Why wont my friends beleive: I am dieting, not killing myself!

What do you weigh and how tall are you?

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Then deal with the real situation instead of disrespecting your friends…they don’t believe you, ok…how can you fix this?

They may keep bothering you about it, but if they see (eventually) that you’re healthy, they’ll have nothing more to say about it. Tell them that you’re trying to eat healthy, and ask them to leave you alone - if they respect you, they’ll back off.

However,if they see things spiralling out of control, don’t be surprised if they don’t lay off - that’s what friends do…they look out for each other.

Why don’t you read over your question again and tell us who is truly the idiot here.

You’re defaming your friends for being concenred about your well-being…what kind of friend are you?

Maybe you’d do better if you had no friends at all.

no, its because they truly wont beleive me, I never lie to them, not ever they are the best people in the world! why do they suddenly think I am. I’ve told them the truth I am just trying to work out why they dont beleive me!

well your friends love you… what you should do is count your calories for the day every day and if you’re eating 1200-2500 calories a day, you are well within a healthy range. There is information online that says that 2000-2500 is the recommended daily intake, and that as low as 1200 would be a healthy intake for someone on a diet.

when on a diet, you should only eat about 20% less calories you would eat when not on a diet, so if you usually only eat 2000 calories a day then you should diet at 1600-1700 calories a day. Any less and you risk losing muscle mass, which really defeats the purpose. Without muscle mass,you will be a thin fat person where your body composition will be a higher than desired % of fat compared to the rest of your body… which will make you overall skinny, but you will still have love handels and maybe a muffin top… gross…

You sound liek you’re on a healthy diet… but you should probably not skip lunch anymore. Take some fruit to your dance class or something. You’ll need the energy to dance anyway.

Well, you probably should weigh between 99 and 121 pounds. Since you are at the very low end, it is normal that your friends might think that you are anorexic.

  Normal Adult Height-Weight Range Table

http://www.recipehound.com/weight.html

  Average Teenager Weight

http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/average-teenager-weight-236.html

Please check out the three links below. They are from my Group and provide information concerning anorexia both first from an anorexic’s point of view then from sites with appropriate information plus information on bulimia:

Anorexia http://www.funadvice.com/group/ethmer/22930

Anorexia followup http://www.funadvice.com/group/ethmer/22931

Bulimia http://www.funadvice.com/group/ethmer/23470  

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