Anorexia - Page 2

July 10, 2008, 9:38 PM

Encouraging yourself not to eat at all is pretty sad. There are other ways to lose weight in a healthy way and starving yourself is a cruel thing to do to your own body, no matter how much you want to lose weight. You're not giving your body the proper nutrition and can do devastating effects to your body. It's not attractive at all, as people here have already mentioned. Yes you can eat in minimum amounts than what you normally would...as long as it's still the proper diet that your body needs and you still eat at leasttwice a day. Just cut the sweets, do some exercises, and you shall see some progress. I really don't support anorexia at all, no matter the reasonings behind it. >.>

July 10, 2008, 9:42 PM

I don't like anorexia at all. I've had friends who were anorexic and who've died from it. Is losing weight like that really worth hurting yourself and maybe even losing your life over. I'd rather be fat and alive than skinny and dead. I people so lazy that they can't just try eating very healthy and exercising? I mean, it's like they want to do the easiest thing which is to not eat at all, than to take the effort to research healthy diets, and then to stick to them. If losing weight is really that important, then shouldn't you take the time to do it properly and healthy?

August 13, 2008, 11:33 AM

People end up anorexic for different reasons, and because of that I don't think it's really fair to generalise anorexics as a whole. I also don't think it's fair to blame the media completely. Yes, there are those who want to become anorexic which I see as pathetic. I think that in a lot of cases it's more about getting attention or wanting people to worry about you than conforming to a generalised idea of beauty. Like they'll try to 'hide' it but subconsciously they want people to notice, and when people do ask why they're not eating they'll deny it, and when they don't it's like 'NOBODY EVAR NOTICES ME!!!1

'. Yeah, I know people like this.

Cases like this are probably most common in teenage girls, although I can hardly speak for everyone. <_<

We can't really hold the media totally responsible though like a lot of people do. They hardly glorify anorexia, in contrast there are a lot of campaigns to raise awareness in teenage girls and let them know the risks and damages to their health. And the reason we see skinny models everywhere is simply because slender frames are easier on the eye, they aren't meant to be beautiful. When we look through a clothes catalogue we don't do it to perv on all the models, we look at the clothes. If normal-sized women were used then most of us would look at it and think they need to lose weight, although if you spoke to someone that size you wouldn't think anything was wrong with them. In the same way, whenever a celebrity becomes scarily thin most people think that they look awful.

There are looaads of reasons as to why people end up anorexic. With a lot of people it starts off because they want to take control of their body, or some have problems in other aspects of their lives and want to 'fade away' by not eating, I don't know. Saying that they're just lazy and want to lose weight without exercising isn't true a lot of the time, a lot of anorexics combine not eating with over-exercising.

Anyway, I've waffled on long enough.

In conclusion, I think it's a smaller percentage of anorexics who do it to become more attractive than people seem to think.

August 13, 2008, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Yzma

There are looaads of reasons as to why people end up anorexic. With a lot of people it starts off because they want to take control of their body, or some have problems in other aspects of their lives and want to 'fade away' by not eating, I don't know. Saying that they're just lazy and want to lose weight without exercising isn't true a lot of the time, a lot of anorexics combine not eating with over-exercising.

I'm going to agree with you on this i had a ED for 5 years and i think i would workout maybe 3 or 4 times a day i would eat like a meal a day so i wasnt particularly starving either but yeah generally they do alot of exercise