Hello there everyone
My name is Cheryl Ann, I'm 21, from Ireland. I just completed my undergrad degree in Biomedical and Biological Science and i will be starting my masters in Biomedical Science in September. I don't have any real job and i'm single woo.
Now its time for my story.
I have been yo-yo dieting since i was 14. At first it was a harmless attempt to loose some excess weight i was 140lbs, but felt fat at the time. That turned into anorexia and within 6 months i had gotten down to around 85lbs. I was threatened with hospital and i never received any help other than i "had to gain weight".
And boy did i gain weight! I began binging constantly and by the time i was 15 and sitting my summer exams i was pushing 170lbs. This was through binging, starving either 200 cals or 2000 cals on my binges. Then just before i turned 16 i got down to 140lbs again. Something however snapped around the time of my 16th birthday and i began to binge again. Once again hoping on that binge purge cycle.
Then something snapped and i began to loose the weight and i kept it off until my 18th birthday. I had been surviving on around 100-200 cals a day and it was starting to really affect my concentration. I never had any energy and i really didn't want to spend my life living on 100-200 cals.
So up to 1,200 cals i went and so did the scales! I relapsed minorly into binging yet, i am happy to say i haven't binged since February 2008. Thats 3 years binge free
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So this time i was fat from around Feb until October of 2008. Something incredible happened to me during this time, i experienced a sort of delayed puberty. I grew 2 inches from 5ft 5 to 5ft 7 and my body finally took on that womanly shape i.e rounder hips and shoulders.
This time i kept the weight off from October 2008 until February 2011. During time all was not well and i started night eating and chewing and spitting. My highest weight during this time was 147lbs and my lowest was 126lbs. I was really happy then.
For reasons i don't want to go into my weight shot up again. It has still sorta stayed up. I guess because if you read my post you will see that in terms of dieting and stuff, i'm tired. I'm sick of this battle, i am worn out yet i can't give up, not totally.
So yeah, thats me, nice to meet you all