TheOddSockGirl wrote:
I'm fed-up with it... I hate the way I look... Nearly a year of being Bulimic and my body won't throw food up anymore... I now weigh 129lbs and I am 5ft3ins tall and a UK size 12 with 34E-28-35 measurements... Still too big, apparrently although people say I look OK...
I spend hours in the bathroom trying to bring food up but I just end up with a very sore throat and teeth marks in my hands....
I've tried starving myself and cutting down but throwing-up seems to be the only thing I can stick to.
Then I get dumped by a guy I am really into... I blame it on my physical appearence... My shoulders won't dissapear, either, and he even commented on how big they were after we broke-up...
I've gone and scratched my whole body with a razor because I don't like how it looks...
OddSock, it sounds like your pretty self aware; I tend to have the same problem although not quite to the degree where I'm cutting. I think your big challenge in your life is come to terms and be at peace with who you are on the outside as much as the inside, its hard and especially when you feel like its causing the problems (I feel the same a lot of times). Just try to hedge your way around it, try to boost your self esteem in many ways as you can completely separate from getting guys - regardless of whether you can land things or regardless of whether or not the pain your feeling is over real issues (it has to be) I think that's your challenge; you need to do what's right for yourself and when you have habits like this and flay yourself over the things you can't help - it not only makes you ill but stunts your emotional and social development because your priorities have you off somewhere in your own head, and its scary to think after trying to muscle your way through what you wanted to change and after all that sunk effort that what you really need to do - now that you've proven it won't change, is to come to peace for your own mental health.
You don't need a man to be dignified and be somebody, that and I think you'd be surprised once the confidence and assertiveness comes around just how much that makes a difference.