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Oh my God! I,was watching Discovery Channel Show on. Anorexia, & Bulimia...

them poor, people talk about and eating disorder, they can,t help them self,s.

One, lady weighed 63 pound,s 22 year,s old, poor girl she just started throwing up to lose weight now she, can,t quit it became Physiolgical and is with all of them.

And Anorexia, is the number one killer of people age 15 to 24 Physiological problems.

Wow, the flip side of being over weight..... Id, rather be over weight then have to fight that! it was scary I ,must live a sheltered life because I, have never paided any mind to it!

maybe because I,was over weight!

well to get to a happyer note how is every one weight loss,going?

I, hope that you are meeting your weight loss goal,s.

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Thats nuts. Too much of anything can turn into a bad thing. But i understand feeling obsessive about wieght. I know im overly obsessed about my wieght. I even think i might have "body dismorphic disorder" so i guess we all have problems.

Kim

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John,

I happened to watch that same show last night, it was called Never Too Thin. I just happened upon it as I was flipping through the channels. I always watch any shows that look into eating disorders because I believe they are all linked in some way, including obsessive complusive bingeing and obesity. They are truly just flip sides of one another. The anorexics use no food to calm them down when they are feel stressed, something about their physiological makeup, whereas obese people turn to food to calm us when we feel stressed.

I found it very fascinating the work they are doing regarding the study of the neurotransmitters in the brain having an effect on them. Those very same transmitters, Seratonin, are responsible for depression and anxiety disorders. Interesting connection don't you think?

I don't know if we will see it in our lifetime, but I believe the research they are doing now, will lead to an answer for resolving eating disorders in the future. In the meantime, I have to use the tried and true method of lower my calories by eating healthier foods(1,200) and moving more, better known as good old exercise.

That's really neat you caught that and were able to watch it. Those poor girls were so very sad and they really didn't want to be that thin, they knew there was a problem and that they needed help. Very powerful and informative show.

Cindy

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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