Bulemic or not?

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Registered: 01-27-2004
Bulemic or not?
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Wed, 01-28-2004 - 12:02am
I am a 24 year old woman who has recently lost almost 40lbs through Weight Watchers, however for the past two months I find myself vomiting almost every night after dinner time. I had a slight spout with bulemia in my teens, but do not purge everything I eat. I eat healthy during the day but when I come home at night I find myself eating dinner and immediately throwing it back up. On occasion I will purge during the day also. I have read that bulemia does not help weight loss but it seems to be in my situation. I am just confused as to whether or not I am classified as having this horrible disorder or if because I don't purge all of my meals, I still can be ok. I know it sounds silly, I know I have a problem, but am I bulemic???? I do not want to be like this. Even if I eat normally in the evening my body almost screams for me to get rid of it. Please help.
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In reply to: niddy21
Wed, 01-28-2004 - 2:14am
Hiya, nice to meet you. I am 25 and recovering. I am sorry to hear you are struggling. To me it does sound like bulimia tendancies. I know from personal experience, I can eat great during the day and then at night, eat till the cows come home............till I feel sick but now, I am learing to accept my weight gain as recovery and I feel soooo much better. I would love to keep in touch and if you like you can email me.

xxxoallyoxxx@aol.com Takecare and know there are people out there for you.

Lisa aka Ally xx

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In reply to: niddy21
Wed, 01-28-2004 - 11:24am

Hi Niddy,


Welcome to the board. I am sorry you are struggling and it does sound frustrating.


I would hesitate to say that you are bulimic, but truthfully that's just a lable and whether it applies to you is not important. What IS important that your eating patterns are not normal. If you are 'making' yourself throw up, then I would say you have an emotional problem and that is your way of dealing with it. If you just can't keep the food down for some reason and it comes back up without you inducing it, then I would say you have a physical problem. Either way I would have them checked out.


Have there been any stressful or upsetting events in your life here lately? Often times when we have a lot going on we turn back to old habits, even if those habits seem to have been long gone. Have you considered counseling or group therapy? I know those are hard steps to take, but it would be best if you do something about the purging while you are still in the beginning stages. The longer you let it go, the more you will get pulled into it and the harder it will be to stop.


Please let us know if you have any additional questions and post any time you need to.

Love & hugs, Kristina


The opinions I have expressed here are from my own experience and are not intended as medical advice or to take the place of your own physician's advice.

Love & hugs, Kristina

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In reply to: niddy21
Wed, 01-28-2004 - 1:02pm
kristina is right. Bulimia is a term often used to describe the sort of problems you described HOWEVER, we can not diagnose and its something that really needs to be looked into. I had therapy for nearly 2 years and its brilliant how it makes you open up. Eating disorders are about emotional issues and to help these issues it needs to be talked about in order to get to the route of the prob before the eating or other issues can be resloved too. If bulimia/anorexia/compulsive/bulimarexia tendancies begin to show, people often feel ashamed to admit they have a problem but you have done the best thing ever and thats by talking about your concerns and really asking for help. I commend you for that.

We are not doctors and we can be here to support you by giving advice or by talking to you and I mean it when I say I am here for you. Please, continue to talk to us........we can be good therapy. I wish you all the best and look forward to hearing from you again.

All my love

Lisa aka Ally xxx
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In reply to: niddy21
Thu, 01-29-2004 - 6:32am
hi

not really much point to this post as i just wanted to agree with kristina and ally. im in the same boat as you, but have not had any luck in plucking up the courage to talk to anyone bout my problems (i write stuff to people, and that has really helped) it really sounds like you could use a person to open up to, release all those pent-up feelings.

as i sais, im just repeating what kris and ally said, but hope i helped.

*hugs*

lauren x x x
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Registered: 02-12-2004
In reply to: niddy21
Thu, 02-12-2004 - 6:45am
im 20 and have the similar actions to you. i can eat healthy but then i will just pinge and eat on bad things and then make myself throw up. i feel awful and guilty about doing this but i reason with myself saying that im not bukliemic cause i dont do it everyday. but i knwo its bad for me and im struggling with it because i did it for the first time when i was sixteen and im still doing it now.and well i always think in my head while eating bad foods that i should make myself throw up. so i think i know how u feel...