my JTM speech

ANOREXIA, it is an eating disorder where people starve themselves because they have an intense fear of becoming fat. It mainly affects adolescent girls who are very skinny but are convinced that they are overweight.
I have been with people who are suffering from anorexia and believe me, it is NOT a pretty sight to see skin and bones walking around you. They do not eat nor drink anything and I even heard one of them say, "Ayaw ko ng pagkain. Kadiri naman." They were unbelievable because they are skin and bones, right? And so, I am forced to swallow my hunger or else they would rant about how disgusting food is, or...or how fat they are, all day long. I could not convince them that they are NOT FAT because i'm telling you, if you were in my place, you would think that eating was a crime.
I think eating disorders are somewhat influential because after a year of being with my anorexic friends, I suffered from my own eating disorder which was bulimia.
In my own eating disorder, which I struggled with for five long months, my weight went up and down and all around. My suffering was VERY real and my distorted body image insisted I was fat. I was still eating, large amounts of food and then I would throw it all up secretly. But then I realized that this was a "no win" situation because no matter how hard you may try, you cannot ever be "done". Plus, there are a lot of medical risks associated with eating disorders that include: shrunken bones, irregular heartbeat, permanent failure of normal growth, development of osteoporosis, and a lot more.
Excessive dieting and too much conciousness of ones body size may lead to a case of eating disorder. Being concious and aware of your body is not bad but when it gets too much and you start abusing your body, that's the time when you should stop and think, "Am I really taking care of myself?"
You don't have to torture yourself. I mean, do you find people or girls who are skinny, I mean REALLY skinny, pretty?? What, with their bones out and everything...Well, you get the picture. I don't think so. So i think we should be aware of what we do to our body and really start taking care of ourselves, because be it cliche or not, it is still our inner selves that matters most.