Expert: Meg - 5/27/2007

Question
hi,im 5ft 7ins and weigh 8st, over the past 3 months ive lost about a stone and ahalf in weight {i used to be 9st 7lbs} i eat in the evening and i will eat crisps, nuts or some times a cheeseburger or a fitness bar. im not much underweight am i.i dont really have a problem do i.

Answer
Hi Mandy,

Thanks for your question and I hope that I can be of some help.  Forgive me in advance, I'm not great with stone to pound conversions but according to the online convertor I used, it appears that you weight 112 pounds.  If this is correct, then you are definitely underweight.

Here is a link to an ideal weight chart that might help you see that you are most certainly underweight:

http://www.healthchecksystems.com/heightweightchart.htm

While being underweight alone does not mean for sure that you have an eating disorder, I am guessing since your friends think you have a problem and also that you are fairly underweight but don't see that-that you very well might.

Here are some links to some self assessment quizzes that you can take online.  They might help you to see what is going on:

http://www.poppink.com/quiz/index.html

http://www.eatingdisorder.org/about_eating_disorders/resources/quiz.php

http://www.something-fishy.org/isf/questionnaire.php


I hope that this helps you see that you may want to take a look at what is going on and perhaps think about getting some help.

Finally, here is some more information for you.  Please feel free to write again if there is anything else I can help with.  

http://www.something-fishy.org/whatarethey/anorexia.php
Take care,
Meg