- While browsing the web, I came across a list titled “You know You’re Bulimic When…” that several people had contributed to. I copied the ones that resonated with me.
- You can’t walk past the laxative aisle without wanting to binge. (Or wanting to pick up a ton)
- When you know you’ll have time alone and plan out a huge binge, and feel happy about this.
- When you tell yourself that your meal is healthy enough, or that you won’t eat enough to trigger you and still end up back at the toilet.
- When you look at foods and sum up how easy they’d be to purge on a scale of super easy to jeez I don’t want to do this (and usually do anyhow)
- When you are jealous of anorexics
- When you are doing good at restricting yourself from food completely, but then you eat…and keep eating.
- When you binge and purge instead of sleep. (all the time)
- When you feel so so exhausted after a day of not doing nothing but eating and throwing up.
- When you count the hours until your laxatives kick in
- You have a separate section on your grocery lists for b/p foods
- When you weigh yourself everyday and let that decide how much you are allowed to eat
- Having people tell you you’re wasting food and money (thanks, mom)
- Any feeling of fullness in your stomach sets off the need to purge.
- When you eat healthy and still feel the need to purge
- Getting excited to binge and purge
And here are some of my own:
- The cashiers at the local grocery stores know you, and you worry about whether they take notice of how much food you buy…all the time.
- You argue with yourself over whether to pay rent or buy binge food.
- You throw away extra binge food to try to keep yourself from binging the next day.
- You end up just buying more binge food the next day anyway.
- Trying to follow your meal plan triggers binging and purging
- Not eating triggers binging and purging
- Binging and purging triggers binging and purging
- Pretty much <insert anything here> triggers binging and purging
- You avoid certain foods because of the way they taste the second time around
- You can binge on thousands of calories worth of food, but eating a normal meal or snack makes you cry.
I could probably keep going for the next hour.
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