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17/f.
ok, i want to lose a little weight, but i'm not really on a diet or anything. but anyway, my mom is starting to be annoying, because she thinks i'm anorexic. like, i try really really really really hard not to eat all day, but i end up eating like a salad or something, and that's all i eat. because when my stomach growls, like if i eat, i end up getting hungrier later too. but if i only eat once a day, towards like evening, i can sleep easier, and stuff. i also don't eat meat. i slip up occasionally, like maybe once a week i'll eat a bite of meat..
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This is very bad, but not for the reasons you're thinking of. Your behavior will lead to severe nutritional problems if you do not get the right amount of vitamins per day, and you will become faint and light-headed if you do not get enough calories per day. It sounds like you are on a diet, and a very dangerous one. Eating meat and salad is by no means a slip-up. You should seek advice from a doctor about what you should be eating daily - if you carry on in this way, it could have serious effects on not only your physical health but your mental health too.
A healthy diet which will cause you to lose a little weight must have 3 meals a day. A good example of a healthy day would be a cereal like bran flakes with some fruit for breakfast (or a fruit juice), salad for lunch, and a balanced dinner like pasta with tomato sauce and vegetables, or chicken with rice/cous cous, or a jacket potato with a filling. You may not be anorexic in your eyes, but to a health professional it would seem as if you are heading in that direction.
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Thanks, but I asked that question a year and a half ago, I'm surprised it was still up
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