how do i hide my eating disorder from my coach?
Question by jadehope: how do i hide my eating disorder from my coach?
i was just diagnosed with anorexia and bulimia. the exception with the bulimia is that i only purge if i have more then 500 calories in one day. i never binge. (which is sort of uncharacteristic of bulimia), but to me a 500+ calorie day is a binge i guess. i was wondering how i can hide this diagnosis from my softball coach. the assistant coach has noticed i have cuts on my knuckles (from sticking my fingers down by throat to induce vomiting. the cuts are from my teeth). although that is the real reason for the cuts, i told her it was from a diving play i made at 3rd base. i’m worried she will start to put all of my symptoms together and tell the head coach. how can i hide my weight loss, the cuts on my knuckles, constant sore throat, paleness, weakness, and always being cold? basically, how can i hide my anorexia and bulimia from my coaches?
additional info.
female
age 18
5 ft 4 in
98.2 lbs
Best answer:
Answer by argmyidideasaretaken
See a doc. We need 1200 + calories a day, or we die. 2000-2500 is normal. A binge is like 4000 in one day, but nothing to fuss over. Stop exercising, you don’t need to be any thinner. You need to be chubbier, it’s healthier and far more attractive. You can’t hide it. Open out to your coach, maybe he can help you.
Answer by mercedesblanca
You shouldn’t hide it. You have a problem, and you need to focus on it. If you love softball, then treat it as a reward for battling your condition. You don’t need to be on the team burning non-existent calories right now. Set a goal with your medical practitioner, speak with your coaches, and together set a goal to gain X amount of pounds to rejoin the team…
I get some people don’t like chunky folks but honestly, starvation isn’t a good look on anyone either…Since this is a mental issue- have you ever just sat down and wondered WHY your killing yourself (and yes you very easily can, or cause LIFE LONG problems)? What is your end game? To be pretty? Having your teeth rot from the constant acid erosion from vomiting isn’t pretty. To avoid love handles? I think I’d rather fall in love with someone with junk in the trunk than hair that falls out every time we kiss… Is it to stop people rejecting you? That will happen with walking skeletons too. Or is because your body is the only thing you control? I don’t think your controlling much if your letting society control how you think of your own body. Seriously the magazines take the prettiest women of the world and they STILL airbrush them and you think those figures are meant to be achievable?
If a man is only interested in you because of how you look- then your the stupid one for staying. It is like the line men use, “If you love me, you’ll have sex with me..” and stupid women fall for it. They never stop to say, “If YOU loved me, you’d respect me enough to wait.”
You seriously need to get your head out of lala land = you have a serious battle and your life is on the line. It’s not glamorous, it’s not fun. There’s a french model who suffers from anorexia you need to look up her billboards (I forget her name), to see what she did to herself.
At the end though- you will not get better until YOU decide to start helping yourself first. Somehow though, I’d choose pounds over acid erosion in the esophagus, rotting teeth (just like a meth addict), no hair, lack of a sex drive etc…
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