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Olivia
I have an unhealthy relationship with food/eating -- I know this. It hasn't gotten too out of control yet, as I'm not yet underweight, but only on the track.
I'm 15, 5'4, and 110 pounds, and I make sure I eat under the amount of calories I burned that day. Even if it's only 50 calories under, I feel content. But if it's 50 calories over, I just want it to be the next day so I can start over because I dislike the fact that I overate. I go running 6x a week, maybe even 7. I look in the mirror and I always see my flaws first; which is my stomach at a disgusting 30" I seriously hate my stomach so freaking much and occasionally I dream of cutting it off. I also hate my super flat ugly boobs.
I can't eat in front of people; I only do so at dinner because I have no other choice. But for breakfast, lunch, and any snacks, I always eat alone because I don't like watching people eat and I don't like people watching me eat. Food/eating and planning and counting calories/fat/carbs takes up a lot of time. I hardly ever allow myself to eat the foods I love (cookies & crème ice cream, and pasta), when I do, I'm super upset.
I don't like feeling this way, and I want to fix it, but I cannot tell my parents because they would freak. How can I fix these issues myself?
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Why do you do it? Why be so hard on yourself about your appearance at 15 years old? I did this years ago...I would eat everything with a spoon and I only allowed myself to put the spoon in my mouth 10 times. After every spoon of food, I drank 5 sips of water and I would only eat what was on the "outer rim" of my plate and NEVER what was in the center of my plate. If it was only 7 or 8 spoonfuls of food eaten, I compensated with 2 or 3 extra GLASSES of water. I did this for 3 years. From your profile pic you don't look like a girl that has a "weight" issue, but at 15, I will question what made you take such an "adult, sexy" picture and post it on the net. I can only imagine what every other pic looks like.
For a 15 year old that hates her boobs and stomach, you have your boobs popping out and on full display, so what's really going on is my concern...
Your eating habits are your choice and if you ask someone like me what I think, I think you have given yourself a problem that you choose not to control. People use to ask me all the time if I was sick, had the flu and was anemic because to them, I looked WORSE than how I looked to myself.
Perhaps telling your parents is just the thing you need to do to get control of what is really going on, because starving yourself is never as clean cut as just not wanting to eat. For me, I did it because I wanted to be like the girls I went to school with and they were genetically exposed to be being thinner. I grew up in an overweight household and I didn't want to be overweight.
You'll soon create a larger wall and become a bigger outcast because for some people sharing a meal, a soda and snacks is how we bond as human being sometimes. Sometimes a bag of doritos and a orange soda brings out the silliness and giggles amongst friends. It's just not the right thing to do to alter your appearance. Anytime you deprive yourself of a healthy lifestyle because you don't like like the way it makes you feel or how it could "potentially" make you look, you need to ask a professionals opinion on the matter.....
Your cute enough now to turn it around and once you do that WITHOUT someone else telling you to do it or making you do it, you always feel better about making the decision, because you did it for yourself and you did it on your own. good luck
Why do you do it? Why be so hard on yourself about your appearance at 15 years old? I did this years ago...I would eat everything with a spoon and I only allowed myself to put the spoon in my mouth 10 times. After every spoon of food, I drank 5 sips of water and I would only eat what was on the "outer rim" of my plate and NEVER what was in the center of my plate. If it was only 7 or 8 spoonfuls of food eaten, I compensated with 2 or 3 extra GLASSES of water. I did this for 3 years. From your profile pic you don't look like a girl that has a "weight" issue, but at 15, I will question what made you take such an "adult, sexy" picture and post it on the net. I can only imagine what every other pic looks like.
For a 15 year old that hates her boobs and stomach, you have your boobs popping out and on full display, so what's really going on is my concern...
Your eating habits are your choice and if you ask someone like me what I think, I think you have given yourself a problem that you choose not to control. People use to ask me all the time if I was sick, had the flu and was anemic because to them, I looked WORSE than how I looked to myself.
Perhaps telling your parents is just the thing you need to do to get control of what is really going on, because starving yourself is never as clean cut as just not wanting to eat. For me, I did it because I wanted to be like the girls I went to school with and they were genetically exposed to be being thinner. I grew up in an overweight household and I didn't want to be overweight.
You'll soon create a larger wall and become a bigger outcast because for some people sharing a meal, a soda and snacks is how we bond as human being sometimes. Sometimes a bag of doritos and a orange soda brings out the silliness and giggles amongst friends. It's just not the right thing to do to alter your appearance. Anytime you deprive yourself of a healthy lifestyle because you don't like like the way it makes you feel or how it could "potentially" make you look, you need to ask a professionals opinion on the matter.....
Your cute enough now to turn it around and once you do that WITHOUT someone else telling you to do it or making you do it, you always feel better about making the decision, because you did it for yourself and you did it on your own. good luck
How do I find my local cat ownership laws?
BARB
Hi! I'm watching Hoarders, and the poor woman had a pet limit in her community. D:
Where do I find my local pet keeping laws?
I looks on my town website, but it just talks about dogs and nuisance animals. I don't want to call anywhere, what if I'm over the limit? D:
Answer
If you found their web site, you should be able to find the limit on cats in one of those ordinances. Look again.
If you want to call city hall and ask them and you are worried they will be able to track the call to you, disable Caller ID when you call. In most telephone systems you dial *67 to block Caller ID. Check in your telephone book or call the operator and ask how to do it.
After you dial the code, you will hear another dial tone, punch in the number of city hall then.
Just ask them how many cats you can have in your town.
In most cases, the limit is 5 cats unless you have applied for, and been approved to run a cattery.
These limits are put in place to prevent problems for the neighbors and the neighborhood.
If someone has more than the limit and takes proper care of them, gets them medical care when they need it, maintains an orderly and clean house, and the cats are kept inside (thus not affecting the neighbors) having more than the limit of cats should not be consider a violation of the law.
Now, if someone has more cats than they can care for and afford, that is hoarding.
Hoarding cannot be defined by the number of cats someone has. It is defined by how well they care for the cats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_hoarding
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Among other things, that wikipedia page says:
"Characteristics of a hoarder
An animal hoarder is distinguished from a person who keeps an unusually large number of pets, but who cares for them properly. A hoarder is distinguished from an animal breeder, who would have a large number of animals as the central component of his or her business. According to one study, the distinguishing feature is that a hoarder
"fails to provide the animals with adequate food, water, sanitation, and veterinary care, and ⦠is in denial about this inability to provide adequate care." Along with other compulsive hoarding behaviours, it is linked in the DSM-IV to obsessiveâcompulsive disorder and obsessiveâcompulsive personality disorder.
Alternatively, animal hoarding could be related to addiction, dementia, or even focal delusion."
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Here are some other pages about Hoarding:
http://www.cfainc.org/articles/hoarding.html
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090824/UPDATES01/90824059/1005/NEWS01/Chester+Twp.+tables+cat-hoarding+ordinance
http://www.peta.org/MC/factsheet_display.asp?ID=27
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/documents/02893062.htm
If you found their web site, you should be able to find the limit on cats in one of those ordinances. Look again.
If you want to call city hall and ask them and you are worried they will be able to track the call to you, disable Caller ID when you call. In most telephone systems you dial *67 to block Caller ID. Check in your telephone book or call the operator and ask how to do it.
After you dial the code, you will hear another dial tone, punch in the number of city hall then.
Just ask them how many cats you can have in your town.
In most cases, the limit is 5 cats unless you have applied for, and been approved to run a cattery.
These limits are put in place to prevent problems for the neighbors and the neighborhood.
If someone has more than the limit and takes proper care of them, gets them medical care when they need it, maintains an orderly and clean house, and the cats are kept inside (thus not affecting the neighbors) having more than the limit of cats should not be consider a violation of the law.
Now, if someone has more cats than they can care for and afford, that is hoarding.
Hoarding cannot be defined by the number of cats someone has. It is defined by how well they care for the cats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_hoarding
--------------------
Among other things, that wikipedia page says:
"Characteristics of a hoarder
An animal hoarder is distinguished from a person who keeps an unusually large number of pets, but who cares for them properly. A hoarder is distinguished from an animal breeder, who would have a large number of animals as the central component of his or her business. According to one study, the distinguishing feature is that a hoarder
"fails to provide the animals with adequate food, water, sanitation, and veterinary care, and ⦠is in denial about this inability to provide adequate care." Along with other compulsive hoarding behaviours, it is linked in the DSM-IV to obsessiveâcompulsive disorder and obsessiveâcompulsive personality disorder.
Alternatively, animal hoarding could be related to addiction, dementia, or even focal delusion."
-------------------
Here are some other pages about Hoarding:
http://www.cfainc.org/articles/hoarding.html
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090824/UPDATES01/90824059/1005/NEWS01/Chester+Twp.+tables+cat-hoarding+ordinance
http://www.peta.org/MC/factsheet_display.asp?ID=27
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/documents/02893062.htm
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