Just so you can understand the definition of anorexia. There is the disease.....which is defined in the DSM-IV:
A. Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age/height (a weight of less than 85% of that expected

B. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat even if underweight.

C. Looking at your body weight or shape as bothering you & denial of seriousness of low body weight.

D. Missing 3 periods in a row.

Which can be either restricting type or purging type(either laxatives of vomiting).
This type of anorexia is the mental aspect of it. You have to have a distorted view of your body, thinking it is fat when really it is too thin....& you continue to loose weight.

Anorexia can be a condition of something else like I said in my first post.....IT IS THE EXCESSIVE LOSS OF WEIGHT!!!!!!! this type of anorexia is due to something physical like a reaction to a med, cancer, reaction to a trauma, etc.

Thinking if you had read my first response, you would have understood that what I said was that I too had horrible nausea & couldn't eat.....I go to the point where the nausea was so bad that I would put in about 2 bites, & no way would any more go down.

Not being hungry & not eating IS NOT NORMAL no matter how much you tell yourself that....your friends are right. I am telling you that because how you feel is not normal, you need professional help in the way of a medical Dr first to determing what is causing you to not feel hungry.....IN IS NOT RIGHT.....If they can't find anything, then you will need to look into the psychological aspects of your condition.

If you don't take action you will not care for the outcome that malnutrition brings with it. I have been there twice & neither time was the treatment something I would want to repeat.

You have to make your own choices......do it wisely & don't be foolish.....listen to your friends they know what they are talking about.....you are playing with fire & the end result isnot pleasant.

Caring about you,
Debbie