Not surprised lol. Half of them seem to be really ill individuals and the other half seem to have BED and desperately want to have an eating disorder. Their main mod is basically sociopathic the day I stumbled on it there was a giant confession thread that the whole sub was created as a troll and to get another user she disagreed with banned from Reddit.

I do admit back in the day I frequented a pro-Ana board called project shape shift around 2005-2006 and it was somewhat similar. Very sick people encouraged by people desperately asking for tips or how to purge. Being a restrictive purging type disorder myself, it makes me sick that people don't understand what it's like. You don't need "tips" because the disorder does that for you in a way. Besides, if what OP has posted is true about weight in that sub, she definitely isn't a recovered anorexic- she would marginally be underweight by bmi to begin with (I'm not a doctor and I don't know her- just basing that off what few posts of hers I read I really don't want to read too much into that sub because it makes me sick.) I find it frustrating people marginalize a real illness like its badge of honor to have it just for attention like that. After my most recent relapse a month or so ago I had forgotten what a horrible thing it was I had truly overcome. Like I'm fully expecting I'm just going to die one day from the stress on my body from going to a normal body weight to below 90 lbs in 3 weeks. Anyways, sorry that sub just makes me grumpy and ranty that offering tips on how to make yourself very ill is allowed and everyone fawning over this chick when she's clearly promoting the pro-ed movement just is frustrating to see on my front page from this sub no less which usually is a huge motivation for me to get better so I can start lifting weights for progress again (i still do because it makes me happy but I'm making zero progress considering what a huge deficit I'm in and can lift less and less or stagnate it seems).