Bulimia! Help ive been struggling with this for a little over a year?

Question

some days I dont throw up and some days I throw up 1 or more times. Nobody knows I struggle with this. I thought I could stop on my own and did for a little bit but started up again. I cant control how much I eat, ill over eat then be consumed with guilt and have the urge to get it all out. Then sometimes ill crash diet and eat very healthy and very little but then go back to binging and purging. Im afraid this is spiraling out of control and dont know what to do.

Answer 1

ohhh hunn

be confediant that u look good

:)

Answer 2

Hi there, let me say first that this was a huge step to do by coming on here looking for some answers/help. I suffered bulimia for 4 years, and have been recovered for 4 years last month!!! I started out the same way, and over time started throwing up more and more often, binging more often etc. The only way I was able to stop (I tried several times on my own) was to get some help from someone else. I would get more information from websites like

http://www.myeatingdisorder.com

and possibly consider contacting

http://www.aplaceofhope.com

They are a eating disorder counceling center and are AMAZING, contact them, I did and on top of loads of info they sent me a box of free GREAT books, they are just so great, they really focus on "recovering" not going into "recession". A lot of people believe you don't recover from an eating disorder, but it is possible. I AM RECOVERED not in any recession etc. I still have my days where I feel fat etc, but who doesn't, I'm not obsessed anymore with what I'm eating, how I look, how others look, calories, food etc. Food no longer consumes my every thought, and I never imagined being able to think "normal" like this. I have been obsessed with my weight, and food since I was 9 years old, feeling that I was "so fat" as I said in letters I would write home from summer camp. I am now 23 and after a few years of working on it, I feel normal, I feel healthy for the first time in my life.

Focus you concentrations on being healthy - not being thin. Everything you eat convince yourself you're doing it to get healthy, and every time you consider throwing up, remind yourself that it is a step backwards not forwards and are becoming more unhealthy. I have a lot of health issues caused from bulimia, find someone you can have as a support system, a close parent, youth pastor, councelor at school, not just a "peer" who is subject to the same pressures as you, someone older that will be able to hold you accountable.

Eat healthy foods and watch your calorie intake, eat between 1200-1600 a day, and start a moderate exercise program, If you don't already exercise, start walking and work your way up from there, if you do, try jogging etc. Work on your endurance, try to go 1 mile then 2 etc. GET HEALTHY!!!

If you ever need support, encouragement or any advice please don't hesitate to email me at [e-mail]

BEst of luck to you - recovering is possible so don't think that it's not! Take that step to get help, get support, get healthy!!!

<<HUGS>> Toni Lynne

Answer 3

1st thing.. quit throwing up. Have you done the research to find out all the horrible things that does to you? Eventually the stomach acid is going to start destroying your teeth. and if that fails. go see a shrink. Bulimia is a mental disorder. Also a normal doctor might be able to give you pills or something to make you unable to puke. I'm sure with all the technology there is there has to be something out there

Answer 4

The only way for you to be helped is to tell someone. You have to tell your mother... that's all there is too it. You can't do it on your own. My mother knew and had me in treatment and 10 years later I'm still doing it... It's really hard to stop once you start... trust me. I've been in and out of treatment and hospitals.. you have to get help now... my mom didn't know until i was 3 years into it... and now it's just my way of life, I am a mother and wife now and lived 10,000 miles away from my mother... my husband doesn't know and i will keep it that way. I know I wont get better and my life would be incredibly abnormal without it... so you need help now before you just accept this as how you will always be,