I've been through this site:

Bluedragonfly.Org

And was left disturbed.


I've suffered from anorexia before and it wasn't any good so I just wonder how can people convince each other that it's good to be anorexic/bulimic?


Thoughts on this, anyone? Just so that we can talk about something else? :P

Well... the two aren't called eating disorders for nothing, y'know. :ermm: When it comes to losing weight, it's dangerous for the body to have all of those rapid loss in three days or something, and it tends to have more bad then good (as far as I know).

Surviving on only water and air is possible, but doing so for a long time...

That is so true and it is not healthy.

I know it feels good to use weight and being thin, but going to the extent of starving yourself is a bad idea.

Once my friend was in this dilemma and she got so thin till she was nearly only skin and bones. In fact, other than that, even when she gain just one or two kg she made a big deal out of it.

So it's best not to go starve.

Sigh, that site leaves me dumbfounded everytime I visit it.

Funny thing is, I've never found any other girl satisfied with the build they're born with. During high school, my curvy classmates were trying their best not to eat anything, while my skinny classmates ate and ate and ate and didn't gain a pound.

I guess that's the female body--always flawed for some reason... I don't know about the guys, though.

You're right, Zhakeena. Psychologically, the more beautiful you are, you tend to see more flaws - just as much as people who aren't actually beautiful. Anorexia and bulimia are one of the effects of what people see in Photoshopped (I honestly can't believe those people on the covers really look like that... :ermm: ) magazines or with perfect superstars...

sigh... in a person's mind, what is exactly the 'perfect body' ?
A skinny one? one with muscles or just plain distorted ( I mean skeletal & overly abused) ?

I wonder how to help those whom suffer from all these funny sicknesses.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"...
But some people have a distorted view of themselves and others.

I don't know if my sister has an eating disorder. She's skinny, eats next to nothing, and thinks she looks awful in everything she wears. And then she annoys the rest of us by groaning over how "fat" she is.

Personally, I think it's all about the confidence. If you think you're beautiful, you will be beautiful,or something along the lines of that.I read it in some magazine.
I know this is cliche but it's ridiculous to be so obsessed with ones weight. Better to be proud of what assets you do have than what you don't have.

Y'know, I think I'll show that BlueDragonfly site to my sister as a joke :devil:

Good gawd...makes me so hungry all of a sudden :lol:

Yep. :P It's like, in a strange sense, I appreciate the people who are proud of being "imperfect". Striving for perfection sometimes makes you go the other way around. :)

Exactly. Let me start off this post by saying, that we are ALL FLAWED. No human being is PERFECT. When I was thirteen years old, like any teen, I would buy Bop and People and all of those other crazy magazines with "beautiful" people on them, flaunting their bodies. I was what you call a late bloomer, and I couldn't understand why I didn't look like these very attractive girls. Besides, all of the girls that had boyfriends were very pretty. This put me into a very deep depression. Instead of not eating, i gained weight and was overweight my whole high school experience, which was not a pleasant one.
During my first year of college, with the help of a friend, I lost close to one hundred pounds! How? You may ask. Well, he gave me something that I was sorely lacking: confidence. He said: "Diane, why do you care how they look? It's all fake anyway. Look around you, none of us is perfect." Thankfully, he's still my closest friend today. He didn't care that I was overweight, and though that meant a lot to me, it bothered me, so he helped me lose.
I wish I could tell you all that since I became thin, all of my problems are solved. But they're not. I still have bills to pay, and I still have to work. So why would you want to become EXTREMELY thin? It doesn't solve anything!!!! It just creates more problems and more stress!!! If you or someone you know have a problem eating, then TELL SOMEONE!! It may just save your life. I hate how the media puts so much emphasis on beauty and weight, it's disgusting, and it's one of the reasons why all of these people HAVE eating disorders.
Well, that's the end of my rant. Had to get that out. In closing, I don't know what this Blue Dragon person is trying to accomplish with that site. She's as bad as Doctor Kavorkian.

Confidence! Exactly!
I just finished reading a magazine article on how to lose weight. It told me to give up fries and fried chicken. Hell, no way! <_<
When we grow old, there's lot's of things that we'll be forbidden to eat, simply because we can't. Might as well eat everything we can while we're still young.

I've been down the starving path. I was 14 at the time and I was 65LBS. That was due to neglect and abuse. We had no food, I never wanted to eat because I knew that it would make me sick if I are anything more than a few chips. You could literally see my ribs.

Thats not healthy :cry: .

I couldn't help but be that way. My aunt "who cared for me and loved me with all her heart" was all the time in her room getting high or playing with her sex toy who was human and about ten years older than her. It was sick!

I had the agony of going through a mild eating disorder about two years ago, which I've since recovered from. However, I never really gave it too much thought, and yesterday I got to pondering.

What causes illnesses like this? From what I know, eating disorders usually stem from people feeling like they have no control over their lives. Not in my case though, since I never felt like my life is out of control at all. Therefore, I don't think this reason can be very valid.

What, in your opinion, is an eating disorder - and what is your opinion about it? Can it be helped? Is it done on purpose? Is it overrated? etc etc etc...

I don't think it's done wholly just to look skinny. I think there's a lot more underneath the surface than just that. Moreso a psychological problem rather than a self-esteem one.

Edit : So sorry for the revival! I didn't notice there was already an existing thread on this topic, so I asked Aly to merge it. Thanks, Aly! :huggle: