Starvation/diet question? Can this mean life or DEATH??!


Question: Okay well I am 13, 5'5", amd weigh 85 pounds. I think I look great and don't want to gain anymore weight. I haven't had my period for 7 months though because i am too underweight, and I'm loving it. My mom says that the doctors are going to have to do some sort of tests and stuff and is making me cut down my time on the tredmill and pretty much watching me eat fattening cookies-eww. I can't believe her, i just think she's jealous because I am so much thinner than she is, but now I am scared that with this fattening food and less exercise I'll look like a fat pig! Please help me, I even started crying!

Answers: Okay well I am 13, 5'5", amd weigh 85 pounds. I think I look great and don't want to gain anymore weight. I haven't had my period for 7 months though because i am too underweight, and I'm loving it. My mom says that the doctors are going to have to do some sort of tests and stuff and is making me cut down my time on the tredmill and pretty much watching me eat fattening cookies-eww. I can't believe her, i just think she's jealous because I am so much thinner than she is, but now I am scared that with this fattening food and less exercise I'll look like a fat pig! Please help me, I even started crying!
people on here are probably going to yell at me for saying this, but DON'T gain the weight back. you will regret it. i was the same height/weight as you 2 years ago and now i'm like 110 lbs (i know, gross) and i absolutely hate it! don't let your mom or the doctors scare you. you won't even care what they say in the end.

i'm trying to get back down to like 90 lbs though, so if you have any tips i would really appreciate it if you could email them to me. here's my email address: starjuice811@yahoo.com

stay strong and good luck!
This is crazy! Yes there is nothing wrong with begin skinny but please be safe I want u to live a long life and if you gain a little weight THAT IS OK! I BEG YOU PLEASE DON'T LISTEN TO THIS GIRL! Report It
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that's really sad, and maybe you 2 will realize it when either 1. you are bed ridden w/bones poking out everywhere or 2. dead.
this is really really sad and also really pathetic, you show how selfish you are. i feel really bad for your family. Report It

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    • ur way to skinnnyy..u probally dont look good no affenseee if u gain some wieght than its healthyer nd yah..
    i would kill to be that weight. but your mom is right. you dont have to eat fattening stuff just eat more. and if you exercise you'll gain but stay in shape. you can die. people tell me im gonna go into a coma all the time... email me if you have more questions

    -meredith
    If doctors are feeding you "fattening cookies" you are NOT healthy. Of course your mother isn't jealous! SHE'S TRYING TO HELP YOU!! Please, listen to them. Life or death is right. If you keep doing this to yourself, it will mean death.
    You question is a little scary - you are dangerously underweight. Your self-image of becoming fat is distorted. Your mom is doing the right thing by taking you to a doctor - you need help.
    Well, you might have an eating disorder. This does not mean that you need to eat fattening cookies. But it sounds like you and your mother both have unhealthy relationships with food, fitness, weight and health. I don't think your mother is jealous of you, she's probably just concerned. You really don't need to be on the treadmill trying to maintain your weight. If you're not overweight any natural movement will be great for you. Eating healthy foods will keep you at an appropriate weight.

    It sounds like you might need to stop worrying about how you look, even stop looking in the mirror, stop being proud of the way you look, and focus on how you feel. Eating fresh fruits and vegetables in their natural state will keep you thin and healthy. Going outside for a run/walk, swim, playing sports/games, and dancing are great things for 13 year olds to do to stay healthy. Exercising is something that we as humans should not have to worry about, if we live an active life we don't have to worry about getting in enough exercise and being any certain weight. You will feel energized and happy. I do have experience with this, you have an unhealthy obsession with body image. Let me know if you'd like to talk further. I've experienced what you're going through.
    that happened to me about 6 months ago. I was 15, 88 pounds, and 5'3''. I now am 15, 105 pounds and 5'3''. I am skinny still but not underweight. When I look at pic. of myself from that time, I look so terrible and unhealthy. Also, I have not gotten my periods for almost 3 years still.

    Please don't do this to yourself. I am so sorry that they are making you eat stuff you don't want to. I promise that you will not get fat if you excercise at least 3 times a week and eat healthy types and amounts of foods--1300 calories or more a day. because its pretty much impossible for become a fat pig with all those precautions lol.

    well good luck and happy april fools day!!
    look at what you just wrote. 85 lbs and you are 5'5 and 13. you probably look like a skeleton, and i can guarentee you looking sick is not attractive. also as you as get older, most people will think you look disgusting. you are under a lot of pressure especially with society and what they feel is normal. you have such a distorted view of your body, and that is something you should not be proud of doll. you are probably under a lot of pressure from people at school, especially boys. i can also tell you as you get older, a lot of boys (the decent ones at least) do not like tooth pick girls that look like little skinny 12 year old boys. you need to know that you do need to gain some weight to be healthy. that does not mean you are gonna be "fat", and you need to realize this. you have not had your period, and that in the future could cause loads of health problems, and it could cause you to not be able to have children. god forbid though, you will get "fat" if you do want kids, and apparently that is gross to you.

    you need to have it branded into your brain that you do not have to be skinny, short, tall, fat, black, white, orange, bald, missing limbs or anything like that to be beautiful/ugly/a loser/popular. just be yourself, be who you are-and that is what is beautiful.

    your mother has a right to be worried, if you were my daughter/friend/sister i would be worried as well and i would MAKE you go to the doctor.

    work on your self esteem, and realize that you have a lot of growing up to do. and as you do that, you will notice a lot of things changing, and it will be for the better.
    you are way too thin..anorexia will bring u to death..i'm not kidding..
    and i'm not jealous cuz i'm thin but not like that (i'm 5' 5", 108 pounds) and a loooot of guys like me


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