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When did your eating disorder begin and how long have you had it?

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I was 13 years old. I had a stepfather who was very abusive and always telling me I was fat and calling me fat names. I was 5'2 in height and weighed 127 lbs. I began to lose weight and got down to 98 lbs.

I did this by purging and exercise like crazy. I only ate about 500-600 calories a day. I ate nothing while at school.

I hid the exercise at night. During the day I would ride my bike everywhere and do all kinds of exercises away from the house and during the night I would exercise in bed quietly so my parents would not hear me. I would do this in bed for about an hour to two hours each night.

It didn't last very long maybe a year. Then I started gaining weight after some very stressful situations and now i'm extremely overweight just the opposite.

I have lost 50 lbs this year, doing it a healthy way but I have a ways to go.

It sad that it went from one extreme to another.
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Answered by a member of the I Have An Eating Disorder group
Posted Jul 2nd, 2009 at 4:17AM
It started at 14. Now I'm coming up to my 21st birthday. Sometimes I try to fight it, and try to be healthy. I always fail and end up back on the same lowly road this all started down.

It's not the kind of thing that goes away. Even if you "recover", you'll always have that same attitude towards food, even if you learn to control your immediate reaction.

It sucks and it hurts and it's horrible. But it's life, for some.
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