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Dieting
Hello, I'm 14 5'0 and 100 pounds, I plan on losing weight so i can be 90 pounds or even less. I've been doing this by counting calories, skipping breakfast, and lunch as well. So for a while I've been keeping my calorie count below 500 and not eating any junk food. Sometimes, however, it is really hard to not eat. Usually what happens is for most of the week I don't eat but then one day I cave in and end up binging. I've been doing this since the Summer and I've been seing the results I want but I'm hoping to get rid of this whole binging shit so I could lose more weight faster. It seems like once I eat one thing I can't stop. I can't puke it out afterwards unless I'm at school, alone, or a different house because my bathroom door doesn't have a lock on it and my parents never knock. I also wanna find a way out of dinner because the only reason I even eat it is bc of my parents. Anybody know how to work around all of this?
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This is called an Eating Disorder.
Go to the hospital. You are going to hurt yourself.
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Hey Dear,
Just so You don't think its one person's opinion only so it doesn't matter or it is wrong, I am backing up everything Adviceman said. It is true and correct and it starts with your reproductive system shutting down. For teen girls who may want to marry and have her own kids someday, this is the time on average that most girls have started a period. Even so, your system is immature and still needs to finish growing. If you are depriving yourself of foods which are the nourishment or fuel your body needed for all systems to grow and then continue to function correctly, you will slowly wear down til nothing is working and then as said, you will die.
Here's an interesting fact. Our bodies are made to heal themselves over colds and flus. But even adult women with normal periods and no eating disorders will experience certain months when she gets a delayed or No period at all because all the bodies resources are going toward fighting the germ attack. That hon, is how sensitive your reproductive system is. If a healthy women has skipped periods during a time of stress to the body like sickness, then know it is also stressful to the body to not have the fuel it needs to survive. Just as a period doesn't come one month for a women with the flu, other organs in your body need fuel to function and when you deprive them by not eating or eating too little, they will do the same your reproductive system did...and one by one the organs shut down and then you die.
Think of this as a car not getting the fuel, oil jobs and maintenance needed to run well. If an owner neglects that, then certain things start to run rough and more parts join that and eventually the car just stops and will never run again because it has been abused. At this point, we buy noew parts or a new engine to put in a car to get it working again. It can't be done for humans. When ALL your organs fail, they can not be All replaced at once and so unlike a car you can not ever be revived and you die.
So you are on a path headed to death. I see that as a less aggressive way to taking ones own life because instead of sudden death, its a process of slowly getting to the point of no return, death. Doesn't matter the process of how you get there, both result in same prognosis, 'you're dead'.
I know you can't see anything wrong with what you are doing and we didn't say what you wanted to hear. We can't give you ways to get around it because there aren't any. This always ends in eventual death. SO you are going to have to do something that inside you'll be screaming it's wrong, but you need to trust your parents, tell them and see a doctor. If anything else, just humor us. It is because of how you think on the subject and you truly can't and don't think anything on this subject correctly, that you are in danger. If treated now, doctors can help you but that means you will have to truly give it your best and just trust the Drs even if it feels like it goes against what feels right to you. You will need to go through this process of doubting or being mad at people for what they keep telling you that you need to do but this is normal and don't worry that you're doing something wrong. It won't make sense to you until your mind and how you think about weight and eating is healthy again.
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You are in serious health trouble. Based on whet you have written I feel safe in saying you have a disease called Bulimia. Bulimia is when you binge and purge.
To start with based on the chart below and your frame size you are anywhere from 4 pounds to 37 pounds underweight. This is another problem that needs immediate medical attention because you are doing serious harm to yourself, I will explain further down.
When you purge you bring up the acids in your stomach. If you do this often enough, which it sounds like you are then you are causing irreparable harm to your esophagus. You do not have to take my word for this. Google Bulimia and read the harm your doing to yourself.
Being 10 pounds underweight is worse then being 10 pounds overweight. The body store fat for a variety though primarily it does for reserve energy. The primary mission of the body is to keep the brain alive. Doctors can keep the body alive with machines to give the body a chance to heal. But if the brain dies there is no coming back. Your brain dead and eventually the body dies.
The fat the body store it uses for those times when your calorie intake is less then what you use. When that happens the body uses the stored fat to make up the difference.
When the body uses up the stored fat it starts to shutdown systems in the body it feels it doesn't need. In a women the first system it would shut down is the reproductive system and she stops getting periods. If that isn't enough then the Kidneys shut down, then the liver, lungs the heart and finally the brain and your dead.
I would say at this point the doctors can probably repair any damage you have done to yourself but the longer you wait the less chance that they can. At some point the damage is irreversible and you die.
Am I trying to scare you? Hell yes I am, Eating disorders in general are very serious and Bulimia is second only to Anorexia. I tell you this for two reason; first to save your life and second because everything I have told you can be verified by going on the web and searching eating disorders.
The body works on somewhat of an electrical system as the body has a balance of electrolytes that keep it functioning. Your binging and purging have put those electrolytes out of balance and you could even have a heart attack.
My personal belief is that the reason for the binging and eating junk foods is they are high in both calories and fat. By binging it is your bodies way of getting what it needs to survive. There is no scientific fact to support this just common sense.
A very good friend of ours daughter died of Anorexia. She was a Prima Ballerina and obsessed with her weight. She was 28 and weighed 65 pounds when she died of a heart attack brought on by her eating disorder.
MY suggestion to you is: Do not do this to yourself. Tell your parents today and have them take you to a hospital emergency room today. This is serious enough that you could even call 911 for help.
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