Being underweight

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Hi,

It isn't a matter of not liking food. Ask my boyfriend, I eat all the time. I

just don't gain weight. I can sit down and eat 45 macadamia's and did, and

not gain a pound, plus dinner and other meals.

It is just as hard to gain weight as it is to lose, I have been on both sides

as well. Some people just have a higher metabolism. The same way with people

who are overweight where their metabolism is messed up and they gain even

when they don't eat much. I have a friend who is very overweight and he

doesn't eat much at all. He has tried all the diets and has had no luck. I

really think it is about what our body does with the food and our metabolism.

Not about not liking food or not eating.

This is a pet peeve for me. Bcs I have had several people over the years mock

me bcs I will worry about being too thin. They say, " yeah right, I wish I had

THAT problem. " But when I was 16 years old and reacted badly to an RA med my

doc was trying me on, I got down to about 70 some odd pounds. It was pure

hell. Nothing fit me. I looked dead. I almost did die! So when I get sick

now, I get scared to death about losing weight. I " don't " like how I look in

the mirror because I am too thin.

Just because we are thin doesn't mean we are happy to be or are there by

choice.

~Rainy Sue

> June,

> Sorry if I can't feel your pain about being too thin. I'd like to try it

> sometime. I love to eat and thus am fat so even though I feel so good on

> prednisone, I will not take it for vanity reasons. And after all I've read

> here guess I made the right decision! Do you just not like food? Can't

> imagine!

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> Temple

> Kuddle Kritters Farm

> 3 Fox Haven Way

> Chelmsford, MA 01824

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