i've never had an eating disorder, but i've known plenty of people in my life who have had them. people used to think i had one when i was in high school - i was 5 foot 7 inches and weighed about 110 pounds, i was stick thin. i used to get teased about how skinny i was and by the time i was in 11th grade my metabolism disappeared. i gained a lot of weight, i think the highest i ever got was about 150 or maybe a little higher and i felt awful about myself. i was sooo lazy and out of shape.

last year i changed that, but i did it the healthy way... the way everyone should do it. count your calories, be aware of what you are putting into your body... BUT YOU HAVE TO EAT! you're only going to end up damaging your body in the long-run if you neglect eating all together or only eating things like one apple a day... that is NOT the way to do it. i've dropped down to 125 pounds which i feel is a good weight for someone my height. i excersize for an hour a day, and on days i don't excersize i am working and i walk a lot at work - usually putting in well over five miles a day. people who've known me for a very long time, but don't see me so often don't recognize me anymore. i went to one of my best friend's weddings last summer and one of my friends who moved away before i started my weight loss, was ignoring me and i thought he was being rude so when i finally went up to him, he couldn't believe his eyes. it's a great feeling to know that people recognize something i've worked so hard for over the past year, and i am being even more strict these days... i won't let myself eat a lot of food that i used to eat and i just make healthier eating choices. sure, i'll poke and pinch my tummy fat but it's only because i like to check my progress, not because i can't stand the way i look. i'm happier than i have been in years with my appearance. watch what you eat and excersize, it's a great way to keep your weight in check.

i hope all of you that are struggling find help and feel better. eating is not a sin, so do it! i know it's easier said than done, but it's very cruicial for you to think of the way your decisions right now are going to impact your body in the future... it won't be good. my thoughts and prayers are with all of you.

the logical side of my brain won!!!

thanks for the support people you are so sweet (and talking about sweets...I'm hungry again )

That makes me so happy, Sahara I'd send a few sweets to you now, but I'm eating them myself

But I'm glad for you

*eating a diet yogurt and pretending that it was a chocolate cream*

the logical side of my brain won!!!

thanks for the support people you are so sweet (and talking about sweets...I'm hungry again )

Keep on following the right path girl!

SO

the logical side of my brain won!!!

thanks for the support people you are so sweet (and talking about sweets...I'm hungry again )

Oooh, so glad to her eat!

i've never had an eating disorder, but i've known plenty of people in my life who have had them. people used to think i had one when i was in high school - i was 5 foot 7 inches and weighed about 110 pounds, i was stick thin. i used to get teased about how skinny i was and by the time i was in 11th grade my metabolism disappeared. i gained a lot of weight, i think the highest i ever got was about 150 or maybe a little higher and i felt awful about myself. i was sooo lazy and out of shape.

last year i changed that, but i did it the healthy way... the way everyone should do it. count your calories, be aware of what you are putting into your body... BUT YOU HAVE TO EAT! you're only going to end up damaging your body in the long-run if you neglect eating all together or only eating things like one apple a day... that is NOT the way to do it. i've dropped down to 125 pounds which i feel is a good weight for someone my height. i excersize for an hour a day, and on days i don't excersize i am working and i walk a lot at work - usually putting in well over five miles a day. people who've known me for a very long time, but don't see me so often don't recognize me anymore. i went to one of my best friend's weddings last summer and one of my friends who moved away before i started my weight loss, was ignoring me and i thought he was being rude so when i finally went up to him, he couldn't believe his eyes. it's a great feeling to know that people recognize something i've worked so hard for over the past year, and i am being even more strict these days... i won't let myself eat a lot of food that i used to eat and i just make healthier eating choices. sure, i'll poke and pinch my tummy fat but it's only because i like to check my progress, not because i can't stand the way i look. i'm happier than i have been in years with my appearance. watch what you eat and excersize, it's a great way to keep your weight in check.

i hope all of you that are struggling find help and feel better. eating is not a sin, so do it! i know it's easier said than done, but it's very cruicial for you to think of the way your decisions right now are going to impact your body in the future... it won't be good. my thoughts and prayers are with all of you.

That is EXACLY what i was talking about. Not eating and thrwing up have gone thorugh my mind but i was Never able to do it. Simply becouse i can't do anything without food . I seriously can't .

And if anybody Really wants to lose wight we can't stop them , but atleast do it the Right way.

Like i said eat healthy stuff (doesn't always mean diet becouse artifical shit is bad for you i was like addicted to Diet pepsi , but i stoped drinking it) everything your body needs and cut the fat (from junk food becouse you can still get it from your normal meals) and ofcourse we can have every once in a while chocolate or chips and not to go crazy 'omg i'm gonna die of obesity' , but don't make habit of it either.

As long as you eat normal healthy meals and excercise you'll be fine and if you want to lose wieght you have to cut about 500 calories a day (I read that somewheres) but I don't think i'll ever do that (cound my calories) that's just going to get too much in my head i'll just stop my very bad eating habits (you have no idea how much Fat i ate today.. and yesterday.. and yea the day before ) but I can't help it , i find "comfort" in food , and like you i use to be skeleton all my life and then gained weight very fast but that was when i was 13 (now i'm 16) when i came to friggen Canada with junk food surrounding me everywhere (I swear to god it's horrible) . I use to be like 90 pounds then i went up to 120 ish and now i'm 115 and i go up and down 2 punds a lot .

Anyways it's not always about how much you weight , but how you look (if you work out you can even gain weight if you build muscle becouse muscle weights more , but guess what you'll look way better) so i definitely want to melt away my thights the most then a bit of my belly.

Man all my life I struggled of being too thin and not being able to eat a lot and now it's all coming back at me just like you were Brenlynn and Sahara.

And also Brenlynn when you gained all the weight did you get like strechmarks and stuff? I did and i absolutely hate it like that's the worst cuz it'll never go away you know if i didn't i could lose weight it would be hard but it's possible while stretchmarks and so on are there forever , thats the thing i worried/worry most about and i know there are millions of creams n shit but everybody knows they don't work.

betty, yeah i do have stretchmarks on the outer part of my upper thighs. but, i don't think they are that noticable and i don't let them bother me!

That is EXACLY

..And also Brenlynn when you gained all the weight did you get like strechmarks and stuff? I did and i absolutely hate it like that's the worst cuz it'll never go away you know if i didn't i could lose weight it would be hard but it's possible while stretchmarks and so on are there forever , thats the thing i worried/worry most about and i know there are millions of creams n shit but everybody knows they don't work.

Hey girl, don't worry about those. I got em too and I've been pretty much skinny all my life. I just grew tall too fast. But seriously, who gives a shit? I used to hate it, bought those creams and stuff (knowing in the back of my head that they wouldn't work <_< ) and hoped for a miracle. As miracles don't exist (atleast they seem not to around me ) I gave up and accepted them. Nobody cares. If you look nice, who cares about some strechmarks? Besides, they fade over time.

Get some nice bikini shorts and no-one will see if you feel troubled by them. On the other hand; it has been said that tanning helps making them less noticable.

And think of it this way; if someone is turned of by your strech marks, than he or she isn't much of a person at all and not worth your attention and time.

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Get some nice bikini shorts and no-one will see if you feel troubled by them. On the other hand; it has been said that tanning helps making them less noticable.

And think of it this way; if someone is turned of by your strech marks, than he or she isn't much of a person at all and not worth your attention and time.

yes, tanning does make them less noticable! i can testify for that!!

betty, yeah i do have stretchmarks on the outer part of my upper thighs. but, i don't think they are that noticable and i don't let them bother me!

99% of the women have them

Yeah i know..

But I'm only like 16 and they are so noticable.

Omg I am watching atm The Tyra Banks show and she talked about the articles of her gaining weight and pictures and all the things they wrote about her and now she talks about the models that died of Anrexia and the fashion industry and entertaitment & media what it does to all the models and girls and Ana Carolina Reston's mom talks about her doughter.

And there's an anorexic model on the show too and a mother with 2 kids...

Everybody should watch that.

I can recommend the book " Thin" by Lauren Greenfield for everyone with an eating disorder.

Now I'm not trying to get you people in buying anything, but I thought it would help. If anything will get your brain straight, this will.

Here's one of the reviews:

"As someone recovering from an eating disorder, I have noticed that there is a continuing problem with much of the eating disorder literature and media available today; while it effectively serves as an educational tool for those trying to understand the dark world of eating disorders, it can often serve as a trigger for those trying to recover from an eating disorder. However I have found that Lauren Greenfield's work does not do this.

In fact, Greenfield's work is the first piece of information on eating disorders that has truly repulsed me from the very condition of having an eating disorder.

This is the first time I have ever felt this way, and that is very significant, because the difficult part of breaking away from disordered eating is actually seeing that it is a repulsive act.

For this reason, I highly recommend both the book and the documentary for those who actively want to recover, and need inspiration, and to those who are having a difficult time understanding why a friend or loved one is going through it. Greenfield pulls no punches and does not sugar coat any aspect of it.

i watched the tyra banks show today and it was all about eating disorders and the media having affects on women

they showcased 3 models all different sizes and thier topics were really interesting

and they had the mother of the brazilian model that passed away, its a tragic story

and trya set the facts straight about her weight, at her "panty party" on her show, she was at 5'9 and 150 pounds, and she said after the holidays and 3 months passing she now weighs 160lbs and she still looks gorgeous

its a good show for all of us to watch

^That is so true. I was actually gonna tell you guys to watch Tyra or asked if you guys watched Tyra. I think that Tyra is such an AMAZING role model for girls everywhere. I mean, look at her. She's so confident about her body, her show gives people awareness and hope. Tyra is just so confident of herself that its amazing.

And she said something on the show that it isn't the media that affects anorexia, it is yourself. You give yourself limits to what you can eat or not eat. You give yourself the decision to diet and diet and diet when after all your body is as heavenly as Adriana Lima's . But the media definitely plays a big part on why teens and women are anorexic. Take Nicole Richie, we've seen her go from Curvy and healthy to waif and blah. People might say "If Nicole could do that I could too." Models could probaly relate to this because of comparing themselves to OTHER models. For all we know, Jessica Stam would have been standing beside Caroline Trentini the other day and said "She's lost so much weight, if she did that I could too.." So, if you think about it, Your way of thinking definitely affects the way you eat.

Whew. That was long.

i watched the tyra banks show today and it was all about eating disorders and the media having affects on women

they showcased 3 models all different sizes and thier topics were really interesting

and they had the mother of the brazilian model that passed away, its a tragic story

and trya set the facts straight about her weight, at her "panty party" on her show, she was at 5'9 and 150 pounds, and she said after the holidays and 3 months passing she now weighs 160lbs and she still looks gorgeous

its a good show for all of us to watch

Hmm, one one hand I think it's great she tries to get out there and send a positive message to us brainwashed girls. But then on the other hand I'm kinda tired of the preaching. Sure I understand it's not nice to be called fat, but it's not like she'd never told anyone they needed to lose weight. And there was a time she suddenly lost a lot of weight really fast. The only way she could've lost that was the unhealthy way.

I'm getting REALLY tired of all the preaching as well. I think the attention that the media gives to anorexia, bulimia, and other related disease only makes it less 'taboo' or whatever. I think, if anything, it gives girls who have struggled with being a bit chubby a new idea, especially with all these 'pro-ana' sites around the internet. :\

betty, yeah i do have stretchmarks on the outer part of my upper thighs. but, i don't think they are that noticable and i don't let them bother me!

haha well that's great that they don't bother you. since i've gained weight my ass and boobs got bigger too...so their's apositice side to my weight gain aha. and so i have stretch marks on my ass and some on my hips right around my butt, but i don't think they're THAT noticable, so i just use soe cocoa butter ahha.

it's weird how some days i like how i look and some days i don't. my thighs got a little bigger and it bothers me a lot, but the problem is that they got bigger cause it's all muscle <_<. it's got some fat in it, but muscle pretty much and i don't like it cause the muscle sculpts your legs weird can't explain it but yeah. anyways the good thing is that i feel a little better and appreciate my body more. i don't think that y weight (107) is my problem cause for my height (5'6'') it's ok...but can't help but feel how i feel. anyways i've just started eating healthier and for lent i'm giving up meat, so it'll be even more healthier ahah

What Tyra Bank said made me feel better...but a little too late...2 years ago I was 60KG and 155cm...I wasn't severely overweight...But everyone just keeps saying that I'm FAT FAT FAT....So I just got so sick and depressed with people calling me a fat bitch/pig...so loss weight...and now I'm now 43Kg 160cm....Oh well...At least I'm happy, guys start looking at me when I go out....But still, I really hate it when guys laugh at girls and say they're fat...I have a really pretty friend...She's not overweight...And she's in a healthy weight range...But I see people laughing that she's fat..I just don't get it......Like, do we have to be severely underweight to be claim as "beautiful"?