I am an Anorexia Enabler
| posted by Tim TymchyshynIt is true I am, my wife has been battling this addiction for years and I helped her because I thought I could save her from this monster. In reality I can't and I almost lost her to this thing, so let me tell you the story.
I have been battling my weight problem for years, where my wife never really got heavy and if she started to she went back down. I knew she was cutting calories, but never thought much about it as I was too self-centered about my own weight and smoking problem. So about 2 years ago she decided that she wanted to come to the gym with me because I tried but never really lost much, of course I also ate too much and smoked too much at the same time. Our gym closed about 6 months after her joining and we went over to a chain gym; everything was good for the first couple of months. Then after coming back from a convention in Vegas, she started to cut calories hard and began also. Within three months she lost 45 pounds, I can't say anything about myself now because I was doing the exact same shit, and got down to about 90 pounds and I let her. Over the summer we went to the gym everyday and she worked out on the treadmill for about 90 mins walking a 15 degree incline at 4.2 miles per hour; then go home and run for 1 hour twice each day. The loss of calories made her very unreasonable and hard to control with the weight loss getting worse. Finally when she hit about 80 pounds I convinced her to see her doctor and she got an appointment to see the shrink. That was it for her, she was put in the mental ward and she refused to eat; me being the loving husband stood beside her and told the doctor that she would not have a feeding tube. I got a phone call the next morning and was told she is being certified for a 21 day evaluation and if I continued my behavior I wouldn't be allowed to visit her. That was the wake up call I worked with them, she began to eat and she made a connection with the dietician and her case worker. She remained in the hospital for 8 weeks and then two days before she got out her cat passed away for no none reason, this almost killed her. I spent the next 3 hours looking for another one and so some strange reason I found one about 40 mins out in the country, a kitten that loved to be held.
She did come home 4 days later instead of the two with her new kitten (Happy), but she is still fighting this addiction to lose weight but it is not beating her she is fighting hard.
just so you know this affected me too, I didn't sleep or eat for months. Didn't cry about it either; not until Christmas Eve when I finally broke down and cried like a little baby in her arms thanking her for coming back. Even tough guys have to cry
