Posts by doll_eyes

I hate to admit but I do not think I ever had a 'pre-ED' time. I've always been odd about food ever since I think I was 5 or 6. 

Coconut milk and sugar. You put it in the canister and shake it up- sugar thickens it up and the No2 makes it all fluffy. 

I'm glad my thumb's not going to fall off. I need to stop watching medical dramas so much. 

I was 16 when I moved out, but I stay in contact with my family frequently and they do not live too far away. Sometimes it is like I never moved out though with how often they come by or ask that I see them :/

http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/usefultools/l/ bl_bmi_calc.htm

Here is a link to a children's (20 and younger) BMI calculator. Plug your stats into that and it should give you a range of where is the healthy percentile. 

I just got the message. I do not know what to feel. Very sad, I feel like I had failed her as a friend even though I lived so far away from her she did not need to die at such a young age in such a way. I will miss her.

I feel so very sad. 

Not too long ago I visited a dietician because I had promised my mother I would try harder to recover. However, I spoke to the dietician/nutritionist who SAID she specialized in eating disorders. It really just turned to a competition of how little we ate, or what foods we avoided in our eating disorders. She told of how little her other patients eat as well, and since I do not starve myself down under 300 calories like some of her other patients, I have little to worry about.

Needless to say, I have not gone back and have been gaining ON MY OWN (though slowly) without any 'dietician' telling me what I'm doing wrong. 

Do you have strange, OCD rituals around food? (cutting it into tiny pieces, for example)?

Do you eat enough calories for your activity level? (Teenage male of your height should eat at least 2,800 calories- even more if you are not completely sedentary)?

Do you engage in inappropriate compensation behavior after eating a 'large' meal? (Laxatives, over exercise, etc)?

Does your life revolve around weight and/or food? Does your mind work off of random, arbitrary numbers (IE- only eat no more than a couple hundred calories? do not like your weight to be over a certain level?)

Your weight is VERY low, to a dangerous degree. As in you should probably should be in a hospital. Get your depression treated and your BMI to a more suitable level. 

I am still battling with self-injury, and I congratulate you in getting better. 

I would suggest cocoa butter, or some other ultra-moisturizing lotions. Also, it may not be too healthy, but tanning just slightly may help as well. I think Jergens sells a self-tanner without the risk of skin cancer. 

Original Post by amethystgirl:

Are you taking the number of drugs that Elvis was? Abusing laxatives? Have a congenitally twisted ganglionic fold?  Because that's why Elvis had such a messed up colon.

It's not a normal thing, and you'd be very sick if it were the case for you.

Colon cleanses are completely unnecessary unless you are getting a medical procedure, such as a colonoscopy.

THIS.

Elvis lead a very rough life towards the end- between eating upwards of something like 4,000 calories a day, taking so many laxatives that, without them, he could not go on his own, and the drugs that had also stopped him up he was not in a good place. His diet had no fibre in it, no veggies, no fruit (save for bananas) and the amount of polysaturated fat from fried and fatty foods in his diet really was not helping him any. 

Colon cleanses are only really done in a medical standpoint when a colonoscopy needs to be done (I.E- they need to clean you out to put a camera up there) and even then the medical practitioner will let you know what and how it needs to be done. 

Eat right and exercise, unless you have some severe bowel issues, your colon should be fine.