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Can You Be Overweight and Bulimic?
I am 17 years old. I am 5 ft. tall and weigh ***lbs... In January I realized I was overeating and gained so much weight since. For 7 months now I have been throwing up after I eat anything. I have lost ***lbs so far... I feel like I've lost control over how much I eat and then purge. A friend I told said that I was bulimic but I don’t think this is...
Hi! I honestly don't know if I have or had an eating disorder. As a teen I rarely felt hungry and didn't eat much, skipping meals for days at a time. If I didn't like what my Mom made for supper, I just wouldn't eat it. So that was me as a teen and it continued on into my early twenties. Then, I started eating more junk food and the pounds star...
What do I do About My Body at Age 40?
I am in my 40s and over the last few years, my waist has started thickening to the point that clothes don't fit me the way they used to just a year ago! I have also gained about ***lbs. I hate it! I am trying to eat intuitively, but find it is harder than ever before. I can't exercise as much as I would like because of my schedule, but also even wh...
How do I Find Balance and Peace?
Hi. I'm 32 years old and have been overweight since about age 10. Over the last 2 years, I've lost weight with Weight Watchers several times. I lose weight and then start gaining it back. I am in the gaining part of this cycle right now. In the past I've lost weight in a variety of unhealthy ways, and Weight Watchers seemed the most sensible. But I...
Body Image: What Else Can I Do?
I've never had trouble with my self-image until this summer when I began getting cellulite on my thighs and noticed that my stomach is no longer as flat as it used to be. By no means am I obese, but in all of the BMI calculators I've seen, I am just on the verge of being overweight. I run cross-country and since that ended I've continued to run e...
Why Am I Accumulating Fat This Way?
Hi, I have had tendancy toward anorexia in past. I now eat a lot more. I have put on fat quite significantly from my waist down and have gone up a jean size, but from my waist up I look emaciated. Why is this? I no longer exercise. Is this why my legs and bottom have accumulated the fat, but not my top half? I am also osteopenic. Does this effect w...
How Many Calories Do I Need for Athletics?
I wanted to thank you for responding to my question. I have posted the question/reply below. I am having a VERY hard time finding a dietician who is familiar with eating disorders and athletes. One year ago I was in-patient at Remuda Ranch and when I left they said I needed 1,900 calories a day WITHOUT exercise to remain *** pounds. But when I went...
Thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. I have struggled with eating disorders for more than 13 years of my life and I just recently went to counseling to help me work through some of my issues. I decided to try to get some help because I have two baby girls now and I am terrified of passing my unhealthy habits on to them. And, it ha...
How Do I Get Healthy in Mind and Body?
As long as I can remember, I always have been trying to lose weight the wrong way. Finally, in my mid-to-late twenties I stopped, knowing that I was just hurting myself more in the long run. I lost ** pounds by eating healthy. I have gone up and down over the past six years in that ** pound range. Even at my lightest, I was **-** pounds overweigh...
Tangled Mess of Disordered Eating
My history with eating is a tangled mess. Where to begin? As a first grader, I remember my mom putting me on diets. She was bulimic, using laxatives. Though I was not overweight, I had family members who were. I guess she projected her weight issues onto me and there began her attempt to control my weight. I can remember sitting at the lunch table ...
Can an Overweight Person Have an ED?
I am an overweight person (legitimately overweight in terms of BMI) who either has absolutely no control over what I am eating or controls it so much that I will only eat 200-300 calories per day. Each time that I set out to lose weight and become healthier, it goes fine for about two weeks, and then I go off the deep end and only let the very, ver...
I'm writing because I've always been overweight (according to that BMI and doctors) and have never been able to lose the weight in my life. I think the most I've ever lost was five pounds in a period of six weeks and that was on Weight Watchers, which I couldn't eat all they wanted me to eat on that plan. I don't over-eat, although I probably don'...
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 ...
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...
Do I Have To Gain Weight To Be Healthy?
I unintentinally lost over ** pounds gradually over a year or so. I wasn't doing anything other than constantly being "careful" and "healthy" so that I wouldn't gain weight - not trying to lose and not being way radical. Anyway, the doctor recently told me to gain 20-25 pounds and to eat this and that and my response inside was alarming. For the fi...
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