Mon, Sep-19-05, 01:41
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Faux-foods=Doh!Foods
Posts: 3,254
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Plan: Low Carb
Stats: 216/180/154
BF:
Progress: 58%
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by whyspers
Oh, I don't know...I guess I don't see it as any different than someone being exceedingly obese and choosing to remain that way. I've seen people almost militant that they are healthy at staggering weights. If you read some of the pro-ana boards, most of these girls just want to be thin...they aren't trying to kill themselves. I think that a good number probably do have some type of disorder, but there are others on those sites that have made a conscious choice to be thin and to exercise control over what goes into their mouths.
Just an alternative viewpoint.
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I think it's noted that when you starve yourself of particular vitamins, your brain suffers too. This is why people might startout just wanting to get skinnier but by the time their brain is affected by severely poor nutrition, it becomes something they often cannot overcome alone, if at all.
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