BED and Bulimia??

[Chibi]

I was just wondering if the people who frequent this form- the BEDers- used to be bulimic and thats where you got into the whole binge eating thing?
Or do you guys try to purge afterwards but forwhatever reason cant?

see, my friend's a bit ana at the moment but whenever she eats morethan she plans to she wants to purge it, even though shes never purged before and doesnt seem to be able to.
does purging seem like a way out for you guys?

[m!lk]

I seem to have an aversion to puking, whenever I was ill as a kid, I would try my best not to be sick. I think I must just hate it.
Now I'm not so sure, I know that it doesn't sit well with me, thinking about puking food. I'd actually rather keep the calories & deal with it.. I would be an epic bulimic if I purged and in the long run, it would seriously destroy my life. At least having to face the consequences of a binge (weight-gain) means that I try my best not to do it again. If I puked then I would empty and carry on for the whole day over and over. I do purge with exercise sometimes but I think that is extremely different to purging with vomit. It would be too difficult to purge after a binge for me, because I'm usually dehydrated when I start and I don't drink at all whilst eating. Saying that though, yesterday I did actually try to purge my breakfast.. I dunno why but I set a condition for myself that if I was going to try, I couldn't use my hands. It worked, I was shocked.. i stopped half way through because I wasn't bothered about the calories, I just wanted to prove to myself that I could puke. I have tried many times after a 3000+ calorie binge, but there's no chance that shit is budging, ever. Hehe quite a long post.. I didnt 100% get the question you see. I didn't used to be bulimic, no, I used to be anorexic.

[writtenthin]

yeah i used to be bulimic but i dont think thats when the binging really started. i wouldn't really binge technically before i would purge it was more an "oh my god.. i just ate.. must get rid of all food in belly!!" kind of thing. binging for me came when i hit university. when i just entirely let everything go. stopped working out, stopped purging, stopped restricting just ate with my bf, went out to eat, ate at home... ate all the time and did school work and slept and that was my life. hence the 100 pound weight gain....

[becauseittastesgood]

I think all bulimics have BED but purging disqualifies BED as a diagnosis. For the majority of bulimics myself included, if we can gain control of binging then the purging would disappear because there would be no need to in the first place. It is such a shame that during treatment they lump us all in with anorexics as if they are the same thing. You have to sit there and listen to how other people hate food and cant finish a tiny meal. How does that apply to those who binge and think about food 24/7?

But as a recovering bulimic I still struggle with binging and still do but since purging isn't an option the binges usually don't exceed 1500 calories. I eat most of my daily food in one meal since it satisfies the binge urge and I do it right before bed so the urge to eat more or purge goes away. I'm not sure if I classify for BED.

But to those that think purging is a way out, think again! I gained a good 15 pounds binging/purging and its an uncontrollable cycle. Because you think to yourself, "I'm just gonna throw this all up anyways" you will end up eating far more than you would non-purge.

[Chibi]

I seem to have an aversion to puking, whenever I was ill as a kid, I would try my best not to be sick. I think I must just hate it..

Yeah that kind of sounds like me- i didnt puke for like 10 years straight because whenever i foudn myself feeling naseous i would shut it down coz i found being sick so gross. (which was why i always thought other people were weak when they throw up on buses or whatever lol- well ive fallen off my high horse now! :P)
Now that i purge everyday its a different matter

[shona]

i started off bulimic these days i tend to jump from one to the other like if things are going good or ok in my life i tend to binge and not worry about but when im stressed or things are falling apart in other area's of my life i go back to b/ping probably because of the high i get from purging and the fact that i dont need to think about all the stuff that stressing me out