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I'm no expert, but from personal experience, when you only manage to eat toast and a hot dog at lunch, or a granola bar + yogurt and some pasta at dinner along with multiple liters of water for a day because "you just don't feel hungry" and you end up losing so much weight you need to buy new jeans and t-shirts (which you're too depressed to pick out, so your wife buys them for you)- there's something going on.

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I don't doubt your experience, and I have no reason to.

I only asked because I was curious. Please don't take it was me trying to invalidate you.

None invalidation taken:) It's a strange experience to go through - hard to describe. This strange loop where I didn't feel hungry and didn't feel that I should eat "because I was supposed to".

And don’t underestimate the potential seriousness of this. My sister died in August from an eating disorder. She was 53. She did not exhibit any outward signs of depression. She seemed happy. But she weighed only 70 lbs when she died.

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