Some of y'all already know me, so forgive me for cluttering up your screens; I'm just a little uncomfortable at the moment.
I don't overeat as a general rule, although once in a blue moon I'll go a little crazy and binge--did it this last Saturday, as a matter of fact. My main problem is that I got so obsessed with losing weight last year that I started restricting my calories wayyyyy too much, and throwing up whenever I ate more than about 700-800 in a day.
I'm a lot better about it than I used to be--I can get up to 1200 calories before I start feeling
too panicky. My problem, and why I'm still here on a site that's generally devoted to weight loss, is that not only do I still purge sometimes, my metabolism's basically shot after all the stress I put on my digestive system. My doctor has told me that I'll probably gain a few pounds while my body gets used to having food again, but I'm having trouble dealing with that well enough to relax and actually eat. So I'm trying to surround myself with supportive people who know (or are learning themselves) how to deal with food in a healthy way.
I don't feel comfortable going to sites about general eating disorders because I feel that all the anorexic or bulimic girls are judging me, because I'm not very skinny and thus can't possibly have a "real" eating disorder.
But on the other hand, I don't want to take up space anywhere else, either. I feel like a fraud talking with normal people about losing weight, even though I DO know healthy methods to do it...because I didn't always employ those methods myself. I post on the calorie-counting threads and in a few challenges, but I have to admit that whenever I mention my problem I get kind of embarrassed and start feeling like maybe I should leave.
Ugh...I don't even really know what I'm saying. I guess I just wanted to know whether y'all thought I should try to find somewhere else to go for support.