Healthy diets from various perspectives -- A perspective from a girl with anorexia

There are many girls on diets while they do not need to, and by unnecessary diets, some of them might fall into eating disorder.  This speech below is from the perspective of an 18-year old girl who has been trying to lose her weight by not eating enough, and has finally made herself anorexia.

     Here is an interesting video to give you the basic idea of what anorexia is.

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I have been on diet for 3 years, and now I am suffering from anorexia. When I was 15 years old, I was feeling uncomfortable being “fat.” Back then, my height was 155cm, and I weighed 47kg with BMI of 19.6. Now, I know it is normal or even less than standard. However, my friends around me were all skinny, and the models in the fashion magazines I was reading were so pretty. That had made me think the way that skinnier is better, and only being skinny like models is a fine virtue. I became very sensitive about how others see me, and started to think as though I was the ugliest person in the whole world.

My eating habits back then, was quite normal; not eating much of sweets or snacks. However, I was thinking that eating is directly causing gaining weight, which is not true. Since I did not have enough knowledge, I quit eating breakfast, then soon after, lunch and dinner. I was kind of happy seeing my weight on the scale dropping dramatically, somehow. I could not stop any more, and eventually I came to where my body and brain refuse any foods; I was not able to keep food down any more. I was in the middle of 17 this time, and my weight was only 28kg. How miracle I was still alive.

Finally, with passionate persuasion of my parents and friends, I started to take a physical and mental counseling at the hospital. I was diagnosed as anorexia. Now, I am able to eat little by little, but my internal organs which had been damaged by anorexia over years, could never be cured completely.