Male Anorexia Diagnosis
When I was in high school a few years ago, I was on the Varsity Wrestling team and was exposed for the first time to weight and maintaining eating habits. I myself lost twenty pounds to make weight, but there is one individual, which stands out in my mind when it comes to the idea of having a eating disorder. This teammate of mine, would constantly be trying to lose to get down to the next lowest weight class. He was a senior at the time when I was on the team, me in my junior year. He started the season at 166 lbs and by a quarter of the way through the season he was down to 135lbs. This is without the approval of our coach who didn’t want him to get down that low, but my teammate insisted that it wouldn’t be a problem and he could do it. So, of course everyone just turned their head and let it slide. Him and I would run around the floors of the school, even after a very rigorous practice to keep the weight down even more sometimes. He ran everyday. He use to tell me when we ran together that he wasn’t feeling well and that he felt like he was getting weaker during our practice matches at the end of practice. This is a symptom; something that he told me was affecting him, better
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Varsity Wrestling, criterion anorexia, gaining weight, fear gaining weight, , fear gaining, body weight, intense fear gaining, affecting health, intense fear, little overweight, weight gain, disturbance body, body perception,
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