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My life story

I was in year 7 (12 years old) when I first started thinking about my image and body figure. I was concerned about everything i saw i thought to myself "I look disgusting, I need to thrive to look better". In which case I thought I’m going to go on a diet! I started cutting things out of my healthy diet that I used to have when I was a young girl just wanting to enjoy life. Then it got to the stage when I started to cut meals out of my diet. This process of a poor diet happened for a year and a month. I carried on loosing weight until i got to the point where I was feeling dead. I didn’t sleep, I couldn’t concentrate at school, I was angry and had mood swings every 5 minutes, I went through points where I wanted to kill myself and was close to.

Basically I gave up being an anorexic and decided to tell my mum. She burst out crying and then she told me that she new there was something wrong and the puzzle started to add up. I went to the doctors and weighed a very scary weight. I am in the recovering state at the moment and am a much more healthy weight. The doctors think if I had carried on the way I did I could of been dead within this year.

Now my life is so much better it feels more fulfilled and I enjoy life now. Before my life was just a life and I wasn’t living it. My life was revolved around food and that is not a way to live a life.

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Interview

This is where we could have interviews with people about them and how they deal with the tough stuff in life. Any ideas of who you would like to have interviewed? Let us know ypf@b-eat.co.uk

Spotlight

What's your name?

Dani

What's your job title?

Marketing Manager

What do you do at beat?

I'm in charge of making sure that beat materials (leaflets, newsletters, websites etc) are produced correctly and on time. I also manage our training team including our freelance Associate Trainers, who deliver training to professionals and schools who want to learn more about eating disorders. I organise conferences and events for professionals and carers, and look after our Professional Network Membership.

What are the others at beat like?

They are a great bunch!

What's your favourite band/artist?

Bloc Party, We Are Scientists, Take That...

Have a break

Eating disorders aren't fun  at all and sometimes you can feel like you don't deserve to have fun or there isn't space in your life for it. You deserve to have a break - it is important for your recovery. Why not try playing these silly games for some light relief.

StoneAge Sam

StoneAge Sam Help Sam the caveman survive. A great mini puzzle / adventure game that will keep you playing for hours. .

Penguin Diner

Penguin Diner You have to seat, take the order, serve the food, and collect the tip for each hungry penguin that comes in. A very addicting mini RPG game. .

Konnectors

Konnectors Build a road linking the starting point to the end point. .

Gold Strike

Gold Strike Dig for gold by breaking groups of blocks. .

Penguin Push

Penguin Push Push all of the blocks into the marked areas without getting stuck. .

Grow Island

Grow Island Grow Island : a great point and click game that will keep you playing for hours. You finish the game when all levels are maxed out. Experiment and grow . .

Click Maze

Click Maze A nice puzzle game with lots of great levels. Just click the spot you want to go to and watch out for the moving obstacles and maze walls .

The Impossible Quiz

The Impossible Quiz 2

More ideas for having a break

It can be hard to let yourself take a break from it all for a bit. Here are some ideas for how you could take a break.

• have a warm relaxing bath
• read a book that helps to educate your brain
• challenge mates to a game you used to play when you were younger e.g. hide and seek!

Any more ideas? E-mail them in to ypf@b-eat.co.uk and we'll put them up!