I’ve been studying both disorders fairly extensively in my psychology class. Most people with bulimia aren’t extremely skinny. Once they do reach a certain low body weight, they in the binging and purging subtype of anorexia. A person, diagnostically, cannot be both anorexic and bulimic.
Well, the first criteria is that they consume more food in a specific time period than people usually would.
Also, vomiting isn’t the only compensatory behavior that bulimics will engage in, although it is the most common. People may also take diuretics and laxatives, get enemas, overly exercise or starve themselves to compensate for the large amount of food that they consume.
Most people who are bulimic stay at a normal or above-normal body weight. This is because, when you throw something up, your body has often absorbed many of the calories that the food contains anyway.
