help

[xJosie---x]

not eating for a week is bad 4 you and i no all the problems you can have all i want to do is lose some weight. would just having dinner every day and nothing else help or not, even tho you dont get all the vitermins and stuff like that. or i could have just dinner every day and a piece of fruit 4 breakfast. thanks.

[xJosie---x]

one of the girls said on here that shes struggling to lose a stone and she knows she can lose it not eating but she thinks she will but it back on when she eats normally again but why dont you not eat again like just eat lettace leaves and tomotoes. that wouldnt put weight back on.

[ChocolatChip]

That's okay sweetie. It's very hard to see other people suffering with the same ailments that I've had myself, especially this awful one.
And if you only ate tomatos and lettuce for the rest of your life not only would it be very boring. But you'd probably die within 6 months?
You need vital food groups in order for you to survive. For example calcium (for bones and teeth), carbs (for energy) protein (for strength) things like that in order to stay alive.
And believe me, even if you were still alive. It wouldn't be worth it, your mind would be consumed with eating/not eating. Counting calories.
It's a terrible thing, don't go down the starvation or throwing up route. (Besides, throwing up doesn' t even work!)

The worst time of my life was when I suffered from anorexia, not when I was being bullied, or when my friends looked better than me.
My life was consumed by food, I wrote pages and pages about how I was starving myself and that I must get thin. I went down to a size 6. And even then, I wasn't happy. I looked ill constantly. I couldn't go to college. I could bearly even walk. I used to lie in bed, crying, thinking that I was dying.
And I'm still not even well now, I suffer badly from depression, I bearly go to work, I bearly ever go out, or have a life.
My suggestion is that you don't need to change your body, as long as you are healthy and confident, that is the be all and end all of it.
See a doctor, or a teacher. Tell them how your feeling and see if you can see a counsellor. A counsellor will teach you ways to build on your confidence, then your size won't ever be a problem.
Losing weight doesn't mean you'll be happy.
Remember that if nothing else.

[daavedave]

if you are serious about wanting to lose weight,

go to your doctor or a nutritionalist

the doctor will be a lot more understanding than you think and will try to help you, they arent going to give you miracle pills or anything but they will talk you through safe ways of losing weight, also you could try weight watchers.. i know it sounds patronising, but if you go to a meeting and buy their book about what foods are bad for you(whatever they call it) you might see that there are some foods you can eat a lot of without taking too many calories or fat in...
eating foods that are healthy for a month or so may help you lose a bit of weight and give you the confidence you need to feel positive about what you are doing, the booklet from weight watchers is pretty informative and will help you make better decisions about what you eat...


i dont work for them, ive just read it, and as a chef it makes good nutritional sense, im not an expert on diets though... see your gp, keep coming on here... everyone talking to you will help you feel better!