Joven documentó en Instagram cómo superó la anorexia

Lima, 4 de septiembre de 2015Actualizado el 04/09/2015, 12:29 p.m.

Amalie Lee es una joven estudiante de la universidad Roehampton en Londres, Inglaterra, que logr vencer la anorexia y lo document enInstagram.

Esta muchacha de 20 aos sufri de desrdenes alimenticios en el 2012, cuando tuvo que ser internada en un centro especializado.

Con mucho esfuerzo, pudo salir adelante y vencer esta enfermedad.Desde el 2013, esta joven documenta su recuperacin en Instagram.

2013 vs 2015. Sick vs healthy. These are some of the photos of me that are spreading all over the world these days. I want to use this as an opportunity to say something important; You dont have to look like me on the left to have an eating disorder. An eating disorder comes in all shapes and sizes. Some, like me, become very underweight by their eating disorder (though I was a normal-weight sufferer for some time too) whilst others are normal-weight or overweight, at times morbidly obese. We also have binge eating disorder, bulimia, orthorexia and ednos (eating disorder not otherwise specified) and many subclinical and atypical cases. I felt like my case was not taken seriously until I was very underweight, and that is not ok! It is a mental illness with physical side effects, and everybody deserves help. I also want to correct a few errors that have occurred in media about me and my case: I was never put into hospital. I went to outpatient treatment (therapy, weigh-ins, doctor checks etc) at the hospitals eating disorder unit. It is true I ate 3000 calories daily whilst staying sedentary to gain 0.5 kg weekly, BUT in the beginning I gained far more on way less because my metabolism was in starvation mode. I gradually increased. As I ate more, I gained slower, as weird as it sounds. I am currently not on a 3000 calorie meal plan, I eat intuitively. I never suffered from re-feeding syndrome. What I said is that I had to increase my intake gradually because I was in danger of it, as any other very undernourished/underweight person. The syndrome is rare and risk is low, even for the most severe cases, but it is watched out for because it can be deadly. I did have extreme hunger pains at times, but I said extreme hunger the pains-word was somehow added somewhere by somebody that is not me. Extreme hunger happened in recovery and basically means that I had episodes where I felt starved out and EXTREMELY hungry despite just eaten thousands of calories. This is normal in recovery. I did not get diagnosed with anorexia in 2012. I got an eating disorder in 2012 but I was without treatment and a diagnosis until 2013. Hope this cleared things up

Una foto publicada por REDEFINING HEALTHY (@amalielee) el 31 de Ago de 2015 a la(s) 3:42 PDT

Atraves una fase depresiva extrema en mi adolescencia y mi percepcin de m misma toc fondo. Simplemente quera desaparecer. Mi problema alimenticio nunca gir en torno al querer lucir como una mujer, fue mi manera de lidiar con mis problemas, escribi en Instagram.

Desde el 2014, ella est saludable fsicamente, sin embargo, explic que su salud mental aun est en recuperacin.

In recovery from eating disorders, there is a lot of focus on the physical part. Being ill means looking physically ill; dry skin, hair falling out and a thin and fragile frame. But guess what? Most ED sufferers are actually normal- or overweight. For me, recovery meant going from a body seen as abnormal and unappealing by others and society in general. But for some, recovery may mean letting go of a body seen as fit and ideal by society, and instead embrace a higher body fat percentage. A woman might get praised for her six pack, when she is in fact eating 1000 calories a day to maintain a body fat percentage so low that she does not even have her period. Social media rationalize eating disorders at times. It is not healthy to be ripped for fat. It is not healthy to eat restrictive. It is not healthy to obsess over weight and food. But fuck, it is a money maker. Zero calorie noodles, magazines lurking us with headlines that suggests we need to change. And the approval. The likes. But in the end, does it really matter? Back to recovery. Not everybody who recovers will end up on a perfect bmi of X. Mind-blowing fact: you can be healthy without looking like a fitness model, and people who looks like fitness models are not always healthy. I am damn proud of my physical change as you can see, and I enjoy showing you my progress. But always remember that healthy is not a look, and neither is recovery. #realcovery is for everyBODY

Una foto publicada por REDEFINING HEALTHY (@amalielee) el 29 de Jun de 2015 a la(s) 5:06 PDT

Me puse reglas bizarras sobre lo que me permita comer, cundo y dnde, y hasta qu cuchara utilizar. Estas reglas me hacan sentir segura y en control. Pero en realidad haba perdido el control y tena la necesidad obsesiva de controlar todo y esto me termin controlando en todos los sentidos, seal Amalie Lee.

Actualmente, ella es un ejemplo para ms de los 58 mil jvenes que la siguen en Instagram. Lee publica fotos de su peso y los cambios para bien que han tenido.

Mi proceso de subir de peso. La receta? Ingerir entre 2500 y 3000 caloras al da y no hacer ejercicio. Cuando estn recuperados y se sientan listos, gradualmente empezarnn a realizar ejercicios, escribi en su cuenta de Instagram.

An eating disorder is NOT about weight! What do I have in common in these 3 photos? An eating disorder. Luckily, I can say that I was close to fully recovered on the 2014-photo, though some may disagree that you can become 100% recovered, especially after such a short time. Weight loss and/or weight gain is a side effect for some sufferers. Most people with eating disorders are normal- to overweight. Most people with eating disorders dont have clinical anorexia nervosa. There is NO such thing as being too big for an eating disorder. Not all underweight people have eating disorders or are unhealthy. Being overweight does not automatically mean you are lazy or unhealthy. Ive seen SO many people with a bmi above 25 who looks perfectly normal and are healthy. I was close to overweight on the 2012-picture! We need to stop labelling and judging, and start accepting that people come in different sizes, and that is ok #bodypositivity #realcovery