Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Liz, but some of you may know me as desisky. I've been on d-land for several years and was the first person to create a diaryring for sufferers of all eating disorders rather than just anorexia or bulimia or compulsive over eating. That's actually how the administrator of this site found me and she then left me a note saying I might want to check this site out. I myself was a food restrictor/binge eater. A food restrictor is a semi-anorexic. It's a person who severely limits their food intake, but doesn't cut off all food. A binge eater is bulimic without the purging. I'm seventeen now and had the ed's for about a year or so while I was 16. Mine came with some self-destructive behaviors as a result of being molested when I was ten. Like the admin of this site, I'm also pro-recovery but I'm not anti-ed sufferer. It pisses me off when somebody calls anorexics "stupid shallow bitches" or something like that. People for some reason seem to think that anorexia and bulimia are vanity and compulsive over eating and binge eating are a lack of control. Another thing that annoys me is the "pro-ana" movement. The fact is that these people truly don't understand what they're doing to themselves and their families. The site that really managed to get me to understand what was going on is a webpage called something fishy. They have a memorial wall up on the site where you can post about family members and friends who died as a result of an eating disorder. They also have a list of the various eating disorders. That's all I have time to say at the moment and I apologize if this isn't thrilling. I'll post more at a later date.

~Liz~

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