constant weight loss tips and they start off being you know less extreme like you know

one thousand two hundred calorie diets but

uh... but slowly you start getting more extreme things you know five hundred calories a day

three hundred calories a day, 300 calories a day. Welcome back to other people's lives. I'm Joe Santagato. I'm Greg Dyebeck.

For anyone out there that would like to be a guest on our show, don't hesitate to reach out to us.

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And today we're speaking with a woman about one of the most dangerous online communities

out there, we would say, the pro anorexia community and she's going to talk about how she first discovered

and got involved in this community,

her dangerous experience with it,

and how she was ultimately able to get out

and separate herself.

So we've got the guests on the line,

and thanks so much for being on today.

Thank you for having me.

Yeah, of course.

Can you talk about the first time that you discovered this community.

Do you remember how old you are and what was it exactly that you saw online that drew you in?

Sure.

So I don't necessarily remember the specifics of the first time, but I know that I was around 12 when I first came across this. I was starting to have sort of insecurities with my body and I wanted to lose weight and I just

went on Instagram looking for some weight loss tips. I didn't think I could come across the types of things that I did but I started finding tips that were, let's say quite extreme.

But because I was so young obviously I didn't really realize or understand sort of the gravity of what I was getting myself into so it was really just weight loss tips.

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