i have odd eating habits. its mainly a cycle. ill start it at eating normally. normal portions, kinda all take-out food, but still as healthy as it gets for me. then sooner or later, i realize it tastes really good and i end up eating ridiculous portions to the point of throwing up or almost throwing up [not purging.] after it gets extremely bad i notice somethings really wrong and suddenly start fasting the next day all of these periods last various amounts of time. i wont eat at all or very little till cravings set in again. im always concerned with calories and what im eating except when i binge. i really want something to help me stop binging so that the rest of the issues will also go away since its all based upon my weight. charts say im 5 lbs under a healthy weight, and my doctor said i was really a perfect weight for my height, but my intent is to be thin [dont discuss my thoughts on thinness, discuss the topic at hand.] and im discouraged when i see how i look. any advice?
2007-04-27 14:49:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
I am not a doctor, but a recovering bulimic myself. Your behaviors sound like the patterns I developed in the earlier stages of my illness. Be careful when consulting your doctor. In my opinion, some doctors just don't understand eating disorders. Good to consult more than one.
Like i said, I'm no doctor, but this definitely sounds like symptoms of bulimia.
Instead of trying to make this all about food and eating please think about your eating behaviors and try to determine where they come from.
Bulimia follows a pattern of deprivation, followed by indulgence, followed by deprivation, then indulgence, and so on. Do you notice those patterns in yourself? Do you resrict your eating most of the day and then "eat ridiculous" at night. When you binge do you fast for a period of time afterwards. That is a typical indulge-deprive pattern that's very harmful to your health and well-being. Everybody has too much to eat from time to time but are you doing it by mistake or intentionally? If so then what's going on with you just before a binge? Does something set you off emotionally hours before?
Eating disorders are not really about food. A bulimic or compulsive overeater is not a glutton, they are just trying to stop a pain the best way they know how.
Recovery requires sticking to a healthy plan of eating and learning how to nurture yourself from within instead of indulging with food.
If anything I've said here is helpful, and you're interested in more info, let me know. Good luck to you.
2007-04-27 15:22:51 · answer #1 · answered by littlesockpuppet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
M y best suggestion is, to keep you from binging, or for the times that you are not hungry at all, is maybe to try a slimfast shake or some sort of shake that is meant to keep you from being hungry so that you do not overeat. It will keep you from binge eating, and when you are not hungry you should drink ine anyways so that you can stay at a healthy weight, (even if you want to be skinny, you really need yo eat to keep from getting anemic, but with excercise you can be a healthy weight, maybe more than your ideal, but you can still be toned.) I hope that can be of you assistance. GOOD LUCK SWEETIE!!! i dont think that that is an eating disorder at all, but it is a little strange just have a shake for each meal and you should be fine, and stay regular.
2007-04-27 21:58:29 · answer #2 · answered by jordannnnn861 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously talk to your doctor about all your concerns.
This falls under EDNOS.
The only way to get over it is to talk to someone about it, which you should bc it only gets worse.
I've been through something similar and if you dont get help soon, it ruins your body. You said you don't want to get fat, but obsessive eating will ruin your metabolism, especially if you fast afterwards. And before you know it you gain weight obsessively.
The best thing to do is to talk to a health care provider of some sort about it. They can get you back on the right track to eating health/normal in ways that wont make you gain weight.
2007-04-27 22:02:03 · answer #3 · answered by lilbit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like bulemia (binging and purging) with a slight twist in that the purging is involuntary. But it sounds like you still need some help with this.
And the underlying issue is the root cause - deal with whatever that really is (and for me it wasn't about weight or being thin), then all this will resolve itself.
2007-04-27 21:54:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could be classified as E.D.N.O.S (eating disorders not otherwise specified). You seem to be having a classic case of binge eating disorder with anorexic thoughts. Try to just STOP dieting for a month, and see what happens. Most likely you'll overeat the first week, but by the end of the month you'll be back to normal eating and stop with the yo-yo dieting and starve-and-binge cycle.
2007-04-27 21:54:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could actually have EDNOS (eating disorder not specified). A person with ednos does'nt really qualify as anorexic or bulimic, but can have some characteritics of both. They also have a normal or almost normal weight for their height. Talk to your doctor or google it. I hope I helped you.
2007-04-27 21:57:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds like a form of bulemia
2007-04-27 21:58:05 · answer #7 · answered by pecola princepessa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you sound Obsessive Compulsive
2007-04-27 21:53:30 · answer #8 · answered by Mopar Muscle Gal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋