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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I had it for years and still struggle with this. So your “I’m hungry, I should eat” function stop working. Hunger become something you ignore and you get no signals to your brain that you need food. Food is disgusting.
Then you just go zombie mode, completely on auto pilot. One piece of food give you enough to continue. You learn how to handle the symptoms, like sit up slowly or you will faint. You just kinda adjust to it.
Then years later. You realize your “you are hungry, you should eat” signal never really turned back on. So its so easy to fall back to that habit of ignoring the hunger. Its just background noise
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