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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As someone who has anorexia, we are barely functioning. When I was at my lowest I could barely get out of bed without getting out of breath, my heart rate was slow and I felt (no exaggeration) like I was just waiting for my body to give up every second. Your body learns how to survive off of whatever it has – I would go days without eating and obviously didn’t die. All the energy, for me, came from caffeine. I felt like shit the whole day but at least I could get stuff done
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