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Thursday, March 1, 2012

"Stop Trying 2 Be Skinny"

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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