When I don’t eat enough, I get low blood sugar and I find it hard to concentrate and function enough to do anything. And that’s just from skipping a meal, let alone if I hadn’t eaten for days or was subsisting for years on a very small amount of calories. When I see anorexic people in movies or books, they seem to have enough energy to exercise compulsively, go to school or work, and other things. Is it that their eating disorder gives them anxiety and that makes them more energetic? Or does your body just get used to not eating and functions fine after a while?
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When I had it, I never really had trouble with energy. If anything I got a kick out of it.
I have no idea of the science behind it, but starving myself gave me energy. Maybe went into a different metabolic state.
The mental obsessiveness and kick I got out of using discipline and willpower to exert control over what I was eating (a pretty fundamental human drive) felt… adrenaline-adjacent.
It’s like you’re working on a project that you’re really invested in.
Obviously I don’t recommend this.
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