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Im not very fond of bulemic people, i know its something that I shouldnt do *not be fond of them*, but food is my life i weigh 118 lbs, never stop eating, and If i get fat ill sit back and be proud. And i know bul. ppl binge/purge cause they think they are fat, its a mental disorder, but about 60% or over, of the ppl that have this disorder actually arent overweight.
(i'm a guy) i guess it's posible for me to have some sort of eating disorder thing. i dont eat breakfest, but i do eat lunch. and i dont normally eat my mom's dinners that she makes. She just makes nasty stuff, but i snack a lot. and somedays at school when i really dont have time to eat during lunch and it's all needed for work time i sometimes will go without eating that day, not including snacks. so yeah. 😛
Its honestly not the easiest way to lose weight, weightrooms and dieting help a way lot better, even though it may NOT be faster..All an overweight person has to do (or a person who assumes they are overweight) is eat healthy, eat small meals, be active, run around, do crunches , treadmilling..etc.. Cause evenetually your gonna get adapted to vomiting ur food and it will come naturally when u eat and u cant control it, so u may die from it...Its happened...
All dieting does is shut down your metabolism and make your body think you're starving. If you want to lose weight the best thing you can do is eat breakfast cuz it gets your body going. When I used to skip breakfast I never really felt very hungry until lunch. Now that I eat breakfast I am starving two hours before lunch. I eat more now than I did when I was heavier. I've lost a lot of weight in the last few months (down two pants sizes so far) and I don't really excercise. I do have to walk a lot to get around here and I go dancing on the weekends, but I don't work out by any definition. If I'm hungry I snack on fruits and nuts instead of junk food. I also cut out soda, except when I eat out, and drink water instead most of the time.
My sister did the laxitive/bulemia thing in high school and it totally messed up her digestive system. She still has problems digesting certain foods even though she recovered from her eating disorder over 12 years ago. I should add that she was only bulemic for a couple of months and she still has to deal with it's effects.
well, i was bulimic for about 2-3 years and although it was mainly due to the fact that i wanted to lose weight, it was also because i couldn't handle starting A Levels and losing friends etc etc all that well, especially when i'm naturally a very emotional person anyway. Also, i didn't care about my body or myself too much (didn't have much self-confidence)...even after letting my body go through the constant pain, headaches,junk food, depression and all the other things that occurs (and the bad things that happen inside your body due to the binging and purging cycle that you don't see) in a bulimic person, i carried on regardless. I felt very depressed and sad at the time...no one to speak to, always bored and hardly doing anything, fed up with school, teachers, parents and 'friends'. I've never been told i was fat or anything either, ideal weight for my height they told me but because i felt insecure about myself (and was now failing in my studies and social life too when before i was a straight A student and had a good group of friends (well, i thought they were my friends)), i had to do something that would at least destroy a part of me...and keep me preoccupied at the same time. Everyone was going on to have boyfriends and stuff and i just felt left out, pushed away.
Anyway, i ended up speaking to my parents about it after they heard me purging one day (and my sister too...surprisingly, she was a great listener and helped me a lot) and jus told them EVERYTHING...how i was feeling, the food obsession etc. It was quite emotional to say the least because i had wanted to tell someone for AGES.
Well, i'm happy to say that it's all over now. I've made so many new friends that are genuine and they were there for me too.They have the same interests as me and so we all do things whenever we feel like it. I started going to the gym to workout and i've just recently started boxing and kickboxing! I also jog a few days as well as play tennis whenever i have time. The thing is, i've always hated exercise and so i make sure that whenever i do exercise, i do things that include other people and something fun,like dancing. Also, i realised that i shouldn't abuse my body like that again and instead i should put into it what i hope to get out of it so now i eat healthy food. Because of the constant binging and purging, i went on the Atkins Nutritional Approach. It has allowed me to eat whenever i'm hungry and full (and this time, i KNOW when my body needs food instead of just stuffing my face at any given opportunity). I eat regular sized portions of vegetables, meat, fish,seafood, salads with olive oil, eggs, and some fruits. I know that many people have heard bad things about the Atkins but, for me, it has helped me to eliminate all the simple sugars from my diet and so i crave it less and it has allowed me to eat a lot healthier than before.
All in all, i am really happy with how far i have come and how quick i recovered. I know that some people have bulimia for years and years and i'm happy that i am now able to eat whenever i need to, exercise whenever i feel like it but not beat myself up if i don't (just keeping active generally works for me too! like cleaning, cooking, sewing), meeting new friends and going out.
I was thinking the other day, life is really just too short to be bothered by all of that. No matter what, you will find someone and some people that will like and love you for who you are...no one is perfect..even models, actors and singers in those mags are now airbrushed to look 'perfect'. Is that really the 'perfect' look anyway? Once you see one of them, you've seen them all...plain and simple. Now, i'm not gonna say that models, actors and singers should be scolded and beaten up because they look 'good'! If i meet someone that i consider more beautiful,slimmer or more intelligent than me, they'll have insecurities too anyway and it doesn't matter as much to me now either, everyone will always have their own particular strengths and weaknesses, whether those are things that they consider themselves to be or what people have told them.
And try to always think about how self-absorbed and selfish you're being doing this kinda thing! We hear, read and see (well, me anyway!) nearly everyday about people in much worse situations than ourselves...they cope, why can't we?
It's not easy but it's not impossible either.
If you try hard to listen to your body and eat whenever it tells you to, you will be fine. Choose food that is filling and healthy..or just food that you'd like to eat at that moment. If you feel like you'd binge on it, don't eat it, do something else.
It's also so confusing nowadays to know what is healthy and what isn't. There are so many diets telling you about what foods you should and shouldn't eat, i was sooo confused! There's like the low carb, but they say you'll need more vitamins and minerals than what's in that, it has too much fat etc etc, there's the low fat but you restrict your calories, you spend your time counting stupid calories and fat! i just don't eat any simple sugars now...it's not like we need it is it? it's not even filling or nutritious. Some people would hate that but it works for me. Everyone is different and that's one thing most diets don't tell you. They tell you exactly when and what to eat when really you should just listen to your body.
just try to find something that works for you, that gives you energy for whatever you need to do that day. And food isn't the enemy. It is fuel for our bodies to function properly. what is the enemy is probably not only the unhealthy sugary, junk foods but also our minds which has a way of playing tricks on us even when we seem perfectly sane 😄 ! Without healthy food, the right amount of calories and regular meals throughout the day, our body will not burn fat efficiently and we end up losing lean muscle over time. As lean muscle decreases, the body will further lose it's efficiency in burning fat (as muscle uses up more calories than fat). what you'd need to do is build lean muscle (by eating and exercise) thus allowing your fat stores to be broken down. A person who does not eat will lose more weight and will be happy for a while to see that on the scale but once they realise that that weight is mainly water and lean muscle, it's not good! once the person eats again (very few people can handle starvation for a whole lifetime! is that what you want to do? not eat forever?! i sure as hell can't do that!), the weight added on will all be fat. unless that person exercises and starts to eat healthily to build lean muscle again, they will get fatter. why do you think that men tend to be able to eat more than women? they tend to have more lean muscle which burns up the calories that they eat faster that's why and they tend to be more active than women(men are great! 😄 )
It's not only the weight thing that depresses people who have eating disorders either and gets them into this cycle, it's the feeling of failure everytime you finish a starvation period or a stupid diet. I know that whenever i stopped eating and then ate again, then started a diet then pigged out again, i felt like total and utter s**t! i HATED myself, all i thought about constantly was food food food.
food is not bad, it's not choosing the healthy options that is bad.
i hope that you can speak to someone sensible about this. don't always listen to the people who you think are your friends at this moment, just listen to yourself and do what you think is right. I mean, come on, everyone is going to die right, why spend YOUR life destroying yourself? might as well have fun and tell everyone that if they don't like you, they can all fack off! 😆
i wish you the best of luck, you seem like a really nice person, don't throw that away.
luv,HA