Scary Statistics

1 out of 4 females have disordered eating. 1 out of 10 males have disordered eating. It's easy to check this stat, just look around the people you know, is this about right? More? Maybe less. My experience is that it's a bit more. Imagine if we all woke up with blue hair... Los Angeles would look like a Marge Simpson convention!

Is this what we want? Do I want this? Do you??

What about wanting to be the healthiest (and therefore radiant) you can be? What about not spending life wanting to be someone else... wanting to have her body, his body, her skin, his skin, her figure... her hair, his hair... this is what I spent YEARS doing. YEARS. That was time I don't get back. Not to mention that my life has been SHORTENED as a result of my eating disorder behaviors... I wanted someone else's body all right... and I got it, I got an OLDER woman's body... I have osteoporosis now. I'm only 27 years old and most people who have osteoporosis (or any other bone degeneration, like osteopena) are 60 years old!!!!! Either that, or they are eating disordered. Is that what you want? To spend YEARS just wanting... to be someone else... BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, because now I have someone else's body-the body of someone TWICE my age. I've aged myself. THIN AND OLD. You don't just get to be thin, you get to AGE and you get to TAKE YEARS OFF YOUR LIFE.

You WILL NOT get one without the other. Eating disorders COME WITH Medical Problems. Look closely at someone malnourished on the t.v. in not-so-far-away-is-it?-famine country. And don't tell me you think people are attracted to malnourishment. Did you know it SMELLS?? Your breath smells when you starve... see... I even had a boyfriend who could tell when I wasn't eating because my breath would have just a slight DEAD odor to it... the smell of my body eating itself. How charming! I could have spent all that time starving talking to him instead... getting to know him and all the other people around me... but instead I chose to absorb myself in stupid trivia. I don't even like math, never had, but I forced myself to think about math all the time with those stupid, stupid calorie to fat ratio charts!

What if I had taken all that passionate energy that I had formerly reserved for Duran Duran, & put it into my DREAMS & not my DIET?????

Just think about it.

I've got more AWFUL, AWFUL statistics about the state of our self-esteem as wonderful nice loving people which we are!! People with Eating Disorders are the nicest people... have you noticed? Anyway, if you have any stats that you heard, please share them and source if you know it, by sending them to me via e-mail. THANK YOU THANK YOU I appreciate the opportunity to talk to each of you, I feel quite blessed to have your attention. -Lisa

1 in 250 females has anorexia;

anorexia is effecting the elderly in record numbers;

1 out of 4 women ages 12-32 have disordered eating;

1 out of 6 people with an eating disorder is MALE;

2 out of 10 anorexics will DIE from their disease...