500 calories a day: Please Help:)

Octopies

Just had to correct you with one thing! I don't like when people don't know their facts and are trying to draw conclusions from made-up ones. Part of the definition of anorexia is refusing to maintain a normal weight for height and age. A situation where all anorexic symptoms are meant and that one is not is considered one of the types of EDNOS. If you don't believe me. http://www.anad.org/get-information/get-informationanorexia-nervosa/
Click that link!
However, symptoms obviously occur in the early stages when weight isn't actually lost yet. That's why I was suggesting to wait because sometimes it isn't anorexia at all! It could be just simply restriction or a radical type of dieting.
(Again, I am not trying to promote unhealthy behavior or encourage eating disorders).

Even if it isn't anorexia (I don't see how it wouldn't be, I'm sure any psychiatrist would diagnose her with it, check the DSM), this "radical diet" or "restriction" is extraordinarily unhealthy either way, even if it is temporary. Don't get caught up in labels, and dont enable unhealthy destructive behavior just because you think it isn't "technically" anorexia. You seem to be missing the point.

Also, people aren't rude for telling her she's being unhealthy (again). Why do you think that?

SithChicky

I'm trying to say this in the nicest way... Have you accepted the fact the you have an eating disorder? Please seek professional help from a physician, dietitian and psychologist. You're doing lots of damage to your body by depriving it of essential nutrients.

I agree too. 500 is not healthy in any way!! and still trying to lose at 114 was it? please go see a doctor.. that's not good.

SithChicky

500 calories is plenty (even lower)

OMG LOL that made me bust out laughing and that was pretty much my exact reaction to reading that comment

MILFdoesabodyGd

Hmm... where's the OP?

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Probably crying her eyes out. (I would). Some people are so rude!

she said be as honest as you need to be...
she asked for it and she's getting it.
no one here is being rude we are just giving her the advice she asked for.

JoannaLouden

Your very next phone call should be to a doctor - one you know and trust. Print out your exact post here as it is a scream for help. Discuss this with professionals.
You are beautifully & wonderfully made in the image of God and He loves you. Now you must love yourself enough to seek help. You've asked for advice and you have tons of it here - all of basically saying the same thing.

ditto.

darrcn5

Sorry guys. I just felt bad because everyone was being so rude! I wasn't trying to diagnose or promote EDs. Just trying to be supportive.

Yes, because supporting someone in a quest that can kill them is SO helpful. You need to learn what is and isn't healthy eating before you go around sprouting off that some ridiculously low unhealthy number is "plenty".

kthomison

Your post really scared me. It reminded me of an episode of Intervention I saw where the girl was anorexic. Please seek out a professional. Start with your family doctor if you're not sure who to talk to. They can point you in the right direction. But, since you are living alone it will be alot easier to just stay isolated with your concerns. I think you have a misguided view of how much you should be eating. A nutritionist can help you understand what your body needs and why. Please, please seek help immediately. Best of luck and prayers to you!

lady_croft

But before you wake up dead, someone in your family may commit you to a eating disorder facility. This enviroment falls somewhere inbetween a locked psych ward and a 28 day locked drug rehab. Basically a bunch of people who have lost their sanity and are addicted to death by starvation. Everyone there thinks they look great. In reality they look like victims of war. They take all your things away that have any kind of a sharp edge. It does no good to refuse to eat here because eventually they forcefully install a feeding tube and you stay until you gain a set amount. If you get a therapist now you can avoid all this.

jenyanta

I can't add much to what has already been said, except that as I read your post, it seemed to be to be a huge jumbled mess of emotion, confusion, pain and fear. You know what you need to do in your heart. You know that this is not healthy behavior, no matter what you keep telling yourself when you look at the scale.

If the photo on your profile is really you, you are beautiful. and your arms are sickly thin. Please take the steps you need to, to get healthy again. To stop the confusion, and pain, and fear. Call your doctor. Call your best friend and take them with you for support.

You can be thin and healthy. Or you can be thin and dead. Find your new path.

Lisseth03

I'm trying to say this in the nicest way... Have you accepted the fact the you have an eating disorder? Please seek professional help from a physician, dietitian and psychologist. You're doing lots of damage to your body by depriving it of essential nutrients.

THIS.

cloud2011

Please see a doctor or nurse right away. Your story is worrisome and I wish you the best.
Good luck with everything.

kris10stew

Please get help. See your doctor and find a good psychologist or counselor with experience treating eating disorders.

nonafit

Reading OP's post....you already all the answers actually the rest of us just put in words.....plenty of words...over 5 pages here. So get moving.

beebee0925

I agree with what everyone else said. There's no shame in admitting you need help.

We're all rooting for you! :flowerforyou:

moonpieto

lol:laugh:

moonpieto

lol to his face.

Bailey543

Are people for real when they post this stuff??

dad106

Hmm... where's the OP?

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Probably crying her eyes out. (I would). Some people are so rude!

Of course you would be.. because people are actually telling you the truth instead of letting you live in a deluded little world.

No one on this post has been rude... all have shown general concern for OP.

If anything your the rude one for accusing everyone else of being rude, justifying that what she is doing is ok and attacking people who don't agree with your mindset.

To OP:
My breakfast alone is what you eat in a day.

Please seek some help before this goes any further!

moonpieto

First I saw what I suspected was an anorexic (may have been critically ill instead) then I got to know one quite well. After confronting the anorexic I was told I am dowdy need to have a new hairdo and look two months pregnant. Okay well.....

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