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Bulimia, also known as bulimia nervosa, is a deadly and horrifying eating disorder in which an individual believes they are fat or overweight and lose weight through unhealthy and dangerous methods. These methods include self induced vomitting, excessive exercise, abuse of diuretics and laxatives, and sessions of binging and purging (consuming massive amounts of food and then forcing themselves to throw it back it up). Bulemia is extremely dangerous and in many cases deadly.
Most people with bulimia may seem perfectly normal and appear to be at a healthy weight. However, some people have such a low self-esteem and such a bad self-image that they turn to bulimia in an attempt to lose weight. Many women with bulimia are actually high achievers in other areas such as school or work, and may be trying to cover up their bulemia by succeeding in other areas. Just remembering, anyone can have bulimia. If you do, don't be embarassed. Treatment is available and help is out there. Keep reading!
Symptoms of Bulimia:
Someone with bulimia nervosa will suffer many side effects. Some of the short term effects that this eating disorder can cause include (but are not limited to):
Bulemia - Extreme weight loss over a short period of time
Bulemia - Malnutrition (due to extreme lack of food)
Bulemia - Depression and self-hatred
Bulemia - Headaches and bloodshot eyes
Bulemia - Fatigue
Bulemia - Obsession with body weight and appearance
If these aren't enough to scare anyone off from even attempting to lose weight through bulemia, lets look at some long term effects of this vicious eating disorder:
Tooth enamel breaks down due to constant contact with stomach acids when vomitting
Stomach ulcers
More prone to developing dental cavaties
Constant dehydration
Irregular heartbeat which can lead to heart attacks
Ruptures of stomach and esophogus
Higher chance of suicidal behaviors and feelings
It can be difficult to really know if someone has bulemia. However, if you are sure that someone you know and care about has bulemia, contact your doctor immediately. Confront the person about your feelings and try to help them. It's almost certain that they will be angry and embarassed, as well as try to deny that they have bulemia. However, you need to be stern and insist they get help. You could be saving that persons life. With the help of a doctor and a counsellor, almost anyone can be cured of bulimia.
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Where did I ever get the notion to throw up my food. Easy for me. At age nine a family Thanksgiving dinner. I over ate and was in pain from being over full. All the kids were talking about the food when a younger girl blurted out that her grandma would go throw up her food when she did not like what she ate. Than come back to a table and ate more so the host would believe that she like the food. Like it enough to have seconds.
Well I snuck off and stuck a finger down my throat. My face turned red; My heart was pounding. When I finished my sinful deed I thought for sure God would strike me dead. I could not sleep for a few days and prayed for God to spare me from being struck down dead.
Christmas dinner the same thing. Pain, relief, fear. It was a year later that I took up throwing up all my holiday meals. Little did I know what it would escalate to.
From ten years old and on I started to throw up every time I over ate. Maybe one to five times a month. My fears faded into the back ground as older more terrible fears from surgery and a mean dad took over. I have had emotional problems starting at the age of three. I was medically treated off and on very far apart most of my life for short periods of time.
After my second hip surgery the doctors really tried to get the message to me to loose weight. This would help my hip last longer. I had a weight problem most of my life. Obesity runs rapid in most of the people in my dads side. I was twelve and medically depressed from taking Valums. My father always told us girls how fat we were. He would grab what little fat we had and give it a shake and tell us we would never find a boyfriend. He did that through half of our teens. By age fourteen my dad ran away from home. My interest in boys was beginning to take off, but I was to shy to approach one except in a fight. I spent alot of time hiding from others. It was to painful to have anyone look at me. Not because I was fat, but shy. Afraid of everyone. By this age I was throwing up when ever I felt fat. Also all holiday meals. I was learning which foods not to eat that did not come up easily. I also could throw up by just leaning over. I also learned to throw up silently. I was in control now. It felt good to be in control of something. I liked eating and I liked throwing up. Not a soul ever knew I was throwing up. My first husband I married divorced and remarried and divorced again was sexually abusive and emotionally abusive to some degree. He would tell me how fat I was and threaten to lock me in a closet. It told me what a failure I was to my doctors, my hip, my husband. I tried to make up by being super human.
I became super mom. Clean the house spotless twice a week. Make meals for four even when dog sick and held down a job. I would throw up 6 to 20 times a day. I would hide food for late night binges. Finally in my mid twenties my health finally took slight turns. I would live on only two to four hours of sleep and still had nervous energy to give to every living soul I knew. It would make me so mad that no one could keep up. The late night binges were to help keep my secret, but when I threw up at times my chest would break out in tiny blood blisters. I had to cut more foods from my diets so that the easier food would be eaten to throw up later. Ice Cream, Cake. My heart would race so hard for to long after big binges and purges.
Around age 21 my original hip surgeon died of cancer. I wanted to cry, but dad had taught us all to well not to. So I let my emotions vent with exercise. It had been years sense I had exercised. It was P.E. in sixth grade that had caused my hip to fall apart so that it had to be redone. I found exercise as addictive as throwing up. Now I had a new way to feel in control. I joined a gym with trainers. I became a muscle women. On top of that I started construction work. Concrete Laborer. I quit eating. I went for 21 days with no meals. Every time I felt like passing out. I would drink Perrier water and ate a very small apple. The smallest apples I could find. For the first time in my life I was skinny. Even with all the muscles I wore a size 1 in womens' pants and size 14 in little girls clothes. I would do 200 stomach crunches every day. During my second divorce from the same husband is when I went to a counselor and in private told her about the throwing up. I had seen two counselors before. One at age 18 and another at age 21. This was my first women counselor. I also was learning not to be shy. I realized I was killing myself. From there I told my mom and sisters. My counselor had been shocked at how many times a day I threw up. There were times it reached over 30 times a day. Between starving myself; followed by days of binging. I struggled to correct it all. So I started to eat and weight started to go back on. I never did learn how to overcome on my own. It was the side effects that slowed me back down to throwing up two to three times a day.
Then about age 44 I had my first computer and found a group called Hiller. A group for loosing weight, but for me it taught me real control of my disorders. I learned to chew my food and sip my water. No more huge bites. I cured my reflux disease and got off medication. The only time I throw up now is when I started eating to fast or to big of bites. When I do fail that and throw up. My chest and heart hurts. My head feels like it is going to pop off and my chest breaks out in blood blisters. So very rarely now do I fall. I wish I could have controlled it sooner before the health problems drove back the bulimia. I wonder how many years I have carved off the end of my life from years of abuse. So those who are younger. Get help. You can not do it alone. Try everything out there that is available to help you. Somewhere is something that will help you gain control. You just have to find it and try not to do that alone. Two heads are better than one. I hope of those who are struggling will find my story as an encouragement to keep up the fight. Realized it might be the rest of your life fight. Now and years from now you are still going to need to be able to get away from that slow death. Start now.
My name is Lynn and I suffer from long term damage from Bulimia. Nutritional problems. Breathing. Hair, nails. It feels good to be away from the middle of such an addictive behavior. Like an Alcholic it will be my fight to the end. But I have a wonderful life now and would like to be around longer to enjoy it. Very rarely does bulimia rears it ugly head in my bathroom anymore. Please feel free to use this article but please keep my name and the link to my husbands web site linked with it. http://ragnarcellular.com/cellularphone/buy_cell_phone.html
Often you see articles on obesity and the health risks associated with being severely overweight. You might think it stands to reason, therefore, that if being obese is bad, then the extreme opposite - being very skinny - is good.
Not really. We have discussed on this site the dangers of being underweight, and the health risks associated with starvation. When you develop an eating disorder, however, those risks can be magnified, to say nothing of being fatal. One well-known case of an eating disorder that led to an untimely demise is that of singer Karen Carpenter. Fueled by self-consciousness and a desire to escape remarks of "chubbiness" that plagued her teen years, Karen literally starved herself, avoiding food and binging on laxatives and other over-the-counter medications to lose the weight more quickly.
As it happened, Karen did not need to lose the excess weight to be considered trim and healthy. Sadly, the excess took a toll on the perfomer's heart, and she died of cardiac arrest at the age of 32. If anything positive had come from Karen's death, it brought the plight of anorexia nervosa and other eating disorders to mainstream consciousness.
Now, one might think since Karen's death over twenty years ago people may have a better understanding of such disorders and work to avoid them. Unfortunately, we still find reed-thin actresses and models gracing the covers of fashion magazines. We still read tales of women and young girls who put their bodies through hell for the sake of attaining an ideal of beauty that few are able to achieve naturally. It is as if we have learned nothing.
Two of the more known eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia. Where a person who is anorexic strives not to eat, relying perhaps on mostly liquids and diuretics to lose weight, a bulimic engages in the very dangerous practice of eating, then throwing up everything before the food has a chance to digest. These eating disorders are usually brought on through a feeling of low self-worth or body image. Like Karen Carpenter, a person who develops such a disorder may have it in mind that he/she is fat, when in fact he/she may be at a normal weight/frame ratio or only a few pounds over. Taking a diet to such extremes will erase weight, yes, but will gain health problems, including:
* decreased blood pressure
* ulcers
* loss of menstrual cycle in women
* blood poisoning
* increased mental problems like depression
* serious heart problems
* decayed tooth enamel (from continuous vomiting)
When a person doesn't eat, the body starves for nutrients, and will search within for anything to keep the body moving. As a resul, other systems in the body may eventually shut down as a result, resulting in death. Though some people are genetically disposed to being thin, not every body is meant to be that way. It would be ideal, however, for every body to be healthy.
Weight loss is not about being thin, but being healthy
A sound weight loss program like the Compuslim program should not be designed to help people become super-thin, but to help people achieve their ideal weight/frame ratio. If you choose to take dietary supplements to aid your weight loss, it is important to adapt with it a nutrition and exercise regimen that will take off the weight sensibly and safely. To take supplements means you must also eat, and follow directions on the labels. Never take more of any supplement than is prescribed or recommended, and always pair supplements with good food.
Lastly, never be disheartened by the pictures you see of ultra-thin models or celebrities. A positive outlook and personality is essential to make weight loss a success, so remember that the ideal glamorized by TV and film may not be your ideal. With patience and diligence, you can achieve your weight loss goals.
Kathryn Lively is a freelance writer for various health and travel websites, including Compuslim (http://www.compuslim.com), custom fit weight loss for every body and lifestyle.
If good food is your problem then let be it because how hard you try to avoid it you will try it. So the next best thing to do is
1. Watch out for the Sensitive Seven, the most common reactive foods. These are typically the foods most frequently eaten by people in modern societies – cow's milk, wheat, cane sugar, eggs, corn (and corn syrup sweetener), soy products, and peanuts.
2. If you have strong cravings for a particular food and the sense that you must have it, there is a good chance you are reactive to that food. In that case, you'll find that you feel better after avoiding it for a couple of weeks. Then you can try it again. Challenge yourself and see if you react.
3. To prevent False Fat, eat a variety of wholesome, natural foods and minimize the processed foods in your diet.
4. Chew your food thoroughly and make sure that your digestive tract is working efficiently. If not, have it checked out and re-balanced with the aid of a naturally oriented practitioner.
5. Get regular exercise to help stimulate your metabolism and energy. You will find that it also cuts your appetite and burns calories.
6. General supplements that are supportive during the False Fat program are vitamin C and quercetin, vitamin A and zinc, niacin, blue green algaes, and MSM. To enhance your digestion, try hydrochloric acid, digestive enzymes, and probiotics.
7. The initial detoxification phase will lessen your food cravings for reactive foods and eliminate false fat quickly. To cut cravings, try additional vitamin C (1000-2000mg), calcium (250-500mg) and magnesium (150-250mg), and the trace mineral, chromium (200-300mcg).
Other health problems also improve with the False Fat diet.
8. The False Fat program, besides lowering your weight, will also improve your energy level and your overall health.
9. Your skin and your body will look and feel more youthful and vibrant
10. Rotate foods and avoid eating the same foods every day, especially wheat, sugar, and dairy products.
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