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’m not anorexic, I just don’t have much of an appetite. I regularly wake up feeling like shit and realize I didn’t eat the day before. I don’t know, the feeling of hunger doesn’t really register for me like it seems like it does for other people and, combined with a hair trigger gag reflex, I just don’t find it uncomfortable not to wat. I typically work very hard to schedule meals sort of like how I schedule workouts, it’s something that’s good for my body that I don’t have a strong intrinsic drive to do. To answer the question, I just don’t really mind the side effects until it’s been enough that I get light headed or shaky when I stand up.
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