It's intentional.

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From a distance you look like my friend,

even though we are at war.

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its bulimia if you throw up. period.

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to the OP:  no, that isnt bulimia

What you're describing is a normal consumption of food, or even small portions of food followed by compensatory behaviour (purging). This type of disorder is classified under EDNOS, and is called bulimirexia, or more commonly known as purging disorder (though commonly seen as two separate disorders, it is sometimes hard to distinguish between the two - one being characterised by normal intake of food, and the other of below normal intake). EDNOS stands for Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified, and basically means any abnormal or disordered eating patterns, that fall outside of the criteria of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

Your friend is wrong, but that doesn't mean that what you're doing is any better. While binging and purging is not healthy, eating smaller amounts then purging is not any healthier. You will slowly kill your body. You will most likely develop the condition known as GORD if you continue this behaviour, as well as other things such as an inflammation of your oesophagus, constipation, damaged and yellow teeth, damaged and yellow fingers, your throat will swell up, and you'll be quite revolting to look at. Not to mention, you'll hardly lose any weight. You'll just get sick to the point where they'll hospitalise you and force you to eat.

It really isn't pretty.  I hope you have intentions of stopping this bad habit, and breaking the cycle of purging.

Post edited at 6:26 am on Sep. 22, 2009 by hi sarah

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binge eating is one of the primary symptoms of Bulimia Nervosa. A binge involves eating, in a short period of time, an amount of food that is larger than most individuals would eat under similar circumstances. ~~MentalHelp.net

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If you don't go on binge eating sprees beforehand, that doesn't make it any less better. You're still forcing yourself to throw up, and in the end the same consequences are going to happen. Meaning that you are tearing up your esophagus and still putting yourself at risk to infection in several areas of your body (such as your salivary glands.) Along with that, you're risking other issues such as broken blood vessels, respiratory disease, and many other issues.  So is it better? Not at all. You're depriving yourself of nutrients (granted a lot of them still do stay in your body, but not to the fullest extent) along with putting yourself at a heightened risk for other issues. Although it wouldn't be classified as Bulimia Nervosa, that certainly doesn't mean there isn't an issue at hand. :/

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