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21 Real Life Heartbreaking Confessions Which Explain The Reality Of Living With Eating Disorders

21 Real Life Heartbreaking Confessions Which Explain The Reality Of Living With Eating Disorders

I want to be happier and the only way to be happier is to be skinny.

This is what I really want. It's the one thing I want so bad. I just want to be thin. If it takes dying to get there, so be it. At least I'll get there.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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If I died there would be nothing good to say about me. The only thing I did was change my body.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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Today I had lunch with my family.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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The biggest deception is that they think, if I just lose this weight people would be my friend.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I told my mom, 'I'm not perfect yet,' she told me the perfect anorexic is dead.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I started modeling so I had to be thin...So I went to the bathroom to throw up just because I wanted to be smaller...Then the owner of the agency took me into her office and said I needed to lose 5lbs in my face.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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Between March and December I went from 220 to 120 pounds. After growing up in a household where I was constantly told I need to be a certain weight. When I started to actually see results, I went overboard.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I always thought I was fat. It wasn't until recently when I pulled out an old photo album that I was like, Oh my gosh. I really wasn't fat. I've had a distorted view of myself pretty much most of my life.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I just feel like since I was 10 my eating disorder kept me from life. I would love to be a wedding planner one day.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I don't feel the my life is in danger. It's a fight for my sanity more than anything. The eating disorder is making me sick, and I'm ready to give it up, but I have nothing else in my life right now.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I want to be happier and the only way to be happier is to be skinny.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I want to be so skinny that no one can ever say anything to me again about my weight.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I can't believe I weighed 82 pounds. That's way too fucking much...I am quite possibly a fat cow. Why can't I stop eating? I feel so out of control!!!

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I believe my eating disorder is going to be with me for the rest of my life. But I've seen people get over the disorder and that's what I hope for myself. I use it as an inspiration every day.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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The day you find something that you want even more than to be thin is the day you're capable of recovery.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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A personal trainer asked me if I wanted to do a fitness competition and I said yes...One day I binged and said, 'I don't know what to do,' so he told me to throw up. I've been bulimic ever since.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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If they want me to lose weight, I'll just say, 'No No I'm not going back. F.U.'

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I'm scared and lonely. Part of me wants to give up my eating disorder. And then a big part, the strong part doesn't...It's got the best of me. I'm a losing battle. I'm like a slave.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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I want my self esteem back. I deserve a good life. I'm going to be somebody my daughters are proud of.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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Even if you take away eating disorders, being a girl is always going to be one of the hardest things.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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The crazy things about eating disorders is that it's so hard to understand unless you have one yourself....People say 'just eat.' I can't.

— Lauren Greenfield, Thin

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