How do you get over an eating disorder, specifically bulimia and its addictiveness?
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 at
7:33 pm
uNrAveLeD asked:
I’m a bulimarexic and I’ve been struggling with Recovery over the past 2yrs. I’ve been eating disordered for approximately 10yrs. Initially with Recovery, I’d allowed myself to gain some weight knowing that it was necessary for my body to familiarize itself with food again. However, I’ve gone from 10lbs to 20lbs and I haven’t been able to deal with the weight gain. Also, instead of eating “normally” (whatever that means), I’ve been existing on obscene amounts of chocolate.
I’m a bulimarexic and I’ve been struggling with Recovery over the past 2yrs. I’ve been eating disordered for approximately 10yrs. Initially with Recovery, I’d allowed myself to gain some weight knowing that it was necessary for my body to familiarize itself with food again. However, I’ve gone from 10lbs to 20lbs and I haven’t been able to deal with the weight gain. Also, instead of eating “normally” (whatever that means), I’ve been existing on obscene amounts of chocolate.
As this is a very serious issue, I’d appreciate serious comments only. I’m not looking for tips or tricks to lose weight, instead I’m searching for ideas and ways to make the process and journey a lot easier, though I’m not sure if that is possible.
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The best response to this I think would be that you talk to someone. As with many addictions, you just do better with some support and knowledge. There are many support groups out there who know more about it than the average person. Does your family know you are going through this? Talk to them. Family is usually the best support system. If you can’t talk to them, then try a close friend. Don’t keep it inside. Talk.
You need lots of therapy, and everyone in your life must be involved in your recovery, you need all the support you can get. Best of luck to you.
I think you need t go see a doctor and stop throwing up every time you eat that is disgusting and not healthy.
I’m overcoming a wave of EDs, too, and have gained 15lbs since I first tried to recover, only a year ago.
Accepting the new weight isd extremely hard because you never feel thin when you’ve been thinner before. And we’ll always know in the back of our minds how good it feels, and how much better the world treated us when we fit into a size 2.
One of the things that really helped me learn to eat rightly again was becoming a vegetarian/vegan. I didn’t do it to lose weight, but leanring about all of the nutrition behind it helped wonderfully. I still have a great deal of slip-ups when I eat too much, but it’s working its way out of my life gradually. Meanwhile, I try to eat only whole foods, obviously no meat, dairy, or eggs (or anything containing them), no oil, and I try to keep daily calories at a healthy limit. Also, cravings really nix when you get nutrients, so eat only things that will give your body something it needs (for instance, chocolate gives you body nothing and is a wasted chuck of calories) and take multivitamins daily. Water, too, at least 2 liters a day. And a small trick: going without sugar for a few days gets rid of the craving–when I did this, a ate a small apple whenever I wanted something sweet. Now, I limit fruit to 2 or 3 times as day.
Anyway, as far as body image goes, that’s something that your mind is going to accept once you’re ready. I haven’t really accepted it yet, either, and am still trying to lose 10lbs in a healthy manner. It can also be a manner of just becoming more humble, since being thin can make a woman feel very powerful. You have to look at yourself and say, “damn, I’m not the best. Fine. Goddamn it, but fine.” Kind of like pretending you just had your first child and your body will never be the same, only in this situation, the blessing isn’t a baby, but your health–and your life.
I guess that’s all I can really say, except good luck, and take care of yourseslf.