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Hi. Heres my problem... I think im fat. Im 12 years old and i weigh around 75 pounds. All my friends tell me im not fat, at all. But when i look at my seld, all i see is fat. I'm a gymnast and i go to the gym 3 times a week for 3 hours. So i do work out alot. But I never feel satisfied with my weight. I never really skip meals, because i know its bad. But i sometimes wonder if i should.... What should i do?
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Okay, well seeing that you're a gymnast and you work out that much, I highly doubt that you're overweight. Mainly because if you were it would be pretty hard to be a gymnast, because you work out, and because I have a friend my age, and I know other people who are gymnasts, and they're all sticks. But DO NOT start skipping meals, after you skip one meal one day, you might feel a little more satisfied, then you go skipping another meal another day, feeling more satisfied, then you skips any meal you would normally eat where there are no people around to witness whether you eat or not, then you simply just skip lunch at school (even though it's summer) telling your friends you had a huge breakfast, and you start feeling much more satisfied with you're weight. BUT... you may feel really satisfied, but you could in reality look horrid. I have quite a few pictures of when I was anorexic, and in my mind, I looked GREAT, looking back at those pictures, I looked horrible. My face and body was so thin you could see the boned, I was in 6th grade weighing around 50lbs, maybe less.
It's completely mental, once you start you CAN'T stop. I had to see more than one psychiatrist, and my parents ended up taking me away from the one that I liked which made it harder for me to want to start up eating again.
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It's okay if you want to eat smaller portions (but not too small).
It's okay if you want to work out for a few hours (but not too many, and not too hard)
It's not okay if you feel unsatisfied with the way you look. But that doesn't mean you start skipping meals, because no matter what you think, one or two skipped meals leads to a whole lot more, and if people notice the meal skipping, they'll force you to eat, which leads to you throwing up the food...
What you need to do, is talk to someone before your mind and what you're thinking of doing leads you too far. Since school is out I would reccomend a regular psychiatrist, but once schools back in, why pay all that money when the school guidance councilor is free?
Oh, and 75lbs is NOT fat. You need to learn to be satisfied with you're body just the way you are. I'm not the thinnest person in the world, but I've learned to not care about it. It's what you think that matters. I'm not sure how to help you learn to live with however you look (which by the sound of it probably isn't too bad :]) so thats what I would reccomend talking to someone for, to boost your self confidence. AND NEVER EVER EVER skip a mean uless you are truly not hungary, but then, even try to eat something small. I'm not saying one skipped meal leads to anorexia, but the way it sounds you feel about yourself, it just may lead that far.
And if you come out of anorexia alive (I know people who have died from it) then you end up eventually weighing more than you did before mainly because you're metabolism slows down so it can keep the fat in you for if and when you decide to become anorexic again. The less you eat, the slower your metabolism, and I really don't know if once your metabolism gets slow that you can speed it up.
GOOOOOOOD LUCK!
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