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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AndBreathe" data-source="post: 2422306" data-attributes="member: 88961">Elenas - How is your relationship with food, and has that changed since your diagnosis?I lived with anorexia nervosa for a number of years in my 20s and it's not a nice place to be.  I think the basis your of your GPs diagnosis is important.  Is it purely because you have lost weight to the extent you are pretty underweight, or did you talk about your longer terms relationship with food?The word Anorexia can be defines as the lack or loss of appetite for food, so it can happen for all manner or reasons, not necessarily associated with the serious and worrying condition of anorexia nervosa.These days I am a healthy weight, albeit at the lower end of the healthy BMI range.  Should I happen to lose a bit of weight (it often happens if I'm travelling - in the heat, or massively active) I firstly focus on upping my protein, then adding a bit of a fat to that.  Personally, if I eat too much fat I find my bowel gets a bit too frisky.</blockquote>

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