Being emaciated does not give you confidence!

You won't be able to wear that bikini you've been dying to wear in the Summer, instead you'll be wrapped up in many layers watching other people have fun. You'll grow fur all over your body, so even wearing a t-shirt will be embarrassing. You will become confused & even easy tasks will wear you out. The smallest meal will bloat you up. Majority of the time you will constipated. Your own loved ones won't want to hug you because how skeletal you are scares them. Your hair that was once beautiful will become corn like, or even fall out. Need I say more?

Skinny may look glamorous in pictures but in reality it's living hell!

I should know, despite I'm naturally underweight, I tried starving myself to death thinking it will make everything better. 3 years later, I'm still paying for it.

wow this is so true. 8 years late im still praying for it just because i thought my jeans cut me because i was obeast when i wasnt i was under weight

You are absolutely right. I have been there, done that, and still revisit land of emaciation from time to time.

I don't know HOW to eat normally because I have spent approximately 15 of the past 33 years struggling with an ED. Almost half my life. It goes into "remission" from time to time, but even during those times, I have "disordered eating" instead of an eating disorder.

I think it is sad that anyone, skinny or less skinny, should want to wear a bikini, if anyone needs that much exposure they should do it at home and not in public places (just my opinion of course). A healthy body has some "meat" on it not an emaciated shadow of what it should be. MFP with its calorie counter is really great because it is a great learning tool. Now all the person has to do is learn where their eating pattern needs adjusting and do it. Good luck in your program, fg

I know this...I *should* know this. It's hard though, you go so long thinking that you'll be all of these amazing things at the end of the road, but it's a lie. You don't hear(or perhaps care) about the problems, you don't hear that you'll never think it's enough, you don't hear that it will be a part of your life(in some form or another) for a looong time. And once you realize those things, it may or may not be too late...you have this disorder. It was like I just didn't do things right, that's why this is happening. If I just did A, B, or C then it would be "working"....it never did. I know how this happened to me, and I know that it's up to me to make things better even though it's difficult. I don't *want* this for the rest of my life. Thank you so much for posting this. I need to hear it, and I can;t always tell it to myself... I want to live