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    I have a problem with food no matter how hard i try to overcome it. I am terrifed to go over 1200 cals a day most days its only 975-1075. I relize in my head that its not healty i am not justifying this at all I just wish there was a way to overcome it. I eat in a healty pattern I eat 6 times a day its what i eat. I have a trainer she wants me to eat 1400 cals a day and sees no need for me loose more pounds but hearing that is not enough for me to up the cals i am afraid if I eat more cals i wil gain whight its a horriable cycle. I am very methodical about my diet to I food journal every single thing i injest and i have been doing that for quite some time. What is cousing nme alarm and why I decied to post this is that i just bought new jeans to weeks ago and now i can't hold them up on myself and the jeans are bought where not a large size they were a 6 which i belive is a good size for me. But not matter what the tag sizes in my pants i look in the mirro and always see something i don't like every now and then i catch my self in mirro an see just how thin i am and don't belive its me and then i look in a few mins later and see the fat agine. Dose anyone relate to me? Please post any suggestions. As my audtion draws nearer the problem gets worse. Some thing else alarming me is that i ust to get hungery when i only ate 1,000 cals but now i don't it seems i trained myself to accept only a 1,000 cals.

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    You're anorexic. You need therapy and help; you probably can't beat anorexia on your own.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    You're anorexic. You need therapy and help; you probably can't beat anorexia on your own.
    i don't know if i'd go that far.... i think shes just nervous for her audition and is stressing out way too much about it.... Shes probably used to all the weight shes lost and doesn't want to go back to the way she used to look....

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    Anorexia is usually brought on by stress and anxiety. I'm not trying to be mean, just stating the truth. When you know you're too skinny but you just see fat in the mirror, and you're obsessing about food to the point of writing down everything you eat, and you're deliberately starving yourself, that is anorexia nervosa. It's a mental illness and it requires treatment.

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    I am not offened by yeks statment after a reread my post i would say the same thing to me. I think it dose have alot to do with my nerves about the audition I realy want to get in to this club. www.ptsshowclub.com its seems like a big deal place. i realy need to watch if i am not anerxic yet i am sliding down that path quikly and I don't want that. I don't look like a classic anerxiox though i have curves but I am in a good place right now physically mentaly not so much. I am proud of the fact that i am not proud of the fact i only take in 1,000 cals a day i don't see it as a badge of honor. I just want to be able to fix it i am going to try on my own after my audtion but if that dose not work theorpy is an option. I am opened to all suggestions.

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    You're starving to death, babe. Maybe think about how you'll look at your audition if your hair is dull and falling out, you have hollows under your eyes, and you don't have enough energy to dance. Maybe that's not the case yet, but if you continue along this path then it will be soon. Believe me, I have worked with a LOT of anorexic actresses. They think they're beautiful just because they're thin, but it's obvious that they're malnourished and it's not attractive at all.

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    I'm gonna have to agree with the therapy thing here.
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    I agree, you do have food issues. Therapy would be a great first step to figure out what you need to do to work through this.

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    I know this is going to sound bad, but really, its just a stripclub audition. I'm sure you look lovely,You're not trying out for the Kirov Ballet sweets. Listen to your trainer, she is looking out for your health.

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    I started seeing someone about food/ body issues...phew. It's a big ol' mess, once you pop the hood. Many, many underlying issues can quite often manifest themselves in behaviour issues (ie- eating disorders). I think you know it's a problem already- you're having anxiety over doing something that's healthy.

    Anyway, before it starts to hurt you more, try to talk to someone maybe? Once these little things become a habit, they're harder to tackle. Nip it in the bud!

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    Starving yourself to this extreme for an audition is not a good idea. It's most likely gonna go one of two ways.

    1. Okay, so yeah, you starve yourself and lose an absolute tonne of weight, you get super skinny, and you get the job. Then what? How secure is your job? You're gonna constantly have to worry, "What if I gain 5lbs? Will I get fired? How much do I have to starve myself to maintain my job?" You can't live like this long term.

    2. You starve yourself, you get super skinny, and you don't get the job. Maybe you get rejected because you're far too thin and you look malnourished and the club owners don't want that. But do you know what your head is going to tell you? "You didn't get hired because you're too FAT".

    It's a destructive path that you're on, and if you keep going like this it's not going to end well. I'd recommend talking to someone. Maybe that club isn't right for you, if you're feeling so much pressure to harm your body to work there?

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    I'm with the others as far as therapy, but there's one thing you should do immediately: Take your food journal and rip it up, burn it, then dispose of the ashes. Stop writing down everything you eat and find someone to talk to about this.

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    I realy appriate all of your posts I am takeing everything in and I am going find a way to deal with this. It will take me some to part with my food journal but its running out of paper so maybe is just won't get a new one I am defintly strongly consering geting some help with this.

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    How you are sounds like how I was for 10 years. Do you know how sad it is for me to look back at how sad and miserable a decade of my life was? For 10 years my life revolved around food...there's an ana saying, "My day...measured in kilograms and calories"...and that's what it was. I would spend the morning planning what I was going to eat, trying to get in as few calories as I could whilst eating as frequently as possible to trick myself otherwise. I would then write down every single thing that went into my mouth and I would be so depressed if I ate something that wasn't planned. People would tell me I was skinny, all my friends would say I was skinny, but it fell on deaf ears, and everytime I didn't come first in a dancing competition, I always told myself it was because the other girl was skinnier than me. The scales were telling me I was underweight, but all I saw was a big fatty.

    My weight was all over the place. I could go for months at a time but eventually I would break and I'd gain back more weight than I had had before. For 10 years my body was a yo yo.

    But I refused to get help. It wasn't until I started dancing and the stress and pressure I put on myself increased so much that my doctor stepped in and did something about it. It had gotten to the point where I'd starve throughout class because I was too scared to eat anything not made by me..

    Anyways, long story, but what I'm trying to demonstrate is, stop this now before it goes too far. Don't waste so much of your life like I did. It's hard for me to comprehend now just how scared of food I was - I'm not entirely better, I still have issues, and I'm always catching myself before I relapse, but at least now I don't get scared to eat, now I eat the amount of calories I should be eating, and I balance it out with exercise, rather than working out what my basic metabolism needs and only consuming that many...

    Please don't let your life become what mine was like. Because I haven't even mentioned the part where my regular-like-clockwork-painless periods stopped (they have restarted though now, and they've never been regular since, and the pain is indescribable), 1/3 of my hair fell out, and now have major issues with stomach ulcers.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    You're anorexic. You need therapy and help; you probably can't beat anorexia on your own.
    She isn't anorexic unless her BMI is 17.5 or lower. It sounds like what she has is ED-NOS, one of the manifestations of which includes meeting all the criteria for anorexia nervosa besides the BMI one.

    I'm not saying ED-NOS isn't serious- it certainly is- but one of the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa is a weight criterion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flickad View Post
    She isn't anorexic unless her BMI is 17.5 or lower. It sounds like what she has is ED-NOS, one of the manifestations of which includes meeting all the criteria for anorexia nervosa besides the BMI one.

    I'm not saying ED-NOS isn't serious- it certainly is- but one of the diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa is a weight criterion.
    Medically yes, but by defintion she has anorexia.

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    Medically yes, but by defintion she has anorexia.
    anorexia means 'loss of appetite'and she hasn't lost her appetite as such. Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder, characterised by a BMI of 17.5 or less, an excessive concern with (and the relantless pursuit of) thinness and amenhorrea. She does not have anorexia without meeting all these criteria.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flickad View Post
    anorexia means 'loss of appetite'and she hasn't lost her appetite as such. Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder, characterised by a BMI of 17.5 or less, an excessive concern with (and the relantless pursuit of) thinness and amenhorrea. She does not have anorexia without meeting all these criteria.

    Then I'd say 90 percent of "anorexics" are not anorexic. Almost all of the patients in hospitals etc ( I volunteered) are hungry they just refuse to eat, but are still diagnosed with anorexia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sc0101 View Post
    Then I'd say 90 percent of "anorexics" are not anorexic. Almost all of the patients in hospitals etc ( I volunteered) are hungry they just refuse to eat, but are still diagnosed with anorexia.
    No, you misunderstand me. 'Anorexia', on it's own, means loss of appetite. The actual eating disorder is Anorexia Nervosa, which means that the food refusal is connected with 'Nervosa' meaning a 'morbid mental state' (as described by Sir William Gull, one of the physicians credited with discovering the illness).

    I reiterate that diagnosing the eating disorder involves a weight criterion. Look up the DSM-IV for Anorexia Nervosa if you don't believe me. Or, you could read this: http://community.livejournal.com/ed_ucate/606.html (or this: http://community.livejournal.com/ed_ucate/607801.html).

    If the OP isn't 15% underweight, she isn't anorexic. She may well have another eating disorder and may be in grave physical danger, but AN it is not until she drops below a certain weight.

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