My Battles

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My Battles
Because of my eating disorder and over exercising, it affected my everyday life, my friends and co-workers, and life with my family.
Because of my eating disorder and over exercising it was affected my everyday life. I became very tired through the day. When I woke up in the morning it was as if a train just ran over me. I was getting eight hours of sleep, and still tired. I knew that I was tired from the purging I was doing. By loosing to many nutrients, it can damage a person’s body dramatically. I kept doing it though because I was loosing weight and looking great in my mind. I was at the gym two and three hours daily and they gave me some energy. By the time I got home, I was exhausted. My close, family and friends, commented a few times that I had bags under my eyes and looked worn down. My excuse was I was just tired from working and school. Not only was my body worn down I was starting to get a throat infection. When you purge your food, it causes the bacteria and acid to damage your esophagus. That is when I realized that I was hurting my body and I decided to get some help. I shared my secret with my family, friends and co-workers. Everyone was supportive of my decision to stop and to seek help.
Because of my eating disorder and over exercising it affected my life, with my friends and co-workers. It all started when I was in high school. Just about every girl in school was skinny and always looked great. I looked great too, had the best clothes, and was up on every trend there was. One problem with that was my weight. It was not like I was severely obese, but I was overweight. All the way through school, I dieted but it never seemed to work. Once I got out of high school I realizing my actions, I told myself that I have to change my image or else I will be overweight the rest of my life. Like every obese person, you want instant weight loss. That is when I turned to my worst nightmare...