So while you may think that temporarily treating your body like shit is OK, you may just be setting yourself up for a lifetime of food issues and long term health problems. She was seriously ill and almost died twice from being anorexic. After years of battling the disease and nearly losing her baby, she finally found a psychiatrist who gave her individual counseling. With medication, she is now leading a normal life. The hospital told me that your body 'starts feeding on itself' when you starve yourself to near death.
Some people die from anorexia.
Others damage their bodies severely in the starvation process. Your body will even use up your own bone marrow to provide energy to the rest of your body. Many anorexics develop osteoporosis at a very young age as a result. Let's take back our bodies and our health. We'll love ourselves much more for it.