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Hi, my name is Meg and I’m currently struggling with restrictive eating, bulimia and body dis morphia. I’ve been hiding this from all my family and friend and even my boyfriend for over a year. They just found out about Emmy struggles and they are teaming up with my therapist to get me more intensive help. Just wanted to reach out because no one is alone in this and to help me and everyone know that this is not a rare thing and it happens

Hey my name is Maddie. I have been struggling with eating disorders (Anorexia, body dysphormia, binge eating) for a couple of months now. <3

Hi, I’m here because I have a long past with disordered eating and food anxiety. I use food to stimulate myself especially when I am stressed out and I use it to punish myself and make myself sick from it. I would like to have a normal relationship with food but it’s all I think about constantly. I go through a binge and restrict cycle constantly and I have body dysmorphia.

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Hi. My name is Alice, I have had severe clinical depression for 3 years, and anorexia/bulimia/body dysmorphia for 1 year. I also struggle with Self-harm (mostly cutting, but I scratch if I have nothing to cut with).

Hi 👋 I'm E. I stress eat a lot 😩

I am 53 and have suffered from Hashimotos (and on Meds for it) since Age 5. Then along came Pregnancies, and my Children, then later Menopause, and it all went to hell again.

During a Period of immense stress in my Life, my Health was suffering badly, (basically my under active Thyroid was even more underactive than usual to the point where I would have died eventually but I had no idea how sick I was).

So after Work I was exhausted, and not achieving much extra outside of that, either in Exercise, (even though it was a physically demanding Job) or anything much else. The Stress of the Job was also a constant, (massive at times). And I was dealing with an undiagnosed Borderline Personality Boyfriend who caused massive ongoing stress and violence.

I was not sleeping nor eating properly. And eventually I gained a lot more weight than normal.

About 30kg more.

Since then, (have been apart from the Boyfriend since 2014) I have still had lots of Stress, and have battled with fluctuating Weight since then. My Thyroid at times acts up, so it has to be constantly monitored, plus I am battling Financial Losses, Work Stress, and otherwise.

Eating Keto/Low Carb is my go to Lifestyle most of the time, and I did lose 10kg last year, but I think my Macros are out a lot right now, so I don't lose as much as I should be, or I will have a rare Binge day, (like yesterday) where I screw everything up and eat like crazy, adding at least 2kg of Water which only depresses me more.

So I live with Self Loathing on a constant basis, and feel like just going to my Doctor and asking for the Stomach Sleeve Op like so many others have succeeded with.

Then I remember that it doesn't always last and that the Weight can and does come back, which puts me off the Op and I go back to despair anyway.

Anyone else here tried Keto, and are in their later years battling with Ageing Stress and feeling that you look like crap