Expert: Samathlee Colon - 8/3/2006

Question
Hi how are you?
i am 17 years old and i am 170cm tall and weigh approx 48-49kg depending!! i don't have my period and lost it years ago! i exercise 4 hours minimum a day to try and lose weight i havn't been eating anything for a while apart from chewie and water and am absolutly terrified of gaining weight or even hoping on the scales!!!! i have recently started chewing and spitting but i wouldn't say i chew and spit a lot mainly just on sultanas 1 tiny kids box at the most! and 1 pce of bread with butter and honey... which i do probably 4 times a week and the rest of the time i just don't eat anything!!! i was wondering if i went on a fast of only chewie and water for 2 weeks would i lose weight by doing this and how much could i expect to lose? do laxatives help with weight loss and also how can i get out of the chewing and spitting trap? i don't want to recover as i have anorexia and just want to keep losing losing losing i also want to know how come when i was eating 2 tiny meals a day and only exercising around 2 hours a day was i skinnier?

Answer
Hello...I would like to start off by informing you that you are loosing wieght in all the wrong ways. As a matter of fact you are ruining the very thing that will help you continue to stay thin for the rest of your life. And thats your metabolism. Once you have screwed that up, you are going to go no where but downwards! You are working out extremely too much and on top of it you are not feeding your body enough energy to burn. Your body requires that fuel... if you do not give it- your body will in deed SHUT DOWN- and hopefully you can recover from it - IF and WHEN it does. I don't mean to scare you...but I have numerous medical problems now from what was done to my body in the past. Your immune system will be shot, so you will easily get sick from anything. . . and stay sick for long periods of times. IN a very short time you could ruin your metabolism - therefore, you will not be able to loose ANY weight. Now you don't want that. But that doesn't even include the serious diseases and illness's you can get from what you are doing to your body right now, especially at your age. I see that you don't want to recover, cause you want to continue to loose wieght... But my question is to you. . . If you die tomorrow, from a heart attack, at the age of 17- you think what mattered when you were here on earth was that you were thin? Or you think you would regret it cause you were not able to live long enough to get married- or see the age of 40 -50? What are you on this earth for? To be skinny?