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When Should Someone Seek Treatment?
I am 18 years old and a student athlete at a university. I am very involved in track and field and work out at least 2 hours every day. I have had problems with food since I was 12, always dieting and worrying about becoming fat. I have been terrified of gaining any weight. For the past year, I have been chewing and spitting food, restricting, and ...
Why Am I Chewing and Spitting?
I've been struggling with my eating for the past nine months or so. For a long while I ate very little and had no problem, but in the past couple months I've been reverting to eating for entertainment again, which I was really unhappy about. I started chewing and spitting as a way of binging. Around the time all this began, I started doing this ...
I am a 33-year-old mother and have been bulimic every since my 13-year-old daughter's birth in desperation to lose weight. With this disorder, I immediately lost all the weight I had gained plus some. For the following years, I would sometimes binge and purge three-to-six times a day back-to-back. I know that this is severely unhealthy for me physi...
I'm 18 years old and have way better things I should be worrying about than food. I've had somewhat of a traumatic childhood: my parents got divorced when I was 13 and my mother got remarried and moved my sister and I across the country. We've adapted well, and I'm grateful I live where I do and glad I made the friends that I have. I know I should ...
Can Thinking About Food Contribute to Weight Gain?
I read an extremely informative answer from Dr. Carson regarding the negative effects of chewing and spitting. He explained that the cephalic and tasting phases of eating both trigger the release of insulin. This may seem silly, but if the cephalic phase of eating includes any suggestion of food such as seeing, hearing about, or smelling food -- ca...
My name is Drew and I am a 25-year-old male writing to ask a question about a chewing and spitting behavior I occasionally engage in. I've read the other posts on your website about this behavior and wanted to follow up about my experience with chewing and spitting. I have been overweight for most of my adult life and in the last year and half be...
First of all, let me congratulate you on the work that you are doing. Obviously, I think this is a very important issue, one that is often complicated by misconceptions, stereotypes and a general lack of understanding. It has been so helpful to have a resource like this where I can share videos with friends and family (if I am brave enough). Okay, ...
I was diagnosed with anorexia when I was 17. I'm 23 now. I've gained back the weight and am at a healthy weight now. I used to struggle with chewing and spitting for four years, but about one month ago, I stopped doing it and am still fighting to keep clean from doing it. However, I don't eat as much as I probably should – I take in less than 1000...
I'm an 18 year-old recovered anorexic. When I was 15, I had problems with my high expectations regarding sports and relationships and eventually found myself in a rut and an eating disorder. It was a struggle to get back up to a healthy weight and in the right frame of mind again, but I did it. Now I'm a freshman in college, living away from...
Unable to Tell Friends or Therapist about Chewing and Spitting
Chewing and spitting became my activity of choice as my eating disorder spun out of control last fall. My weight has fluctuated while I've alternated between anorexia and binge eating. I've been able to tell my friends and therapist about the issues that surround this fluctuation, but I've never been able to tell anyone about the behavior that I en...
Sore Throat Related to Chewing and Spitting?
I am a 24 year old who has been chewing and spitting for at least 2 years. My throat has been sore lately and I wonder if it could be related? I also am under much stress, due to a new job, new location, relationship snaffu, and several trips to the doc to see about my absent periods, hair loss, etc. I have wondered if I have PCOS (Poly-Cystic Ovar...
Chewing and Spitting Food: Seeking Recovery Methods
I began the behavior of chewing and spitting food when I was 13. I just created the behavior one day after making a batch of brownies. It's not something I ever heard of or discussed with anyone. It was just my secret that I didn't think anyone else did (until the last five - ten years). I was a very pained girl at the time having just experienced ...
Chewing and Spitting - Will This Cause Weight Loss?
I have begun chewing and spitting one or two times per day to relieve stress. I don't want to become scary skinny – if I continue to chew and spit out all of my food, will I start to lose too much weight? - Leslie...
Chewing and Spitting: Do I Need Help?
I'm 23, and ever since I can remember I have had a difficult relationship with food. In my teens I was a model and flirted with anorexia but the last 6 years I have increased weight constantly. I first developed the chewing/spitting as a way to taste chocolate without really eating it. But now never a day goes by without me eating an entire chocola...
Moving, Anemia Making Me Self-Destruct
I recently moved to a new state. I left my friends my job and my Gym routine. Since I moved out here I have been having some physical problems; sudden weakness, achy muscles, lethargy, fatigue. It is terrible I worry about not being able to clean or go to work and stuff like that. I worry that if I go out people are going to make do physical activi...
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