ok before you freak out and tell me im crazy, read the rest. i know what anorexia and have done many projects/research on it and in know weigh do i intend on starving myself although news reports and even some weight loss doctors claim that if you fast for lets say a week, you can lose weight (with exercise of course) and clean toxins and harmful elements out of your body… now many of you are probably saying "starving makes you gain weight" but if you gently come out of the fast exp. eating fruits and veggies in small portions you can keep your weight under control and you will not stretch your stomach…. please answer i need to know (from past fasters) if this will work and approximately how much weight (with 1 hr of exercise everyday) will i lose in 7 days(1 week) thank you

What you need to do is start keeping a food diary, outlining what you eat, what times and if there were any emoitions behind it.

Next, take a look at the websites below for exercises. There are photos to show you exactly what to do. Good luck

http://www.changingshape.com/exercise/directory/typeofexercises.asp

http://www.shapefit.com/

I have always been so glad that everyone thinks my life is perfect. I never tell anyone anything but happy news, because I hate to be a burden and I like that they can come to me without feelign the need to listen to me. For some reason, just lately, it has started to hurt my feelings. I have tons of friends, and so many people who call me their best friend, but at the same time they are really judgmental of me (I never do that to them, so I don’t understand what I did wrong). I’m always told that I know exactly what people are talking about with any issue they’re having. In that case, how could I understand if my life was truly as perfect as they all tell me it is? Or, I have to get 100s in school, and everyone jokes about it and acts like I don’t do anything aside from school work. They don’t know about everything I do outside of school, from a job to volunteering, and they don’t understand that it’s my responsibility to be the parent to my own parents and to take care of my older siblings. They don’t know that I had an eating disorder, self-injured, and wanted to kill myself (it’s against my religion though). The fact that they tell me how perfect my life is makes it impossible for me to ever admit any of this. One of my friends was mad at me for not telling her anything, but anytime I tried to tell her I had Anorexia/Bulimia, she would start blaming me for stuff I didn’t even do and she would start going on about her self some more (all of that is fine, but I’m hurt that I got all the blame and apologized to her when she never gave me a chance to be anything other than a listening post for her).

I’m tired of being judged when people have no idea what my home life is like. I shouldn’t have to tell them when I don’t want to, I treat them all so nicely and judging isn’t fair (my friends take their anger out on me all the time, and I have always apologized and offered to talk about it and never asked anything of them). Why do people think they can treat me badly? They all tell me I’m the nicest person. So, if I’m that nice why are they mean to me? I always think that everyone has secrets, and, thus, I consider the fact that they have issues that I don’t know about.

It shouldn’t matter, but these past two days I’ve felt a little saddened by it all. I work really hard at everything I do, those straight 100s led me to my eating disorder and to a breakdown. I hate that people joke about me being obsessed as if I’m selfish to want to get into medical school, none of my friends were willing to give up eating and sleeping to study more, I was, how does that make me a bad person? And, my ED wasn’t selfish, because I lied flawlessly and everyone saw my smile and continued asking me for advice and telling me how lucky I was. My own family missed it. I’m tired of being called selfish online and by my brother, when I have never asked my friends for anything, not even for their friendship, and my own family treats me the same way everyone else does. I just am really hurt that I am constantly being blamed for everything; I hate myself very much, and I can’t handle the guilt trips everyone has given me since I was a child anymore.

I am SO sorry, I sound evil and wretched here. I guess I am though, and simply wish it wasn’t true.

This is really difficult to explain and a lot was left out, so I hope it’s not as pathetic a story as it sounds to be here. How can I feel better about all of this? And, do you think I really am to blame? I tried as hard as I could, but I feel like it’s all my fault. I just cannot take the blame anymore, I blame myself and everyone else constantly blames me, I have nowhere to put this guilt.

Again, I’m very sorry. Thank you very much!
Oh my gosh! I am REALLY sorry. This is awfully long, I didn’t even realize while I was typing it.

Well i kind of know how you feel a lot of my friends like me because they can come to me with anything and i just listen but i don’t ever talk about myself because i’m really private and i figure it’s not that important i didn’t go thought anything as tough as you i just use to do self mutilation and have never told ANY one that. they figure i’m the good kid with her head on straight and am always focused on school work and sports so i can go to college. But the reason they blame you for stuff and treat you like that is probably because you ONLY listen to them and never talk about the important or tough stuff so it frustrates them like my friend told me i don’t ever tell her anything but when i try she wants to talk about herself go figure, and she does because i usually let her because i don’t talk to her, so just re evaluate who your friends really are, and try to talk to them about yourself good times and bad times
Oh and sorry it’s so long : ( : )

has it gives you munches and when im stoned i eat my entire fridge out literary
maybe not even smoking it you could drink it in a tea or smoothie or cake

Well technically yeah. But not everyone gets hungry when they’re stoned. And maybe the person would chill out, have a good think about the world and realise nothing really matters.
Or they might just end up having their mental health problems made worse- it does happen.
What a stoner question haha

I asked the question "Christmas Lights – Are you putting yours up yet" – In reference to the recent news reports regarding Rochdale Borough Council’s current Chritmas activities – It was VN’ed into oblivion.
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My dear sirs…

This question relates to the activities of Rochdale Borough Council..
Who just happen to be installing their Christmas lights..!

Have I defiled Ramadan or something, because it beggars belief that some
petty minded individual could find this question to be in violation of
the rules..

Read the news report that my question links to.. and see for
yourselves..!!

I asked "Christmas Lights – Are you putting yours up yet..?" – An
innocuous question at any time, in relation to the Borough Council’s
extremely early Christmas activities… That’s all.. Nothing else….

Tell me where is the violation in that – without giving me the mind
numbing automated response "we cannot enter into individual dialogue" -
you already have, by sending the VN in the first place..!!!

Violation Notice indeed..!

What the chuff is wrong with these people..??!!!
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My theory is that these replies are automatically sent out and your mail hasn’t been seen by human eyes.

I love the defiling Ramadam reference! I used to get a bit snotty too in my appeals.

If I may make you really angry for a moment. The idiot(s) that had your question removed have had their credibility boosted by Yahoo’s automated reply.

Makes quite a mockery of the whole thing doesn’t it?

Are there any laws or rules being put in place to stop the media from causing/adding to eating disorders and body image issues?

For example, banning airbrushing in magazines or not allowing models with a BMI lower than 18.

The situation is getting better but it’s slow going. I think parents’ influence is the biggest consideration. We cannot continue to send the wrong messages to our children.

I’m going to be a junior at Penn State. My major is Psychology and I want to work with people with eating disorders. I know that in order to get a decent job I will need to go to graduate school. I was just wondering if there were any schools known for good graduate programs dealing with psychology/eating disorders?

Try this website. You need to pay for it though.

http://www.apa.org/gradstudy/