There are too many women trying to be super skinny no
matter what the cost it may have or long term effects on their body.
Eating disorders are no joke and very serious. I just did a post this
week on "Fit vs Skinny" and how the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa
almost took my life. There are actual online sites that teach us how to
be super skinny. These Pro-Ana sites are basically teaching us how to
get an eating disorder and how to be skinny by using so many unhealthy
tricks that are so harmful to our bodies in so many ways. Visiting these
Pro-Ana sites made me extremely sad and very concerned for both women
and men who think it's not a big deal. They continue to look for more
ways and use diet products to obtain a unhealthy skinny body. They're
not seeing it as unhealthy or dangerous to their bodies and continue to
harm themselves.
There are too many women trying to be super skinny no
matter what the cost it may have or long term effects on their body.
Eating disorders are no joke and very serious. I just did a post this
week on "Fit vs Skinny" and how the eating disorder Anorexia Nervosa
almost took my life. There are actual online sites that teach us how to
be super skinny. These Pro-Ana sites are basically teaching us how to
get an eating disorder and how to be skinny by using so many unhealthy
tricks that are so harmful to our bodies in so many ways. Visiting these
Pro-Ana sites made me extremely sad and very concerned for both women
and men who think it's not a big deal. They continue to look for more
ways and use diet products to obtain a unhealthy skinny body. They're
not seeing it as unhealthy or dangerous to their bodies and continue to
harm themselves.
I had a chat conversation
with a 17 year old girl that is sharing with the world on her blog that
she only cares about being skinny. She among others are promoting
Anorexia and Bulimia. She notes in here blog profile that she has an
eating disorder and lists the side effects she's experiencing. Clumps of
hair falling out, cold shivers, rotting teeth due to vomiting. The
rotting teeth come from Bulimia and she claims she both starves and
purges her food. In a lot of cases with Bulimia alone...The purging of
one's food will have the reverse effect they're striving for and will
only make you hold on and even gain weight. The body is in such shock
from the binging and purging it just holds on the weight as a protection
mechanism. In my own personal case I only starved myself or barely ate
so my body had nothing to hold on to and I became emaciated.
While talking to this one girl she
ended up reading my blog post on my experience with Anorexia and thought
it would help others but not her. She was too set in her ways and had a
goal to make her body as skinny as possible. She didn't care that the
binging and then the purging of her food was rotting her teeth out. She
didn't care that her hair was falling out and her skin was breaking out.
All from malnutrition for both eating disorders Anorexia and Bulimia.
She thanked me for my time and suggestions but asked me to move on to
someone else that wanted to be helped. She said...that she only cared
about summer coming up soon and she wanted be super skinny to fit in a
bikini. Now how sad it that? You can only try to help others, if the
person isn't ready to be helped or can't even acknowledge that they have
a problem, a eating disorder that could be killing them. It can be very
hard to help them or show them a better alternative if they aren't
ready to admit to themselves that they have a eating disorder. I can
only hope that they're as lucky as I was and have a loved one be honest
and real with them and make them see their real self. See and realize
what they are doing to their bodies inside and out. Let them know that
what they're doing is not the way to go and can possible end their life.
Show them a better way and help them find a healthier way to get that
fit, thin body they want so desperately... through a life style change.
Eating clean and working out can give them a much better body image that
will keep them healthy and fit for life. ✿
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