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Originally Posted by half_awakexx
Almost 1 o'clock and I haven't had anything to eat yet. The rational side of my brain is telling me to at least have a little of something, but the other side, the eating disorder part wants nothing to do with it. I ended up purging again last night. I weighed myself this morning and I'm down another pound. The battery in my scale is dying and I need to replace the batteries. Maybe I won't. I could do without the scale.
Just trying to pass the time now by writing here and playing video games. I know come Tuesday, I'm going to be face to face with my therapist and this will no doubt be brought up. We touched on it last week and it was the first time I went into detail about my past eating disorder.
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You know you need to eat something and that it actually slows your metabolism if you don't eat. What would you tell another person who posted on here that they just don't want to eat? And if you're not eating (or undereating), what you are purging ends up being mostly water weight. Plus, purging is SO bad on the teeth. Though I'm really not one to talk, I just end up doing the purging through excessive exercise; I don't think that really makes it any better. Please get yourself something healthy to eat, make a sandwich or something. People on normal diets lose weight eating 1200 calories a day and exercising (within reason). I was lucky with my first super & most severe bout of anorexia (had another relapse around 2015), but I think because I had been at least eating something daily and digesting food, recovery was less brutal physically. It was still hard, but I didn't have those digestion problems so many others with EDs get when they re-feed. I don't know why, but my set point weight settled quite a bit lower than before after recovery, though that took 6 months, a year. It was a long time ago.
I don't really know you or your weight situation. Are your doctors and therapists worried that it is too low or say that you are normal weight for your height and don't need to lose anything? Or that if you want to lose weight, you should do it in a healthier manner?
Of course, I'd tell anybody in my shoes, stop exercising so damn much! But I have trouble listening to my rational side.
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