Do anorexic people ever lose the hunger feeling or do they just get used to it?
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when i was 15 i had anorexia.  you eventually dont realize that you need to eat.  i wont say you lose the hunger feeling because it is replaced by other pains, but you just forget.
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anorexics see themselves as fat when they can be 100 pounds.\nand ya. how to be an anorexic. just dont eat at all. or be bulimic and make yourself puke
588015
When you get a feeling in your gut like your hungry, you get tense, you miss them
1120629
Please stop yourself before you make any serious, life-altering decisions. Once you develop an eating disorder, it is likely that you will struggle with it the rest of your life. I am on the road to recovering from anorexia. Believe me, it is not as glamorous as you may think. I am 5'5 and at my worst I was 76 pounds. It is an absolutely horrible thing to endure. Please, e-mail me if you need someone to talk to. sophiebear2002@yahoo.com
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Yeah, I've had an eating disorder for 6 years, i'm just now getting help/recovery. Some are just naturally thin, others are suffering from anorexia nervosa. They're in the grocery store because they're planning their daily ritual "binge and purge" session. It's such a chilling thought that people suffering from anorexia would actually compare themselves to other anorexics, it becomes an endless competition. Anorexia, like all eating disorders (the obesity epidemic as well) is the worst form of self torture in my opinion.
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Your eating disorders always come back to feeling a lack of control in your life......People have eating disorders mainly because they feel their world is out of control....So they maintain some control by not eating, sounds paradoxical, I know, but that is how it works.....I hope you seek some counseling to get to the root of your problems...Best of luck...
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i do not believe that you get eating orders on purpose... i think in my situation it was stress from my lifestye..i had no way out or control over my life.. my husband would alway look at these other women with good figures.. i just started exercising chronically then i started starving myself and when i ate it felt like my stomach was to big so i learned to throw it back up..i really do not think i do what an eating disorder was.. it was a mind thing.. my son came home from school and he worked in the counselors office and he told me about eating disorders...i went to a eating disorder center but it did not really help.. i had to change my whole lifestyle and get out of a abusive marriage and i now to dot have a eating disorder.. i had it so bad i was near death many times.. they put something into my throat that was green and i really felt sick then cause they made me feel full and i needed to throw up... so i signed out of there.. i had it for years but now i do not have it at all. i can eat foods now but i am also free to go places and get exercise.. no fighting, no physical abuse...so try figuring out why you feel like you have the compulsion to eat to much or starve yourself...but i do still want to watch my weight.. i do not have a flat belly now... i have a real bad back and damage from physical abuse..but now i just try to watch my calories and walk all i can.. but i think in my own opinion it had something to do with the atmosphere i was living in..seeing all these thin women and models men look at and want does not help a person much either...
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As long as you remain anorexic there is no cure for the binging.\n      The reason some people get anorexia isn't known. People with anorexia may believe they would be happier and more successful if they were thin. They want everything in their lives to be perfect. People who have this disorder are usually good students. They are involved in many school and community activities. They blame themselves if they don't get perfect grades, or if other things in life are not perfect\n Treatment of anorexia is difficult, because people with anorexia believe there is nothing wrong with them. Patients in the early stages of anorexia (less than 6 months or with just a small amount of weight loss) may be successfully treated without having to be admitted to the hospital. But for successful treatment, patients must want to change and must have family and friends to help them.\n\nPeople with more serious anorexia need care in the hospital, usually in a special unit for people with anorexia and bulimia. Treatment involves more than changing the person's eating habits. Anorexic patients often need counseling for a year or more so they can work on changing the feelings that are causing their eating problems. These feelings may be about their weight, their family problems or their problems with self-esteem. Some anorexic patients are helped by taking medicine that makes them feel less depressed. These medicines are prescribed by a doctor and are used along with counseling\n Here is a web page for help on quitting your binging  http://www.coping.org/selfesteem/lifestyle/binge.htm and if that doesn't take you right into the right page here is the home page http://www.coping.org/ and go to Yahoo Groups they have many groups just for person's like yourself struggling with Anorexia.
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I am a recovering bulimic and anorexic. I suffered with these disorders for 5 years and have been free of them for 2 years. Thank God! There is help! I now eat to live, not live to eat and I have a healthy relationship with food now. I personally had to go to an inpatient treatment facility because I could not stop on my own. I tried so many times to do it by myself. I'm including the link to that treatment center incase you want to check it out.\n\nhttp://www.remudaranch.com/index.asp?flash=yes
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YES!!!! i was anorexic and bulimic and I'm fine now. I did have to get help though, so don't think you can do it on your own!
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Not everyone dies from anorexia. Some people get better eat well and gain weight back only to relapse years later.My mother was anorexic years before I was born when she was young and she was very sick but after treatment she gained weight again. When I was a kid she relapsed and again stopped eating. I think anorexia can return at any time as you are never really 'cured' its always there, a constant battle. My mother is now 59 and she is still paranoid about what and when she eats, I'm always nagging her to eat better, to stay healthy. Most can eat enough to stay alive but still be slim although the long term damage caused by lack of proper nutrition is not good.\nMaybe your friends sister is bulimic if she's recently lost alot of weight and was a compulsive overeater? Bulimics and anorexics have the same goal (to lose weight) but bulimics eat then throw up where anorexics just don't eat much if anything at all.
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Ya its nice to lose weight and feel good about yourself just dont lose to much weight like i did. Every women has something they dont like about their body. There was alot of stuff i didnt like so i did something about it and now my husband is more happier. Things just got out of hand and i lost more then what i wanted i look anorexic so just becareful how u lose your weight cause it can turn to and addiction. Just be happy with the body God gave you i wish i was.
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Are you for real, or are just asking that question to get a rise out of someone?\n\nHaving suffered anorexia for many years, I am apalled that someone out there actually wants to try it.  No you f*****g dumbarse, you dont have any control over it.  You have control to start with, until it takes over your whole life, until it is your life.  You dont eat, you can't get out of bed to even go to the toilet because you haven't eaten enough to give you the energy you need.  \n\nIt was lucky for me that I was able to do a turn around when I did, and I was able to change my life.  After many years of being anorexic, I am now healthy and am so sorry I put my family and friends through the shit that I did.  (without realising it.  It's only now that I am older I see what I put them through)  At one stage, I know I only weighed about 34 kilos.  After I had my first child I weighed about 40, and cried and cried because I thought this was disgustingly fat.  Anorexia is an illness, it's not something you would wish on anyone.\n\nIf you want to go through the whole 'anorexic' thing, be my fucking guest, but I assure you, it is not fun, and if you ever went down that track I know you will agree with me.   How someone could be so stupid in wanting to experience  this is beyond me.  I wish you well.  If you diet for long enough and experience what I did, (which I doubt because it took a long time to get to that stage)  I  hope you go through the hell I did.
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I became bulimic. I was tired of being fat, but could not give up food. I became obsessed! Figuring out what foods tasted ok the second time around, when I could vomit, eating in front of people, and convincing myself mentally that certain foods were just not ok. I suppose anorexia is similar. But giving up food? I think they are both a form of mental illness, just manifested differently.\nhttp://www.wikihow.com/Discussion:Deal-if-you-Want-to-Become-Anorexic/Archive\nTypically patients pick up destructive behaviors just by watching others or gossiping, she says. They may learn ways to burn calories by exercising on the sly, for example--performing sit-ups late at night, pacing or even furtively flexing muscles while sitting.\nhttp://www.apa.org/monitor/mar02/partners.html\nI suppose one key factor (of the *many*) was the film "The Best Little Girl in the World" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082062/\nIt was supposed to curb the desire to become anorexic, but I wanted so much to be like her!
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No.  Bulimics don't lose weight because they aren't actually starving themselves.  They binge and purge.  When they binge they are actually absorbing a lot of nutrients and calories which helps them to sustain their weight.  When they purge it just keeps them from absorbing the remainder.  Anorexics are so thin because they deprive themselves completely.  Bulimics actually can take in thousands of calories on a binge.  A lot of which are absorbed before they actually purge.
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I suffered from Anorexia as a teenager... I was always tired and cranky. Once I started eating again and exercising in moderation I was a happy girl. Your body needs food as it is fuel for your body, without it you are a tired, cranky piece of sh!t!\n\nTell him to lose weight the sensible way! Eat lots of healthy food and exercise!
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I used to have the same problem too, but as I've gotten older, I have been once mistaken to be pregnant, but I swear I'm not! Haha. Anyway, I looked up what you're asking and here it is. I hope it helps.\n\n\nA person who has anorexia severely limits the amount of food he or she eats, has an intense fear of gaining weight, and can become dangerously thin. Severe or long-term anorexia can lead to starvation, serious health problems, and even death. \n\nAnorexia is not dieting. It may start as dieting, but it grows beyond your control. Anorexia is also linked to anxiety and an intense fear of gaining weight.\n\nCommon feelings and actions that are linked to anorexia include:\n\n1. Having an intense fear of gaining weight. \n2. Restricting food or types of food, such as food that contains any kind of fat or sugar. \n3. Weighing less than 85% of your expected body weight. (In a child or teen, losing or not gaining weight during a growth spurt is a concern.) \n4. Seeing your body as overweight, even though you are underweight. \n5. Overexercising. \n6. Being secretive around food and not seeing or wanting to talk about having a problem with eating. \n\nCommon signs of malnutrition from anorexia include:\n\nA low body weight. \nConstipation and slow emptying of the stomach. \nThinning hair, dry skin, and brittle nails. \nShrunken breasts. \nStopping or never getting a monthly menstrual period. \nFeeling cold, with a lower-than-normal body temperature. \nLow blood pressure. \nA slow heartbeat (fewer than 60 beats per minute). \nNot feeling pain as you normally would. \nPurplish skin color on the arms and legs from poor blood circulation. \nSwollen feet and hands. \nYellow-orange skin, especially on the palms of the hands. \nSome people who have anorexia also make themselves vomit (purging). Breakdown of the enamel on the teeth is a common symptom of ongoing or regular vomiting.\n\nHow common is anorexia?\n\nAnorexia affects less than 1% of the general population. Of that group, 90% are female. Anorexia usually begins during the teen years, but it can develop in early childhood. A few cases first occur in adulthood. It happens in people of all races, although white females are most often affected. Young people who are in sports or in work that requires a certain body type (such as wrestling, ballet, or modeling) are also at increased risk for developing anorexia.