SusanofO
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I had Anorexia as a freshman and part of my sophomore year in high school. I am five feet six inches, and my weight dropped from 126 pounds (which is darn near perfect for my height, but at the time, I didn't think so) to 93 pounds in about 7-8 weeks. At the time, Anorexia of course existed, but had not been given a name by the medical community. When I fainted at a swimming pool that Summer (between freshman and sophomore year), due to lack of eating, my neighbor told my mom I wasn't eating, and she took it a bit more seriously (she'd noticed I was losing weight, but my mom had at one time been a part-time model, and had never suffered at all from any weight problem, and thought my self-imposed "diet", up to that point, was a great thing). When she realized I weighed 93 pounds, she became concerned, and tried to force me to eat more. I threw food in the garbage, hid it, all that stuff. I was not hospitalized for it (at the time, there were just no programs of that kind treating eating disorders, that my parents knew of, anyway. I don't think that possibility occurred to them). My mother tried to monitor what I ate, etc. I stopped exercising so much, too. It took me a year to get up to 115 pounds, but since then (with one brief relapse in my mid-twenties), I never had the problem again. If anything, I always seem to be concerned about losing 5 pounds, but try not to become obessesive about it. -Susan
< Message edited by SusanofO -- 2/2/2007 12:29:50 AM >
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