Actually, you might get thin by not eating, but you definitely will not look great! I am slowly recovering fromthe hell that is anorexia. I will probably have eating problems for ever now! All because I wanted to be skinny. I got what I wanted but my skin went dry and flaky, I got spots, then when i got really skinny i grew a kind of downy hair all over my body NOT ATTRACTIVE!!!! It is what the body does to keep warm when it has no fat. I had no curves, my period stopped, my hair got thinner and thinner and then fell out. My period has come back but for many anorectics it doesnt so they can never have babies. I looked like a famine victim and no guy would have ever wanted to be my bf!!! I looked disgusting. And now I am a thinnish normal weight but i will have a lifetime of obsessing about food and eating!!!!!! That is REALITY!!!