So I was talking to a work colleague today who was interested in how I managed to get so thin. I tried the standard "Er, I have ANOREXIA, an inherent fear of food and weight gain."
But that just was not enough for her, she wanted to know what I did to lose so much weight. I think what made me so annoyed was the fact that this colleague is overweight and on a permanent diet. She was only interested because she hoped she could pick up some tips. She thought that Anorexia was essentially a diet.
So I told her some of my many rules: No more than 500 calories a day, 1 hour of exercise everyday, no fast foods, nothing "full fat" Extra calories meant extra exercise...
Did she get it then? Did she hell. She asked me to draw her up a diet plan based on mine. So I did, and here it is:
Breakfast: 1 apple
Mid morning: 1 rice cake, 1 extra light cheese triangle
Lunch: Weight watchers chicken noodle soup
Pm: fat free yoghurt
Dinner: salad, 1 hard boiled egg, slice of ham
total: 400 calories
Enough to send most people running for the hills you would think?
She's starting tomorrow.
I don't know if I am more angry or saddened by her. She is clearly incredibly ignorant to EDs, but she is also desperate to lose weight at any cost. Well, that's something I do identify with.
:(
ReplyDeletehow totally frustrating.
i'm sure she'll give up after a day or two.... this makes me a little bit angry about her ignorance.
just a question, but did you ever binge during your anorexia? as i binge about once a week and it makes my eating disorder feel invalid (i restrict under 800calories the other days and fast once a week). i just feel like too much of a greedy bitch to have anorexia.
keep fighting, you're brilliant xxx
Oh hell, I used to binge at least once a week! I don't know what was worse actually, the restricting or the binging. I can totally say that you are not a fat greedy bitch. To eat less than 800 cals a day, 6 days a week is a pretty good example of starvation. LOL, I made that sound like a good thing :/
ReplyDeleteNice to know people are reading this xx