You fall asleep at night
unsatisfied with the way you look, constantly waking up through the night
thinking about the next meal you have to push through until you can get away to
throw it up. You want to sleep but you know that you will lose more calories by
being awake and moving. You lay there thinking of the meals you have hid but
not yet disposed of. Going through the day with your tummy rumbling and all you
can think about is food, but you never give in. You will do anything until you
see yourself the way you want to. you exercise until you are dizzy because you
are so exhausted, but you know you can’t stop.
The people with eating disorders
starve themselves in order to make themselves feel skinnier. This is a average
day for a person that has a eating disorder, to them no matter how skinny they
are they still want to be skinnier and skinnier until there is no more weight
to lose. After forcing your body to lose that much weight you become much
weaker, it takes a lot of energy to just get into the shower and stand there,
you just feel weak. Whenever you see yourself you stare in disgust, and
disappointment that you aren’t skinny enough. Just wanting to be the “skinny
girl” a lot of the times means starving yourself. So many people put themselves through this torture every day.
According to studies on a website
found at the bottom of this essay, half of a million teens struggle with eating
disorders. A eating disorder is not just a disorder, it is a illness. It is
very serious and can be life threatening. It can mess up a lot of things inside
and outside of your body. People might think they are just losing weight, but
they are losing a lot more. Disorders like anorexia can lead to ministerial
stop, muscle and bone loss, and lose of hair. Not everything that happens to
your body is on the outside. It mainly causes stress on the heart, higher risk
of heart attacks and sometimes even death.
Most people don’t understand how
serious these disorders can get. It is stuck in peoples head that you need to
be skinny to be happy. What many people with eating disorders don’t get that
you don’t need to be skinny to be pretty to others. People with eating
disorders don’t listen to the positive things they hear, only the negative
comments. Most of the negativity comes from themselves, when they look in the
mirror they don’t see what is really there. They see someone that can be
skinnier, or lose some weight in certain areas. These people never stop finding more things that they want to change about themselves when it is already
perfect.
You don’t need to change anything
about yourself for anyone. You’re your own person, no one is perfect In any
way. Everyone has flaws and things they would like to change about yourself .
Some just go to more drastic measures to do so. The best thing you can do for
yourself is to be happy with yourself and your appearance. As Jonathan Huie put
it “Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve
decided to look beyond the imperfections”.
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