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I believe there are many smart cookies who post here so I'm asking for a collective brain effort to try and solve my (sorta) problem.
Here Goes:
Previous to now, I have a very good appetite. My friends and I all claim to be fat but deep down we all know that we're not (I don't think any of us are over 50kg's). The problems is that now that I'm home, food completely revolts me. I eat from a feeling of obligation to my body rather than enjoying what I eat.
Obviously this isn't the healthiest of mindframes so is there anyone out there that can possibly help???
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Now that you're home, are you taking any prescriptions? I've been tinkering around with percocet, and they totally kill my appetite.
Otherwise, think there might be some issues. I haven't known a single female who wasn't (to some extent) obsessed about her weight. How does your family (now that you're "home") react to heavy weights?
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I don't know if I'll have an answer, but I do have questions.
Does your lack of "interest in food" relate to "coming home"...so to speak.
Did this lack of hunger happen "overnight", or "gradually"?
Do you "feel" overweight, and if you do, do you feel this way all the time?
Does your mood change whenever you look in a mirror?
Do you talk to your girlfriends about non-boy issues?
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forget all that 'questionnaire' bullshit!
*slaps soulfilms*
girl!
get a grip.
don't give females like me a bad image!
(i can do that on my own! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif )
wait it out.
i am sure you will eat again.
and who cares if you enjoy food???
your stomach doesn't complain.
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by SHATOUSHKA:
forget all that 'questionnaire' bullshit!
*slaps soulfilms*
girl!
get a grip.
don't give females like me a bad image!
(i can do that on my own! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif )
wait it out.
i am sure you will eat again.
and who cares if you enjoy food???
your stomach doesn't complain.
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My response to SHATOUSKA is in no way aimed at Soul Films, as I don't know Soul Films outside of the internet.
SHATOUSHKA, you bring up an interesting side bar to the situation.
Girls will be Girls, Guys will be Guys...and when we hang around in our same-sex packs, our acts of decency, goodwill, practicality and awareness of those outside of our inner same-sex circle are usually replaced by more self-absorbed "for the moment" actions.
I just think it's cool when either sex doesn't always unconditionally support a fellow member of their gender, be it either male or female.
However, I still think my "questionaire" may lead to further discussion...otherwise, not enough is known to offer practical insight.
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you ARE perseptive, alex.
i like the way your mind works!
(and i am glad i didn't get shafted for that post of mine. i totally meant it the way you saw it. ~wow~ )
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LMAO! I finally agree with something Alex said! *stunned*
SoulFilms didn't say enough about herself to do more than GUESS about what her problem(s) might be. *NEED MORE INFO* or any response would just be smoke outa our asses.
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Well Tard, the good news is if we get more information, I'll be able to proffer a response that you can wholeheartedly disagree with.
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...which will, again, conclude that the response is still just smoke outta your asses. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
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More than likely, shat.
(Hey, isn't that something babies do in their diapers?)
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Ok, story goes that whilst away from home, I we ate well (in terms of quantity) and I had absolutely no problems whatsoever with my appetite or lackthereof. The first night I got home, my parents took me to a restaurant and I was completely nauseous by the smell of food but put that down to my having just got off a plane. Then the next day, I didn't want any sort of food at all. I knew I was hungry but I just ignored it and didn't have lunch. Now, I just don't want food until I actually eat it and then I find it tolerable. I think I'm snapping out of it gradually.
To the questions.
My parents call me Mrs Grape (as in Gilbert Grape's mother) but they also call me shitface and a whole array of other terms of endearment. Both my parents know that I'm not fat but I come from a family where my mother was able to keep a body weight of 45kgs (that's roughly 90-95 pounds) until she was 45 yo!
My friends and I almost never talk of 'boys'. We don't talk about anything that 'normal' people my age would such as 'boys, clothes, shoes, music, movies, etc.' Instead, we talk about food, our bad habits, each others' bad habits and we constantly bitch between ourselves (with no malicious intent). We're probably the antithesis of teenyboppers.
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soulfilms--
surely you missed a 1 somewhere in that 90-95 pound thingy. i dunno, call me crazy, but if i saw anyone over the age of 8 that weighed around 90-95 pounds, i'd freak out.
that's just wrong. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif
how old ARE you? (has this question ever been addressed?)
(waaaaay) back in high school, i never really hung around people--much less chicks. again, maybe i'm crazy.
chicks are freaks.
i'd usually spend most of my time attempting to figure out a way to create global genocide...
ooops! did i say that out loud????
what i mean is, i spent most of the time reading and noting how pathetic the average human was...
yeah..
thats what i meant. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif
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What you said doesn't sound like the anti-thesis of teenie-boppers at all. Not to me at least. It sounds like exactly the same things I heard everyone talk about that I used to sit in on. *I was a surfer-as in i could surf to any group or crowd and fit in, but wasn't a regular member*
BUT - before I get horribly off topic, I have heard of what your experiancing, or at least similar cases before. Why it occurs I do not know, however I know the people whom I witness gradually slipped out of it. For some it was mearly a few days, but I had seen and heard of girls who would eat very small meals, just once, or maybe twice a day for a week, 2 weeks, sometimes 3 weeks... relating the same symptoms you've just described. I bet the problem will sort itself out.
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shitface is not a term of endearment.
I've heard of "culture shock" that can be associated with leaving one environment for another.
If you are going to school one place, vacationing with friends elsewhere the next, than flying home...you could be experiencing a form of culture shock.
Perhaps the most important thing in all of this is that you noticed a change in yourself, and you noticed it quickly.
Kudos are in order for that. That rest is still to be sorted out in time.
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Oh the hardship of being called a teenybopper! I am so against them that I find it quite ludicrous to be seen as one. I'm sure you wouldn't think me and mine teenyboppers if you met us.
Alex: being called shitface has the same merits of being called darling in my family. We use those words interchangably. It's just my family's idiosynchrasy. No one's upset by it.
Shat: I'm 18 but I can't figure why that would be an issue.
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soulfilms--
not an issue, just a curiosity.
i never considered myself a teenager at 18 either. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif
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how are things going, btw?
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Things are much better thanks. I'm snapping out of it.
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fair is fair....
I'm 40......but I used to be younger.
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strangely, i cannot understand the purpose of divulging age...
however, in the spirit, i shall post that in a little over a month, i shall turn the big 2-7!!!
(er...dragondream, that means that i am currently 26...just thought you'd need help there http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif)
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