do you ever see people making the terrible decisions and mistakes you once made and you want so badly to stop them and hold them and make them realize that this isnt the answer

please please please eat. please dont stop eating. eating disorders…are seriously awful and although it may just start as something small please. dont start. not even a little bit. dont see not eating as even a possible solution for losing weight. your body values fat over muscle so when you stop eating, your muscles deteriorate before your fat does. excercise burns fat INTO muscle. eating a vegetarian diet and staying away from junk food can dramatically help you in being healthy and losing weight without not having to eat. but please. do not ever see not eating as an option. please please please.

i didnt have a problem with not eating and trying to lose weight…but exactly the opposite. i struggled to gain weight. i was bullied through elementary school for being skinny, a trait that runs in my family. by 6th grade, there was a rumor that i was anorexic. to be told by people you look like youre dying. like youre sick and frail. to be compared to objects like sticks and poles. to not even be seen as a person, but as a skeleton. i hated myself. i would binge until i felt like vomiting in attempts to gain weight and it never worked (eating frequently throughout the day actually increases metabolism and so i was more likely to lose weight). to this day i struggle to see myself as not skinny. i look at my wrists and cringe because i can wrap my fingers around them. i can see my ribs when i breathe in. i can see my sternum between my breasts. all of these things i am aware are perfectly normal but i cant stop seeing them as wrong. i cant stop seeing my body this way. even though i am 120 lbs at 5'7". even though my thighs touch. even though i can pinch the fat on my stomach.

it took me a really long time to become comfortable with my weight. to see myself as alive and not as some grim reminder of disease and death. and i wish it had happened sooner because doing that to myself was fucked up. i used to eat a lot of sugary foods and drink a lot of soda and now the enamel on my teeth is fucked up and my teeth are incredibly sensitive. i used to pick into my skin and blemishes because i thought i deserved it and now my legs are covered in scars. and i told myself it wasnt self harm because i wasnt using a blade, but it was. i bled just the same.

please eat. please dont punish yourself. it is okay to be a little unhappy with things on your body, but never do something dangerous or unhealthy to correct it. just like picking at my blemishes never made them go away and eating a lot never made me gain weight. it just made me more miserable.

please

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