700-1000 calories. I was wondering if anyone thinks that I should trust what the website says and have 1500 calories?

Just thought I'd come back to this thread an say hi :)

I met with my drs on Thurs -- They weren't happy with my weightloss (at 89% of my body weight). . .I still feel fat, but I'm going to have to gain to stay out of hospital. . .

4 months until I'm 18. . .then hopefully 90lbs by the end of the summer and 75 by next december. . .

I guess I'm in an ed mindset tonight.

If I don't eat I will go in hospital and get even fatter.

Anadrea

guys.  it has been THREE whole purge-free days!!!!!!

sorry, just had to share. i'm excited. =]

actress ~ that's terrific :)  Proud of u Girl!

anadrea ~ sorry, we can NOT help you lose weight and get down to 75 lbs.   you might die at that weight and losing you would be a tragedy.

this discussion is about how we can get better and QUIT hurting ourselves.

please ask your doctor what would be a good weight for you.  75 lbs is the weight of a child. 

you need to be healthy and find a weight that is in the normal range for your height :)  we are here to support you in getting better.

Here is a table that shows the normal ranges.  Anything below the numbers shown on the table is too low and dangerous.

http://www.healthmonitor.com/BMI.htm

{{{sadiemichel}}} {{{sohooot}}} Welcome :)

Sadie ~ have you worked with a doctor on your weight range?  The table shows your lowest normal weight would be 120 lbs for your height up to 153.

http://www.healthmonitor.com/BMI.htm

when I put the numbers in here for you, the calculator automatically adjusts a goal weight at 135 lbs. 

If you were to gain that much by the end of the year, then you would need to eat 1,950 calories a day...

so that is about right.  that would be an extra 450 cals a day and that would bring you to the middle of a normal weight range for you :)

Actually it is a bit more complicated because you have been in starvation mode eating less than 1,200 calories a day and getting your weight so much below normal.  The tools here are based more on normal metabolisms and yours is probably slow from the starvation mode.

I hope you are working with someone in the realworld to help you set a realistic weight and a realistic eating plan to get you to a healthier you :)