Eating disorders to others vs reality

An eating disorder is an addiction, not a pretty one at that. Tons of people out there believe it's easy to loose weight while restricting. They don't think it's hard. I went around my college campus and did a questionair for my sociology class. Every answer was basically the same just worded differently. They all said they restricted for a few days, and lost 3 pounds and felt great so they stopped and then put why can't they stop. The reality of an eating disorder is below

• Laxatives in movies: Person immediately has blow-out diarrhea, with much hilarity.
• Laxatives in real life: Person waits six hours.. twelve hours.. forgets about taking laxatives.. then has blow-out diarrhea, usually in a public place, with much embarrassment.
• Purging in movies: Person sticks finger down throat, daintily pukes quietly into toilet, flushes, and looks fabulous.
• Purging in real life: Person sticks whatever is available down throat, struggles to puke, makes dying walrus noises, finally vomits, vomit comes out nose, gets vomit and toilet water splashed into face and hair, snots and drools for several more minutes, flushes, washes combination of vomit and snot off face, still looks like a train wreck and smells like vomit.
• Fasting in movies: Person never eats, ever, is super happy, and immediately becomes emaciated.
• Fasting in real life: Person fasts until the hunger overtakes the mind, finally breaks down and eats whatever is available, cries and is miserable, takes months to lose a significant amount of weight because metabolism is dead.
• Over-exercise in movies: Person runs for hours on the treadmill, looks fabulous and toned.
• Over-exercise in real life: Person struggles to run for hours on the treadmill, stumbles with shaking legs for the last hour, still looks flabby due to muscle wasting.
• Anorexics and bulimics in movies: Severely emaciated, everyone concerned.

• Anorexics and bulimics in real life: Come in all sizes, usually of "normal" weight, very few people notice or concerned. 

Eating disorders are not for fun AND they are not easy.  So many people think there easy and from exsperence it has made my life a living hell. 

Some even said they want to go down that path, I was astonished to hear that. Who WANTS to choose this path, I know I didn't.  The people in my survey also suggested that the people who suffered were pathetic and just wanted attention, in my case;  no that is not what happened.

People make assumptions and don't allow them selves to fully understand the situation. Which makes the person suffering have a tougher time dealing with the situation.....

On a better note today is LOVE your body day, so do something nice for it. Feed it, don't harm it. Draw a butterfly on it so you won't harm it. Do something that will satisfy it.