| anorexia recovery? |
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cammyclaire94
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Posted: 17 January 2012 06:54 am |
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Okay, I'm new to this site so I'm not sure if this is the right place to post? But anways- my story-
I'm seventeen and about a year and a half ago I suppose is when I started to develop anorexia. I was in denial for a long time, but I've finally come to grips with the fact that what I've done to myself isn't a fad diet or a passing phase, but an eating disorder. I've had very unhealthy periods, and less unhealthy periods, but never a completely normal/healthy day of eating in the last year. I've also (embarrassingly) started the nasty habit of chewing and spitting. which I absolutely hate, but since i've accepted that i have anorexia and i won't ever be happy until i'm healthy, i guess it's my half hearted attempt at recovering. eating the tiny bit i swallow but not actually gaining weight. idk...my head is screwed up and i know that's a stupid way of thinkng. whatever. i love being small and tiny but i also know that i hate my life and there's no hope of being happy for longer than a couple days at a time if i do have an eatng disorder. so despite my twisted way of thinking, i am going to try and recover.
right now i consume maybe 200 calories max a day. and thats from chewing and spitting. i workout like no tomorrow also. I'm not that underweight though. I'm 5'10 and 122 pounds. (up from 113 at my lowest) so with the amount i'm consuming and burning off in a day, and being just barely underweight, i'm scared that once i start eating 1200 cals a day i will be a lotttt heavier than i used to be. at my highest i was 156. Does anybody who has experience with this, know a diet plan that will allow me to eat healthy again without gaining too much weight? i do want to stay on the smaller side, obviously, but i want to be healthy again and not worry about my hair falling out. lol all the stories i've heard, people start binging and become overweight during recovery. my parents don't know, they think i'm healthy now that i've gone up from 113, and so i dont have a dietician or anything like that. any advice?
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Nir
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Posted: 18 January 2012 06:19 am |
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There are 2 implicit questions here: how to recover from anorexia (the mental condition) and physically how to be able to eat more after a prolonged period of starvation.
The physical question - it requires tapering of excessive exercise and eating more, but the key is to do so gradually and deliberately. There's a book called 'metabolic repair manual' which breaks this down.
Equally (if not more) important is recovery. Counselling, therapies (like CBT), eating disorder groups, specialised eating disorder forums, 12-step groups (for example Overeaters Anonymous welcomes anorexics), books about anorexia. Though one way or another it is a good idea to involve other people in your recovery and not do it on your own.
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johnhaslem231
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Posted: 1 February 2012 08:19 am |
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| There's a cure with anorexia. You should eat healthy foods 5 times a day..
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