Razhie

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My official name is Manda, but I've been Razhie for almost as long. I'm a 28 year old woman who didn't use to be half as confident or brazen as she is now.

My advice is pretty good, not always perfect and rarely censored.

I can read what is written. I cannot read your mind.

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The Question
I'm a middle school girl, and I "suffer" from severe anorexia. I personally don't believe that it is an incredibly big deal, however there is one other problem. I can't lose weight. No matter what I do, nothing happens.Everyday, I record my weight, width of my waist, and what I ate that day. At the very most, I eat 750 calories a day. I do a hundred-cal workout however many times is necassary to work off the calories, plus 400 crunches. I eat organic cereal with milk for breakfast, resulting in 260 calories. For lunch, I have a 50 calorie container of applesauce, if anything. Then for supper I eat the smallest portion of whatever my mom cooks that I can get away with. Finally, I workout, doing the hundred-cal 3 times for lunch and breakfast, plus another 5 times for supper (I just estimate 500cal for supper cause I don't know how much it really is).

Despite all of this, I still don't lose weight. I fluctuate from 108.5Lb to 106, and from a 26.5in waist to 29. Im so tired of doing all of this, but I have to until I'm skinny. Anyone have an explanation? (Or at least some sort of appetite suppressant ideas)

If it helps, I'm a 5'2 female and 13 years old.

The Answer
You can't lose weight because you have no more 'weight' to lose. At this point, you are asking your body to consume your muscle mass, and probably beginning to damage your internal organs.

The next stage from where you are at isn't more weight loss—it's starvation. Along with fainting, vomiting and internal organ trouble that starvation causes.

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but the fact you feel you MUST lose more weight is the illness talking. At some point, weight loss is just muscle and organ loss. That's where you are getting too. Once that begins to happen, things can get dangerous fast, and the damage can be permanent.

Please, just keep getting treatment for your eating disorder. That is the problem here. Not your waist.
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