Is it normal to want to be anorexic?

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Can you not find something better to aim for?

Like being a great swimmer / athlete etc something you can be proud of that will do your body good.

You are young and stupid or you would realise that you only have one body, to carry 'you' around in and the last thing you should actually want to do, is destroy that vessel. Life's not much fun when you're a freak or laid up - you won't have many visitors :(

No! Grow the fuck up. I am not a member of your family I live in Scotland & iv suffered with it for years. You don't choose to be ana it choses you. And once it does it ruins your life I don't care if you get physically I'll it's what it does to your family & friends that I care about. You are just a selfish little girl that needs to grow up. You are why people give people with this disease a bad name.

do it.

Please don't do that to yourself. I have had problems with eating properly and I didn't even want that to happen to me. It just suddenly did. It is super hard to return to the normal eating pattern. At times I forget about this, but it took me years to be where I am today, and I wasn't even anorexic. Even now, at times I have problems with eating. If you do what you have set out to do, not only will you suffer physicalLy, but mentally as well. You will realise that being anorexic sucks and once you realise that so much of your time will be wasted. Years will go by until you better your health at least a little bit.

I'm the one who made this, and I've already done lots of competetive sports, such as synchronized swimming, gymnastics (kinda), and soccer. I've been fairly active my whole life, but I'm just a bigger build, and I have my extra "flub" and lots of it.. I have a lot of muscle too.. Mostly from my swimming, but it's almost like I don't have feelings.. It's weird.. And I know people don't want it, and it's something you develop, but for some reason I just want it. I don't know if it's because I want more attention or what it is but I just do. Like its hard to explain but it's like I literally do not have any feeling at all. I have emotion, but no feeling. And I don't know how to explain it.

I guess it is normal... even though I'm ware of the risks. Having "Ana" as a friend is something that will always be with you. I had recently decided to gain some weight, but once again I'm getting tired of eating till I'm full and a part of me is starting to drift back towards my goal... I realize that I can't get too "thin" for now because my family has threatened to force me into the hospital. I just have to wait until college and then I can lose as much as I want:)

My ramblings aside... if you lose weight, try to be healthy about it. It's not fun when your family threatens or makes fun of you for being "thin". Eat healthy. Go Vegan, but get protein. Exercise to stay fit. But know the risks.

If you want to, that means you want to lose weight. I am an anorexic and bulemic in recovery. I haven't relapsed in over 8 years now, but I do hate my body most of the times, eventhough most think I'm very sexy. So I feel the way you do. I wish I could relapse and lose weight easily, eat as much as I can and then just puke them or starve myself for the next couple of weeks.
Unfortunately, health-wise, no it's not normal and it isn't normal either psychologically.
Just give yourself some time and don't focus on it.
If your weight is a big issue, try other stuff that would help-just not as damaging as anorexia and/or bulemia.
I wish you good things. It's up to you to make them happen.
Xxx

How do you feel about bone loss and tooth decay?