If not eating makes you go on starvation mode and your body hold onto fat, how come people with anorexia are soooo thin? Like, not eating makes your metabolism slow and stuff right?

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“If not eating makes you go on starvation mode and your body hold onto fat, how come people with anorexia are soooo thin? Like, not eating makes your metabolism slow and stuff right?”

-Anonymous

People with anorexia are not always “soooo thin.” Plenty are of a normal weight.

Anorexia doesn’t get rid of your extra body fat, then stop. Anorexia breaks down your muscles, one of the many reasons why many anorectics have a difficult time even getting out of bed. Anorexia eats away at your muscles, which aren’t as necessary as fat, then moves on to your organs, breaking down even your brain in a quest for nutrients. Your body wants to live.

When you don’t eat, you…

become severely dehydrated, which can cause chronic headaches and wrinkles, as well as kidney failure and seizures
throw off the electrolyte balance in your body, causing extremely painful muscle spasms and cramps
shrink your stomach so that eventually all eating is painful
increase your chances of heart attacks and kidney failure
stop giving your body the calcium it needs, so your bones become very brittle and fragile, often for the rest of your life
may lose your period, which can cause permanent infertility
end up with dry, coarse hair and blue, brittle fingernails
mess up your blood pressure, which may cause fainting when standing up
bruise more easily due to the blood lacking platelets
may permanently ruin your intestinal system, which may require you to take laxatives every time you need to go to the bathroom

When you look at the media’s version on anorexia, you see skinny young white women and just might think “Ooh, I could be that skinny too.” That’s not how it works. Anorexia is an illness, one that works very hard to convince you that you are worthless, awful, insignificant, annoying, bothersome, “too much”/”too little,” etc. It destroys you, even long after you recover.

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