If i want to lose weight, wich is better to be, anorexic or bulimic?
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If I had to choose, I'd pick bulimia.  You still get to eat that way.  However, I'm not emotionally unstable, so I don't have to pick either.  Catch my drift?
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Bulemia is not a good way to lose weight.  Apart from the health factors,\n1. After you throw up you get hungry again quickly.  So you're right back where you started.\n2. If you don't eat you *will* have less energy and you *will* be faint.  The fact that food briefly visited your gut does not change this.\n\nPure bulemics don't tend to be thin, in my experience.  Rather the opposite.  Thin bulemics usually are anorexic, who starve themselves and then occasionally vomit when they have betrayed whatever arcane rules they have set up for "acceptable" food consumption.  Bulemia also tends to be obvious to your friends and family, which will set you up for a visit to the psych ward.\n\nIt's a serious mental disorder.  Not a game.
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That sound like an excellent plan.....you ound like you are realy into losing weight healthy asnd not in a starvation diet.....ive had episodes of anerexia and i dont want that happeneing to you...just remember to always saty healthy and dont forget that exerecise.....god luck
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You'll have the best luck if you employ the assistance of a councellor experienced in eating disorders.\n\nI believe that Bulemic impulses are in large part influenced by psychological factors that include self-esteem and also a strong sense that too many things in life that are important to you are beyond your control.  What you allow your body to consume is often one of the few things that a person can truly control and can thus become a focus of that psychological need.\n\nPsychologists have been dealing with eating disorders for a long time now and that is one area that they no longer struggle to treat effectively.\n\nYou do need to find one you feel comfortable with though.\n\nPlan on visiting two or three regardless of how they strike you, just so you can feel like you chose one you have nice chemistry with.\n\nChances are also really good that this new relationship will end up benefiting you in other areas of your life over the years and be a really positive addition to your support network.\n\nGood luch!
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both are types of eating disorders. eating disorders involve serious disturbances in eating behavior.\n\nanorexia nervosa, typically called anorexia, is where there is resistance to maintaining body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height; intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight; disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight. \n\npeople with this disorder see themselves as overweight eventhough they are dangerously thin. the process of eating becomes an obsession. unusual eating habits develop such as avoiding food and meals, picking out a few foods and eating these in small quantities, or carefully weighing and portioning food. people with anorexia may repeatedly check their body weight, and many engage in other techniques to control their weight, such as intense and compulsive exercise, or purging by means of vomiting and abuse of laxatives, enemas, and diuretics.\n\nwhile bulimia nervosa, typically called bulimia, where there are recurrent episodes of binge eating characterized by eating an excessive amount of food within a discrete period of time and by a sense of lack of control over eating during the episode; recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior in order to prevent weight gain such as fasting, excessive exercise, self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives, diuretics, enemas, or other medications (purging); the binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors both occur, on average, at least twice a week for 3 months; self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight.\n\nbecause purging or other compensatory behavior follows the binge-eating episodes, people with bulimia usually weigh within the normal range for their age and height. however, like individuals with anorexia, they may fear gaining weight, desire to lose weight, and feel intensely dissatisfied with their bodies. people with bulimia often perform the behaviors in secrecy, feeling disgusted and ashamed when they binge, yet relieved once they purge.
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She was in a British mag this week (Heat)admitting that she has an eating disorder and is really unhappy with her size. She would like to go back to the size she was a bout a year ago but became addicted to losing weight. Most eating disorders are neither anorexia or bulemia but a mix of both- I suspect that Nicole is suffering from a mix of both.
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http://www.anorexiaandbulimia.cellularsouth.be/treat-bulimia/bulimia-support-groups.html\n\nYou can try this site. It has a few links to other sites too.
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Your body will never be as beautiful as you want it to be...no one's ever is!  If you get a good exercise program, you can tone up and some gyms can offer a personal trainer to help you.  As you age, your body changes its shape whether you like it or not. Stop looking at all the magazines in the check out counter, they are not realistic.  Look at the people around you that are your age.  Don't ruin your body by being bulimic, it's not worth it.  Enjoy yourself.  Do you have a support group you can join? That could be great help for you.  I am a Nurse Practitioner in Family Practice, and this is the advice I give a lot of the gals that are struggling for the "hour glass" figure! Find a BMI chart and strive for a healthy BMI of about 22-24. (BMI is calculated by dividing height in inches by weight in pounds by weight in pounds X 703, which is why you're better off with a chart.)
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anyone can be anorexic or bulimic. Men too.
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What weight do you want to go down to? You want to waste away until you are nothing and so unattractively emaciated so that no man wants you or thinks your beautiful? You have a serious problem dear and I suggest you seek help please. bulemia is serious and you can get very ill from making yourself throw up all of the time and I am pretty sure you know this already. Your teeth will start to rot from the acid (if it hasnt already). Your self image is distorted by your brain. This is not healthy. Beautiful women are not starved. Do for yourself and eat properly.\n\nALSO this is what you said on another post to a girl that wanted to lose weight:\n\nAm in the same "bad" situation as u and i knw that it's a kind of war with yourself!The trick is to challenge yourself every day and do really what u have in your mind. \nDn't feel depressed when ur laziness is taking over ur determination n do ur upmost best to catch up the next day!\nN REMEMBER-U R NT ALONE!!! \n\ntake your own advice. Challenge yourself. Stop giving in to those temptations to throw up. Eat healthy, be healthy.
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i'm like you but opposite..\n\ni'm bulimic with periods of straight restriction from foods. i compulsively exercise and binge/purge atleast twice a day. \n\nmy answer to you is to seek professional help, but you need to be fully dedicated to wanting to get helped. i'm a 17 year old girl who was hospitalized about a year ago. i was scared to death and basically ate to gain weight and get the heck out of there. a few weeks after returning home i went back to my old habits. dont get me wrong, i would kill to be my "old" self again, its just really really hard. \n\ni wish you the best of luck sweetie. and you can accomplish anything you put your mind to.
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Not everyone dies from anorexia. Some people get better eat well and gain weight back only to relapse years later.My mother was anorexic years before I was born when she was young and she was very sick but after treatment she gained weight again. When I was a kid she relapsed and again stopped eating. I think anorexia can return at any time as you are never really 'cured' its always there, a constant battle. My mother is now 59 and she is still paranoid about what and when she eats, I'm always nagging her to eat better, to stay healthy. Most can eat enough to stay alive but still be slim although the long term damage caused by lack of proper nutrition is not good.\nMaybe your friends sister is bulimic if she's recently lost alot of weight and was a compulsive overeater? Bulimics and anorexics have the same goal (to lose weight) but bulimics eat then throw up where anorexics just don't eat much if anything at all.
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Others are wrong when they say you either are or aren't anorexic. There is an inbetween. I started out with a mild case of anoexia and it grew tremendously. Be careful, dear. If you even have thoughts about yourself being anorexic, you probably are. Please, get some help now. Anorexia will most likely be a struggle for your entire life if you don't nip it in the bud. Good luck and stay healthy. I will be thinking about you.
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Never been bulimic before but my mom was anorexic a few years ago and now she watches what she eats, check on some information on the glycemic index\nGood Luck
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They are both good for losing weight. Maybe try walking one day and the next day riding,then walking then riding. It also helps if you have someone to do this with. HEY I'm willing to walk and ride with you but depending were you live we might have a long walk or ride, I'm in Illinois. I really need to lose weight to.
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being bulimic is said to be a mental disease. you should really talk to someone about it, because tryin to fix it by yourself wont help. you need an outside help. its good that you want stop from a early stage. just get help and fight it, and be determined. it seems like youll be ok, but plese get help.
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ur not anerexic. if you stop eating and think ur loking obease ur prolly not lyk the other 61% of america that eats for a living. c'mon who wants to be fat!! just dont lose ne im 5'2 and im 110 lbs so u could gain more if nething but if it u lose dramatically go to a doctor cuz anerexia is hard to get rid of and a bad struggle!!