What's Eating You?

** Updated 12/10/2010 800pm*** ( ijust realized it ended and was not cancelled but i still mean what i typed!)




Well hell i'll tell you. Society! Society is so fucking screwed that 50% of girls between the age of 11 and 13 think they're fat. The tv show; "What's Eating You?" has been freakking cancelled and i couldn't be more upset.. They allow these fat shows to be on and the 600 pound lady, or 700 pound man whatever it was to be aired and documented as well as other of people eating themselves into a coma and obliterating weeks of food in one day, yet the cancel tv shows about Eating Disorders or cancel documentaries. In all honesty IT'S THE SAME FUCKING THING. Yet the overweight people are eating all the food as the anorexic or bulimic is not or throwing it up. They are all under one category and that's EATING DISORDERS! Binge eating is classified in the DSM -IV as and Eating Disorder.

I understand that while airing these documentaries or tv shows about Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa may be dangerous because girls and boys may be given ideas and tempted to try them. It also spreads awareness and information to a parent, friend, or loved one that is watching the show to recognize some behaviors they engage in or personality changes. Basically clues them into that something may not be right they may be more inclined to get help for their loved one or maybe the individual with the eating maybe able to recognize and realize what they're doing isn't healthy and that they are not alone! To where they can be inspired by the person on the show to actually go out and seek help before its too late, or before they start losing jobs, friends, family and ultimately their life...

Showing the morbidly obese people and can be just as damaging as showing anorectics on tv. On this season (season 10) of Biggest Loser one of the contestants named Lisa Mosley, her daughter was hospitalized for severe hydration, what was the cause? She had begun to STARVE herself of food and liquid because she didn't want to become fat like her mom.. For others it may be seeing obese people on the screen that makes them think twice about having desert.. then its turns into maybe not having seconds of dinner.. not having dinner, skipping lunch and not eating breakfast as you add 2 hours of exercise to your day. I agree the same can happen with seeing anorexic models or actresses too. Girls aspire to be like them, to be that thin. Both of them are extremes. You either hate being fat or you love it. You either love being skinny or rather die before you gain 25lbs.. i know because i've experience the feeling from both. Seeing obese and anorexic people. Thats just the way my mentality and brain chemistry works. Neither one helps, our society has seen both a rise in obesity and eating disorders. This fucking world is obsessed with weight. You can't watch tv, listen to the radio, drive you car or go anywhere with out hearing about how to lose fucking weight or how to shave those 5 inches of fat off your belly. How to make your new years resolution goal after 5 years of setting it because you can't keep the damn fork out your mouth and your butt off the couch.. (sorry that was a bit harsh). THen the diet pills left and right; lose 15 lbs in 2 weeks with diet and exercise.. Are you serious right now? I hardly ate and was exercise all through out the night and lost about 7lbs in that time span because half the time i was on my knees clenching my chest because my heart was beating so fast i thought it was going to jump out of my chest. Not to mention every time i tried to get up it felt like the world was shifting and gravity double and i ended up back on the floor.

Eating disorders are nothing to take lightly.. Binge eating, Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, ED-NOS, or PICA they all are dangerous. Their symptoms maybe different but one thing they share in common is Death.

Which brings me to this, symptoms. The food, like however they handle the food whether they binge and purge, restrict, sabotage, hide, arrange, cut into tiny pieces, color sort, make them not touch etc. etc. its all just a SYMPTOM!! Just in case you didn't get this.. the reaction to and with food is just a SYMPTOM!! So forcing shoving food down their throats and forcing them to eat, locking the bathroom so the can't purge, locking the fridge so they can't binge IS NOT GOING TO WORK!! The those are actually the worst possible things you can do actually which is trying to control the food and their body.. It's GOING to make it worse. Not it might.. it's going to. You trying to override their control is just going to make them try and do the same and override your control and make them worse off then what they started at. Trust, the whole reason of why they are doing it is because they have lsot control of the things in their life, lost control of their life that it seems the only thing left that they have to control is their body..

And for someone to try and take that control away from them is the ultimate challenge. It takes time and therapy, or therapy isn't enough and your running out of time residential treatment or inpatient hospital.

Anyways, that was just my two cents on the issue just so pissed over how people can be so discriminative about seeing an anorexic on tv yet they let obese people run wild. If you take one.. take both! Both are damaging to the health..

Last thing is there is no cure for eating disorders. Period. You may stop acting in the behaviors and start eating healthy and not obsessing, but the thoughts are always, i mean ALWAYS hidden in the back of your mind. Its a daily fight that is not easy to just not act on them. For some its easier than others. All this coming from a person who has struggled with an ED for 10 years come February..

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