Anorexic's Advice

Welcome!

The aim of this site is to give good advice to those who want to diet or are so desperate to be thin that they have resorted to trying to develop anorexia - termed 'wannarexia'. The contributers to this site are all those suffering with eating disorders, who are distressed at the rise of 'wannarexia', out of concern for the health and wellbeing of those who participate, because we more than anyone know how much this behaviour destroys your life.

There are two types of 'wannarexics' - those who suffer from an eating disorder already, and those who are healthy and want to lose weight. Neither can choose anorexia; those with current eating disorders must recover before attempting to lose weight, and those who are healthy must find a good way to lose weight properly.

If you haven't read this already - a brief rundown on why you don't want anorexia - here. It is important that you know you can't choose an eating disorder (unless you have the psychological disposition, although you can screw your body up quite badly with a starvation diet without developing a full-blown eating disorder), and if you act like you have an eating disorder it doesn't mean you have one.

What worries us the most about 'wannarexics' and people who use dangerous methods to control their weight is that these things don't work very well at all for weightloss (see Why We Hate Anorexia) and that losing weight is just not worth it! We use theses techniques because we falsely believed they would work and that we would be happier if we're thin, but many of them are addictive so we cannot stop. They're very damaging to a person both physically and mentally, so many of us use them as a way to self-harm or as a slow suicide, rather than for weightloss. Often we will do things like fasting or purging to give ourselves a feeling of control (when ironically - we're not the ones in control - it's our eating disorders controlling us). People on a healthy weightloss diet lose weight more effectively than an anorexic does.

Anorexics are extremely obsessive about anything related to food, weight, health and exercise, so therefore we know a lot about weightloss. Through having an eating disorder (and for some of us attempting recovery too) we have learnt a lot about our society and ourselves, and it's influence on our body image and behaviour. We hope that all we know can help you too!