Need Help with Anorexia recovery!

Hello and it's great that you are taking the first step to dealing with this.

To start eating again I think you should start with just one meal, maybe even half and work your way up. So you could have half a meal for a week then go to a full meal and then on the third week or so you could go onto lunch. Just build it up, you don't have to just bombard yourself with food.

You may add me if you like and talk to me anytime you need support. I know it must be really hard for you but I'm sure you will find people who will help you.

Goodluck hun.

Definitely seek professional help as this is a serious issue but MFP does support recovering ED sufferers, so hang in there OP and best of luck!

you just have to really want to get better. no one can do it for you. life will pass by no matter what so you can stay in the deep hole or decide to recover and start living a happy energetic life.
it might take feeling so completely fed up with how you are living everyday and all the things you are missing out on in life to change anything.

have you told your doctor this?

i would also consider MAKING time for a treatment centre... your health is the most important thing you have...

This. If you have to miss something to accommodate for a treatment centre, do it. Nothing else is going to be more important - what are grades worth when you are ill?

People here will certainly support you, but we don't have the medical knowledge to help you. You need to talk to your doctor. Good luck.

Hi there. I've been recovering for about six months now, without therapy or outside help. Purely self-induced.

There's no universal thing I can say that will make you want to start eating, because it's so different for everyone. We, the people who've went through this, all stopped eating for different reasons. I feel like it's the same for getting back to a healthy life.

For me, it was several things. I had a cardiac scare. I was tired of sleeping 16+ hours a day. I was tired of seeing my parents cry, and the exhausted look of my mother. I was tired of going days without food, only to end up bingeing on everything in my house eventually. I was tired of being tired. The first time I ever saw my dad cry, it was at the peak of my disorder; when he stroked my hair and told me he was so scared because he could see me dying, and when he told me he checked my pulse every morning before he went to work. He was genuinely afraid of finding me dead.

It wasn't one thing that made it click for me--it was several things that came together, and one day it just hit me full-force.

I started off ambitiously--so. One morning, I woke up and decided that I'd eat intuitively instead to see how it went. Woke up, ate a bowl of cereal. It was one of the hardest things I /ever/ had to do, and trust me, I wanted to just throw the damn thing out the window and go back to sleep, but I persisted because I was just /so tired/ of living like I was. I went for a walk afterwards, and cleared my head. Realised that I didn't blow up, I didn't die, and I didn't burst into flames. After a few hours, I stopped by a local sushi place and got lunch. Ate lunch. Had some strawberries and yoghurt a few hours later. And for the first time in what felt like forever, I had dinner with my mom. Before I went to sleep, I had some Hershey Kisses and somehow, it felt good--not painful.

It's hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever had to go through, and I don't think it ever completely goes away--I still deal with my ED thought patterns, and I'm still obsessed with numbers, but I feel so much better about living. I can function in social situations, and I sleep like a normal person, and I talk with my parents instead of fight with them. So every slip-up and negative "fat thought" I had was worth it to me.

If you want to talk about anything, please feel free to message me, okay? I'm always here to listen.

Check out www.youreatopia.com. This has really helped to motivate me to change and give me a better perspective on "normal" eating.

Blessings on your recovery

If this post is genuine and not trolling, then no-one can help you here - the last people you need advice from is a bunch of guys trying to lose weight.

Your behaviour is escalating and you need to see a doctor NOW.

WRONG!!! :mad:

MFP is called myfitnesspal not myfatpal there are whole groups dedicated to gaining weight on here and multiple recovering ED sufferers who get support from others.

OP don't pay heed to this hogwash.

No, you don't understand.

I've been nursing for over 20 years, including 5 years in a psychiatric hospital, and looked after many advanced sufferers of eating disorders both from a psychiatric and acute medical point of view.

OP's ticker states has lost 3lbs, is looking outwith her existing support network for advice and admits to not engaging with her medical provision - if you understood the first thing about these conditions, you'd recognise a dangerous escalation of behaviour here and this needs to be addressed right now.

We are no longer talking about "fitness" here, or carbs, or fat, or food, or even gaining weight - we're past that at this point and talking about dangerously life-threatening behaviour. She doesn't need support or encouragement from us, she needs an urgent medical opinion.

Go. See. A. Doctor. NOW.

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You CAN and SHOULD make time for treatment, even outpatient. Maybe it would help instead of just thinking strictly about gaining weight to think about being healthy and to focus on eating healthy foods. Maybe it will be easier to conceive of eating a bowl of oatmeal, plain yogurt or a protein shake than a king sized chocolate bar.

Smoke weed. Have chips and munchies near by.

I have had a personal connection to the OP's problem, and this sure as hell makes a better case than glaucoma.

If this post is genuine and not trolling, then no-one can help you here - the last people you need advice from is a bunch of guys trying to lose weight.

Your behaviour is escalating and you need to see a doctor NOW.

Um, not everyone is here to lose weight .., I would hardly call reaching out for help "escalating" ...

If this post is genuine and not trolling, then no-one can help you here - the last people you need advice from is a bunch of guys trying to lose weight.

Your behaviour is escalating and you need to see a doctor NOW.

Um, not everyone is here to lose weight .., I would hardly call reaching out for help "escalating" ...

What TigerBite said,

The fact that she is reaching out in any way for help shows a desire to get better and the fact that she is acknowledging her problem shows an IMPROVEMENT in her behavior, virtually the opposite of her disorder ESCALATING. I am not commenting to jump down your throat, but rather to give you a better understanding of the point of view of an anorexic : If she becomes overwhelmed by what she reads here, she will most likely shut down, feel hopeless and restrict some more.