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User:longingtobethin (1099660)
Name:longing to be thin.
Theme:Longingtobethin seeks to foster honest discussion about eating disorders without glorifying them.
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About:This is a support community for people suffering from an eating disorder of some kind. This is not a dieting community.



There are no certain criteria that you have to meet to join here. You don't have to be a certain weight, or have set eating habits. If you believe that you have some sort of problem with food, or if you think that you may have a problem but you're not sure then you're welcome to join.
You may be wanting to lose weight, you may be wanting to recover. Most likely you don't really know what you want.

    This is for...
  • Those of us that kind of want to be healthy, but at the same time want to be thin.
  • Those of us that are completely screwed up about food but still eat. Sometimes starve, sometimes fast, sometimes binge.
  • Those of us who are just confused as to where we are with food.
  • Those of us who exercise for hours to compensate.
  • Those of us who are underweight, overweight, or normal weight. Maybe you're 5lbs from being diagnosed anoretic, maybe not.
  • Those of us who have been professionally diagnosed, or self-diagnosed.




rules:
1. Be kind and respect others. You may not agree with someone, but if you can't find anything nice to say don't say anything at all. Don't be a jerk/troll or you'll be banned. No ifs, ands, or buts. Requests for help developing disordered eating is the sole exception to this rule. Sometimes those posts sneak in when we're at work or sleeping. ;-)
2. Do not lock, rescreen, freeze, delete, or otherwise modify comments you receive. If there's a problem, seek a moderator for help. Modifying the comments you receive or comment-locking your post is an automatic ban.
3. No advertising or community promos.
4. Please keep anything not relating to this community's theme in your own private journal. After all, that's what it's there for!
5. Don't ask for, and don't give out, tips or advice on how to lose weight or become "more disordered". There is a very clear line where enough is enough, so please use your best judgment. Don't ask how to vomit, or how to go days without eating. This will result in a ban and a bitchy comment from [info]marmaladesky.
6. Please avoid personal posts multiple times a day. You are always welcome to edit your own posts if you think of something you'd like to add. Additional posts are always ok for discussion purposes. I.E. you've already posted today about food issues, but you see a new article on the modeling restrictions in France, and you'd like to tell the community about the article. That warrants a new post. Eating a piece of pizza twenty minutes after you just posted your calorie count for the day (which is boring, btw, no one cares) does not warrant a new post.
7. Please do not post attention whore/friend whore posts. The two moderators friended eachother after striking up a discussion in comments, and we've been e-friends for five years now. We encourage you to do the same, and to please stop cluttering the community with "I need more friends on myspace!" posts.

Moderators will be deleting any posts that break these rules. You will be warned (or consider your post deletion as a warning). Multiple offenses will likely result in a ban from the community.

Remember that eating disorders are a mental thing more than a physical thing. If you are just on a diet to lose a few pounds before summer or for a boy then you probably don't belong here. There are plenty of healthy weight-loss communities out there, so please, don't get yourself started down this road. You'll thank yourself for it later (and we'll thank you, too).

If you'd like to introduce yourself but don't know what to say, you can use this form:
Name & age:
Diagnosis/Behavior that is relevant to the community:
Why you're here, and what you're looking for:
Anything else you'd like to tell us: (This is where you tell us your favorite color, puppy's name, etc :-)



WARNING! If you're posting pictures, awesome. Please put them under an lj-cut. If you're posting NSFW (not safe for work) types of pictures, make the entry friends-only, and keep your birthdate visible in your userinfo. If you're under 18 and posting NSFW pictures - please rethink your decision. We'll have to delete your post, as you could potentially get this community deleted and your own account suspended/banned.

We recommend making all picture posts friends-only. We've gotten requests to remove posts after girls realized that their IRL friends had seen the pictures too, and it's an incredible hassle to remove every single picture post made by a user who is now rethinking her decision to publish shots of her hips online.

If you have a problem with another member, or have any suggestions or comments, please let [info]matanai or [info]marmaladesky know.

Memories:7 entries
Interests:75: anorexia, anorexia nervosa, anorexic, anorexics, bdd, beautiful, being perfect, being thin, binging and purging, bmi, body obsession, bones, bulimia, bulimia nervosa, calorie counting, calories, chewing gum, cleansing, coe, collar bones, compulsive overeating, compulsive undereating, control, counting calories, depression, determination, diet pills, discipline, diuretics, eating disorders, ed-nos, ednos, emaciated, emaciation, exercise, exercising, extreme dieting, fasting, fear of food, flat stomachs, food, food addiction, food obsession, healthy eating, hip bones, inspiration, laxatives, losing weight, low fat, low-cal, night-eating syndrome, nutrition, obsession, obsessive compulsive disorder, orthorexia nervosa, perfection, purging, restriction, ribs, self-control, skeletons, skinny, slimming, starvation, starving, strength, thin, underweight, vegan, vegetarianism, waif, water, weight, weight loss, working out
Maintainers:4: marmaladesky, matanai, picturesofpain
Members:3996: View Members.
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