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Jun 15, 2014, 04:00 PM
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Grand Poohbah
Community Liaison
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Member Since: Jan 2011
Location: Surrey, SE London, UK
Posts: 1,628
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Hi there, well, everybody really but in answer to you Tea&Sympathy. Oh how I sure do totally UNDERSTAND you entirely. I'm 55 and come from a family of overeaters, so food has been at the top of the tree with myself and my family. I was a very fat kid, a fat teenager, so around the age of 18 I went on my first ''diet'', I found I was so good at ''dieting'' I ended up in the Psych Hospital with anorexia preceeded by a serious overdose because I couldn't live with my illness. Then when discharged two months later I had gained weight but then turned bulimic with massive binges inbetween. A lot more hospital addmitions followed due to depression and ED's. To this day I still have a serious ED, it's classed more as EDNOS now although I swing from anorexic to bulimic to severe restricting ~ the latter is in full sail right now. Although I don't look like I have any ED, I'm ''normal'' for my small height of 4' 11". My metabolisim is completely shot, so every single thing I eat ''could'' increase my weight more than it would in an ordinary person. My Dad is amazed at how little I live on in my restrictive stage. It's very very little. I'm always afraid at every given minute I could go headlong into a binge and I live in total fear of doing that. I keep checking the mirror to see if I've gained weight! Jumping on the scale to check loads of times a day. NOT GOOD. So I totally understand you all. XXXXXXXXXXXXXX HUGS. 
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