Many people with
anorexia nervosa, due
to trauma in their pasts, want
to lose weight for the complete opposite reason,
to look sexually unattractive.
In my own case, because of a lifetime of being raped and abused, I wanted to become emaciated so that men would find me unattractive and would be sexually repulsed by me, so that they would leave me alone. I hope that by losing weight the abuse might stop.