insanity-isbeautiful:

The truth about anorexia

And all the things I wish I knew.

• You don’t lose weight like magic
• It isn’t all skinny wrists and black coffee
• You will never be satisfied with the way you look
• This isn’t an “aesthetic”
• It controls your life
• Restricting calories is tiring
• Eating one meal a day or less is very bad for you
• Eating less than 800 calories a day can potentially kill you
• Standing up and almost blacking out is not a “small price to pay”
• Almost all progress is destroyed by binging
• Binging is not going over your calorie limit by 50
• Binging is eating everything in your cupboard – whether it be stale, or sugary or fatty – until your stomach feels like it is going to burst and you are in so much pain
• Binging is eating 4000 calories in one sitting and then crying because you’ll “never be beautiful”
• Cutting does not make you “edgy”
• Scars from cutting last a hell of a long time and explaining scars to your family is difficult
• Exercising to burn 2000 calories is longer and harder than you’d expect
• Starving yourself does not put you in control
• Denying yourself of food is very very unhealthy and should never be adopted as a fast way to lose weight
• The voice in your head will never stop calling you a “fat bitch”
• You will never be “aesthetically ready” to recover
• This will stay with you for your entire life
• You will never be able to look at food the same
• Complete recovery is rarely an option
• This is not an “opt-in, opt-out” situation
• You will lose many friends
• Purging is highly damaging to your teeth, throat and stomach lining
• Purging can potentially cause choking and you can die
• At a BMI of under 16 you are at risk of heart failure
• You will cry every night looking at a bloated stomach
• You will never lose enough weight

• You are already enough
• You do not need to lose weight
• This is not for 6 months
• This does not go away
• You can run away still
• Please
• Run away