Eating Disorder to Restoring Health

by Rajni
(Delhi)

I would like to tell you about my own eating disorder story, what I went through and how painful my life had become. And then I would also like to tell you how I cured my eating disorder and restored my health.

I have always been an active and energetic person. I never put on weight, always remained slim and thin until I joined my first call center job. I was a technical phone support executive and my job involved sitting down and taking calls for long periods. Continuously sitting down for long periods and inactivity made me put on lot of weight in my hips and thighs. My friends started bullying me and tease me about my weight, so I decided that I will do anything to lose this fat.

I started working out, counting my calories and ensuring every calorie that went into my stomach was burned off through exercise. I started starving myself and over exerting myself and my health deteriorated over time. I began to look dull, my skin looked wrinkly, dry and pale. I noticed some brown visible hairs on my arms and face that were not there before. I started having irregular heart beats and panic attacks. My blood pressure became irregular and I developed TB. Because my liver was so weak, I wasn't even able to take any TB medicines for sometime. I developed Iron Deficiency Anemia. I had developed acute weakness and persistent pain in my legs.

Those 2 years changed my life. I nearly died and couldn't even feel my own body for weeks.I thank god that he sent my doctor and guided him to save me.

My doctor knew and understood me and my problem completely and treated me like his own sister.
He told me that I was to start taking food at regular timings and prepared me a food schedule. I started eating again and underwent the complete 9 months course for curing my TB. I am in good health now though I still sometimes feel weak and have heart palpitations. But I am glad to have recovered from my obsession of becoming thin. I am more confident now and I eat everything. I just make a point to walk 30mins everyday and do some light exercises. I have yet to lose weight but I am doing it slowly now without starving myself and in close supervision of my parents.

I have learned my lesson and have been given another chance to live. I am most thankful to God and my doctor for helping me get through my eating disorder.

To look good is important but to feel good is even more.