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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Supporting a loved one through anorexia recovery right now. She’s been feeling fine and full on ridiculously low amounts of food throughout. All of a sudden she started feeling hungry all the time and overall shittier. Her team explained that her body basically took all those signals offline because it didn’t have the energy to maintain them. Now that shes giving it more fuel, it’s turned everything back on and is throwing up every signal it can to get her to address problems.
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