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I can't lose weight.
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.
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Most 13 yr old girls weigh around 100 to 150 pounds, so you don't really need to lose any weight. In fact it would actually be unhealthy. I have mild anorexia and tried many methods to lose fat even though I was at the point of my ribs showing.
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The fact that you put "suffer" in quotations as you have is incredibly devastating to me.
Your illness is real and your suffering is real. Your body, your mind, your loved ones even suffer from the side effects caused by anorexia. I really urge you to seek treatment and help.
Right now, you think losing "just a few more" pounds will end your pain. Believe me, I know all too well the rationalization of "just a few more". As a woman that struggled with eating disorders I can tell you that treatment is the only thing that will end your pain.
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Razhie is right you can't lose weight because you have no more weight to lose. The fluctuation in weight you are seeing is muscle weight from all the exercising your doing. When you exercise as much as you are you are adding muscle weight by toning the muscles.
That is not all your doing, YOU ARE SLOWLY KILLING YOURSELF. SEVERE ANOREXIA IS A BIG DEAL AND IT WILL KILL YOU. I WATCHED A DEAR FRIEND'S DAUGHTER DIE FROM SEVERE ANOREXIA.
Let me explain to you what is going on in your body. The body is designed to keep the brain functioning at all costs. The body is a machine much like a car. In order for it to operate properly it need the proper octane, calories in the right amount. For the average person with average activities the amount of calories need varies between 1,900 and 2,100 daily.
What the body doesn't use on a given day it stores as fat to use on days when it may not get sufficient calories. This works well for most people and their weight fluctuates by several pounds.
For those who are anorexic like you. When their is no stored fat to draw on the body goes into safety mode and starts to protect the brain. TO do this it starts to shut off those systems it can't support in order of least importance. In women the first system is the reproductive system. You may not be getting your period or it is wildly fluctuating. Female Olympic athletes do not get their periods while in training and the very young ones develop slower.
After the reproductive system it becomes an organ recital, the Kidneys shut down next followed by the liver then the lungs and then the heart. Finally when everything is shut down the brain dies.
Depending on how long you have been this way you may have already harmed some of these organs may be irreparably. You need to start eating again and to see several doctors. First you need to see your family doctor for a complete physical to see how badly you have harmed yourself. Then you need to see a doctor who specializes in eating disorders. You may also need to see specialist who may be able to repair the damage you have done to yourself.
Once your Kidneys shut down there is no reversing the damage done. You may have only weeks left to live. If you want to see your sweet sixteen tell your parents what is going on with you and get to a doctor NOW.
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Hi there, you should drink plenty of water and other low calorie drinks. Include foods containing high water content and anti-oxidant. Lemon and honey drink can help you a bit.
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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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