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I,m not eating much.
I'm 13 a girl and I am 102 pounds I don't eat much and if I do eat something it's at like 3:00 in the afternoon and it's only like a banana. I fill up on water. It started when my grandparents got me a Fitbit that tracks steps and other stuff but it also has food tracking and when I first got it and was tracking the food I eat I saw how much calories was in the food so now I don't eat meals I feel like I'm fat but my parents think I might be starting to be anorexic and every time I eat i check how many pounds I am And I go and exercise for like 3 hours. I'm starving myself please help me!!
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You are perceptive enough to realize that you're sliding down a bad slope. Give yourself credit for that; many people don't see the warning signs until it's too late.
This is not something you are likely to be able to tackle without some help. It's not a simple as just eating more; you've developed habits and ways of thinking that you need to change, and to make those changes and have them stick with you is a difficult and involved process - but not an impossible one, and it is worth it.
Please approach your parents and tell them that you feel like you need some counseling before the problem gets worse. It sounds like they're already concerned, so you should find support there. You can beat this; you just need the tools to do it, and like everything else in life you cannot do it until you've learned how.
The brain needs a certain amount of calories to function. Anorexia can reach a point where you're not taking in enough nourishment to sustain your critical thinking abilities; that's when it becomes deadly. I have seen it happen to friends and it's a frightening thing. You are now at a point where you ARE thinking clearly, and you CAN take the necessary steps to save yourself without someone else having to intervene and take drastic action. Don't delay until the choice is taken out of your hands; do something now, tonight, this very moment if you can.
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Hon, we can't help you. But we can suggest where to get help. This is something you can't battle on your own. A great many issues and problems that people tend to have in life more often than not, starts with distorted thinking. Distorted thinking happens quite commonly to almost all humans at some point in their life hon so don't think you are weird or worthless. However the moment a distorted thought comes to a person, many are able to see it for what it is and they reject it either verbally or in side themselves by stating the opposite. For any distorted thought, way more than one positive one/outlook is needed to cancel out the distorted thought. It takes more than just your willpower to overcome what you are doing, and the solution may be CBT, cognitive behavioral therapy or some kind of therapy that a counselor or psychologist can help you in.
What is happening to you is not normal. I was 110 lb thru out high school so from 14 on. And I am a petite person with a very fine thin boned skeletal structure and I ate healthy, no skipped meals and even had sweets and snacks and I was normal for my age and at wellness Dr. checkups, I was a perfect weight, not under or over for my age and my bone structure.
Perhaps it is your bone structure that has you feeling you are fat, but you can not change the size of your bones.
Now it is a scientific fact that humans need fuel to be at their healthiest, without being fat. IN that, we are like a car. It needs gasoline to keep running or if you run out of gas, it won't function. If you forget to keep up the amount of oil needed, power steering fluid or any other kind of fluids, the car will not run properly. If a car is abused long enough without gettng the proper care, then the parts wear out faster and eventually that car will just die and not start again for anything.
The human body is amazing at being able to heal itself or become as healthy as possible, but only if we feed it the right foods for our body type and taking vitamins plus supplements for things we need that just aren't found much in food like certain amino acids and such. Now that I am older, I have noticed what not having certain supplements can do. Example: I was having memory problems and forgetting a lot of things. 4 months ago I read about a lack of a certain amino acid will cause memory problems so I bought it at a vitamin store and can say that my memory is very much improved, not back to where I'd like it yet but its a process that takes time.
Your body needs more than water and a banana to stay healthy. You won't always have youthfulness on your side. You are still growing at this age and haven't come into your full adult body yet even tho you may be maturing some due to puberty.
Exercise is a good habit to be in but that does nothing to provide your body with what it needs.
In case you don't think this is serious, i have a niece who eats but doesn't eat the healthiest foods, and lots of junk food. She is 16 and now has chronic stomach problems, lots of pain, and other issues and she ended up in emergency just 2 months ago due to the severeness of her pain. And it is all due to her body still not getting what it needs in nutrition, even though she is eating. She is so low in all the needed nutrients that eventually her body couldn't stay 100% healthy and something was bound to be affected and it was her stomach. So I highly advise you to tell your parents to what extent you are going with no food, just water and banana and ask for help. They will contact the family Dr. and your Dr. will refer you for counseling. If your family has no insurance, perhaps your parents can help work with you, get a book that deals with CBT and with their support and encouragenment, do what the book says to work on getting rid of the distorted thoughts that are causing you to act and feel and believe this way. Oh, I know it feels very real, but just because what you feel is feeling so real doesn't mean its the healthiest thing for you. I used to suffer from an extreme anxiety and was plagued by oh so many distorted thoughts as a teen. I finally did a version of CBT that was suggested to me and I was healed in a very short time and back to normal thinking with no anxieties. I know yours is not an anxiety but end result is something goes wrong for you because like myself, what you are going through has the same root problem as mine did, distorted thoughts.
This all starts with admitting you have a problem and wanting to be healthy and normal again and the final step is reaching out to ask for help. You make a start in the right direction, asking for help but asking here will not help you, I can only encourage you to get professional help.
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