Recently I joined a forum for boys with eating disorders. Shear curiosity.
I always read that for each boy with an eating disorder there are 10 girls with the same problem. That's probably why I had never found boys in other websites that support this issue. I remember checking livejournal and seeing dozens of very active communities dedicated to pro-"ana" or pro-"mia" users, but none of them was a boy.
On this other forum, users are mostly boys and men, it is actually called "
Boys with ED - The Forum!", part of the support site
www.boyswithed.tk. Ed is our friend "eating disorder". By the way, "Ana" and "Mia" are also great friends, they're "anorexia" and "bulimia".
Amazing photos of underfed bodies are posted one after the other as each boy tries to thin out to perfection. Others post photos of their "thinspirations" or "thinspo", mostly male models. Occasionally we get to read funny stories that they come up with to avoid eating in front of other people. Good stuff to read with a good dose of irony and an open mind. It's incredible how chewing gum actually makes it into their daily calorie count..
What makes it so special is the fact that I'm talking about boys and men. GUYS not WOMEN. Unfortunately I won't post any of the content from that forum, since it is user restricted, but here's some interesting cuts from other public sites, inevitably, female examples.
From
http://proanaquest.blogspot.com/ Kat describes herself:
"I'm a girl of contrasts. Caught between (...) hunger & self-depravation [deprivation?]. The desire to eat and the desire to be thin. Call it "food issues" or call it self-destruction. Call it suicide. I don't care. All I know for sure in life is that I MUST be thin, and that I will do anything and everything to get there."
From
http://anabootcamp.page.tl/ (now disabled) we could read about the "Ana Boot Camp" diet, or "ABC" diet, fifty days with a promise of tricking our metabolism into high catabolism by means of a rather irregular intake of calories:
1: 500 calories
2: 500 calories
3: 300 calories
4: 400 calories
5: 100 calories
6: 200 calories
7: 300 calories
8: 400 calories
9: 500 calories
10: fast
11: 150 calories
12: 200 calories
13: 400 calories
14: 350 calories
15: 250 calories
16: 200 calories
17: fast
18: 200 calories
19: 100 calories
20: fast
21: 300 calories
22: 250 calories
23: 200 calories
24: 150 calories
25: 100 calories
26: 50 calories
27: 100 calories
28: 200 calories
29: 200 calories
30: 300 calories
31: 800
32: fast
33: 250 calories
34: 350 calories
35: 450 calories
36: fast
37: 500 calories
38: 450 calories
39: 400 calories
40: 350 calories
41: 300 calories
42: 250 calories
43: 200 calories
44: 200 calories
45: 250 calories
46: 200 calories
47: 300 calories
48: 200 calories
49: 150 calories
50: fast
From
http://thinobsession.zip.net/arch2007-07-01_2007-07-07.html the struggle of brazilian Nrichie into perfection, inspired by Nicole Ritchie from 70kg into 53kg (154 pounds to 117 pounds):
As a nurse, I should, but I can't condemn any of these attitudes. Actually, after seeing all the mess that exists inside our body, keeping our gastrointestinal tract shutdown is probably a good start to eliminate some of that mess.. I got to admit, there's some charm in fighting the urges and enjoying the feeling of hunger. Some insanely feel good charm.
"Nothing tastes as good as thin feels".
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