Introducing myself

**Posts:** 3 · by **lunatic** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:49 am

Greetings all,
I'm a girl in my mid-teens recovering from anorexia nervosa. It all started around this time last year when I thought I was just too fat, despite being an average weight, and decided that the only reliable way of losing it was becoming anorexic. Long story short, I did just that (and it felt fantastic, if it wasn't for my parents' constant resistance). Luckily, during my stay in hospital due to my low weight, I had an epiphany that I couldn't go on living as a personifacation of my eating disorder and dared myself to explore who I really was beneath anorexia's safety blanket.
Since then, I've been on my road of recovery. Most of the symptoms have subsided, however my relationship with food is still problematic. Only recently I've begun compulsively overeating, which makes my self esteem incredibly low. However, I think I can tackle the problem by watching how much I eat for a month of so (apparently this is how long it takes to break a bad habit) and, with your support, hopefully lose a couple of kilos that I gained stuffing myself with junk.
Thank you for listening

**Posts:** 2457 · by **dav1307** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 4:31 pm

Glad you're feeling better! It might also help to eat more organic food, if you're not doing so already. That would help supply nutrients that your body wants, and to thus your body might not get as hungry.

**Posts:** 10 · by **Achieve Brilliance** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:01 am

Much luck and health to you... welcome to the forum!

**Posts:** 1444 · by **stella_blues** » Tue Sep 13, 2011 7:33 am

lunatic wrote:Luckily, during my stay in hospital due to my low weight, I had an epiphany that I couldn't go on living as a personifacation of my eating disorder and dared myself to explore who I really was beneath anorexia's safety blanket.
...Only recently I've begun compulsively overeating, which makes my self esteem incredibly low. However, I think I can tackle the problem by watching how much I eat for a month of so (apparently this is how long it takes to break a bad habit) and, with your support, hopefully lose a couple of kilos that I gained stuffing myself with junk.

Hi Lunatic! Welcome to the forum.

You seem to have great self awareness and can be bluntly honest with yourself. Very good qualities to have when dealing with an eating disorder.

My concern is that you feel you need to lose those "couple of kilos" you gained binge eating. One of the trademarks of an eating disorder is to swing from one extreme to the other; not eating at all, to eating all the time. I feel it's quite possible you're on the cusp of a relapse into anorexic behavior. You've learened that you have the will power to not eat at all and that it seemed to have great benefits with losing lots of weight and getting positive attention for it. Now you're back to square one of needing to lose weight, again, which was the precursor for your anorexia.

This is where you have the opportunity to break the eating disorder cycle. To do this you need to accept these extra kilos. I know that's a LOT easier said than done! :roll:

Your body craving carbs and sweets is just it's effort to make up for that period of starvation. It's normal for it to go a little overboard. The "cave woman" part of your brain is preparing for another derth in food supply. It's saying- "OMG- there was NO FOOD for a long time so I need to get all the extra energy I can in case it happens again!" You know? It's striving for a sort of homeostasis for the long term. The reptillian part of your brain isn't thinking about HOW the starvation occured, it just knows you need food to survive and will always fight for that. Do you know what I mean? So by accepting your weight as it is, your metabolism can chill out. Right now it's pretty freaked out! Just give it some time to realize you don't need to store extra energy.

That means no starvation diets! :wink:

In time, (most likely longer than a month- give yourself more like six months) by adding healthy foods and normal activity, your cravings will diminish. You just need to believe this and hang in tthere.

Do you know what your BMI is?

**Posts:** 4 · by **ABIUD** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 7:39 am

Hey Guys,... How are you all? Hope you are fit and fine. i am ABIUD form USA and I am happy to be a part of this forum. Will you please let me know or anybody knows deeply, why we get angry what is the logic inside this, and waht is the cure of this.

**Posts:** 2880 · by **paulo111** » Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:40 pm

ABIUD wrote:Hey Guys,... How are you all? Hope you are fit and fine. i am ABIUD form USA and I am happy to be a part of this forum. Will you please let me know or anybody knows deeply, why we get angry what is the logic inside this, and waht is the cure of this.

One school of thought is if you have insulin resistance (not diabetes- yet) your blood sugar can go abnormally low - which is known as hypoglycemia, to bring the sugar back up quickly means you release adrenaline, and this is said to cause the anger. Probably why there is so much violence in town centres each friday and saturday night after alcohol, which again can cause hypoglycemia if your insulin resistant.

**Posts:** 14140 · by **jurplesman** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 7:32 am

For an explanation of anorexia read:

Eating Disorders

**Posts:** 4 · by **Meadow** » Tue Oct 18, 2011 3:47 pm

Hi dear,
I am Meadow, I am new to this forum.
I want some health advises from all of you. Please give me some valuable health tips.

**Posts:** 4 · by **Dean Smit** » Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:46 pm

Hi dear,
I am Dean Smit from California USA. I am new one for this forum.
Here I want more friends for getting advice and sharing information about health, fitness and nutrition.

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