08/04/2009
I have recovered from bulimia, anorexia, overeating and binge eating
Every Tuesday, Mama shares a story written by one of our visitors. Today’s story is written by Maya
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First of all let me just say that I am not here to promote or sell anything. I am just a very average girl who has recovered from all eating disorders after years of hell. In the end I had pretty much accepted that I would always have some type of eating disorder and that the best I could hope for was to find some strict diet/fitness regime that would manage my weight. But I never really believed that I could have freedom from the obsession. I never thought that I could get that monkey off my back. It
has now been two years since I have been COMPLETELY FREE.
Methods I tried to get help:
I have done everything possible to try to solve this eating disorder puzzle. Absolutely everything you can think of.
Hospitalization, therapists, 12 step programs, support groups, hypnosis, meditation, psychotherapy, specialized eating disorder counseling. Buying EVERY SINGLE book possible on the subject, diet books, self help books, forums, prayer, meditation, support groups in my area. None of these ever worked for me. I will not say that they cant work for some people, but they simply did not work for me. And I really tried my best at all of them.
What I was like.
I was a real rock bottom case. I lost an amazing job, I had no friends, I would spend days in isolation, I was hospitalized 3 times, I have been overweight and underweight, I lost boyfriends and a very loving fiancé. This eating disorder took EVRYTHING from me at different times. It went on for almost 9 years in various disguises. At certain points I had relief, but never real freedom. Today I do. I am completely, 100% free. I am fully recovered. The reason I am writing this is that I swore to myself that if
I ever did recover from this I would try to help as many people as possible. I made a promise to myself and it is so important that I cannot back down from it. If there is anything that I want it is to help someone else to achieve this sort of recovery.
At various stages my eating disorders looked like this – For a period of 2 years I was completely anorexic. I only ate certain sugary things for energy when I felt that I was about to pass out. I was buying kids clothes at age 21. I had no friends, never went out with friends to restaurants because I didn’t want them questioning my eating. I was completely alone and all my thought were dedicated to food, what I would/wouldn’t eat and getting temporary highs from buying the smallest jeans available.
From there I moved on to a period of control mixed in with binge episodes. My weight gradually increased and I always felt fat and ashamed. I would gain massive amounts of weight and then lose it through various methods that were always self punishing and painful. I ended up completely bulimic and had lost my job, boyfriend and friends. I was hospitalized twice at this point and there were weeks on end when I couldn’t leave the house – except to buy food. I’ll spare you all the details – if anyone is reading this they know very well all the different lengths that eating disorder sufferers will go to.
What I really want to focus on is the fact that today I have completely recovered. I get shivers down my back as I write this and I want to cry because it is the biggest miracle I have witnessed in my life, to date.
What this means is the following:
- I NEVER diet. I don’t look at how many calories, carbs or fat anything has. I don’t care and I know that it is irrelevant. No matter how hard I had tried I would never find the “magic” formula. If you want to know the magic formula it is this: don’t count anything. The eating disorder is an obsession that lives in the mind. The freedom and the healthy body come once you are released from that obsession. As long as I was counting, adding, subtracting and calculating, I wasn’t free. The ED had me.
- I only exercise to feel better emotionally. Exercise makes me feel good. It boosts my mood and makes me happy. This is why I do it now – I don’t punish myself, I don’t look at how many calories I have burned and if I’m busy and don’t get to workout, I don’t care.
- I eat out with my friends and love it. I go out as often as I can because I live in an amazing city with so much nightlife. I look at the menu and find the things that appeal to me. I eat whatever I feel like and I don’t fuss about how much fat/calories it has. If I am still hungry I eat dessert. Sometimes I finish everything and sometimes I don’t. It just depends on whether I feel full and what else I have had that day (or whether I enjoy the meal!)
- Once I have finished a meal or snack I don’t think about it again. No matter what it was. I don’t think of anything in terms of “good” or “bad”. I just don’t think about it. I eat, I finish and then I get on with my life. The easting disorder does not live in my head because I don’t play dangerous games like dieting, calorie counting or over exercising.
What It is like today
Today I woke up late because I had a late night out. I did some work and when I felt hungry after a few hours I made my favorite meal. I have no idea how much fat/carb/content it has. I just know I like it. Then I made something else that I love an hour later because I was still hungry. Again, I would have a clue about the calorie content and I don’t care. I just know that I love the taste; it fills me up and gives me energy to continue my work (writing). Later I will probably have whatever meal I feel like – I have a few favorite things at the moment and I will see what I feel like later. If I want it I have it and if I don’t, I stop. I know what full means and it makes me feel sick to have more than my body wants. I don’t watch what other people are eating and I don’t engage in conversations about dieting, weight loss or unhealthy tricks to lose weight. I still drink diet drinks because I like the taste, but if I am somewhere where they don’t have any, I just drink the regular drink. I never worry about it because I understand something – that one regular drink doesn’t make me fat. The obsessive thinking and control does.
Last night I went to a friend’s fundraiser and there was food there. It was a buffet and I picked out the things that I genuinely like. The girl serving said “I love girls who eat real food and not just salad”. As I
write this I cannot believe that I am that girl. I would never have eaten at an event before. If I did, it would have been an overeating episode and I would have had to go straight home after. I ate my meal with my friend and then we all sat around talking for hours. Not at any point did I think about what I had eaten
My body is healthy and normal. I am a perfect weight for my height and I am attractive. I don’t look at other girls or compare myself – ever. I don’t discuss diets or weight loss under any circumstances. Even though I am recovered, I will protect my recovery and sanity because I am so grateful for it.
If this has helped anybody, I am blessed. If there is anything else I can do, please contact me. I am available to anyone looking for help. Even if you are not sure, even if you are still in the grips of it. I don’t
discriminate because I understand the powerlessness. I am here for you to do what I can, because I have been given this gift and don’t want to lose it.
FEEL FREE TO CONTACT ME AT
mayanewyork@gmail.com
- Maya
I AM BULIMIC SINCE ABOUT TEN YEARS. I TOLD MY HUSBAND AS WE WERE DATING OVER FIVE YEARS AGO. NOW WE HAVE BEEN MARRIED FOR FIVE YEARS AND WE HAVE A GREAT MARRIAGE. MY HUSBAND IS A GREAT MAN AND WORK VERY HARD SO HE CAN PROVIDE US WITH EVERYTHING POSSIBLE. WE DON’T HAVE KIDS, BUT WE’LL LIKE TO HAVE JUST ONE IN THE FUTURE.
THE OTHER NIGHT I HAD A HUGE URGE TO VOMIT SO BAD AFTER DINNER, HE REALIZED SO AND TALK TO ME OUT OF NOT GOING TO THE BATHROOM AND VOMIT WHAT WE JUST SHARED OVER DINNER. MY HUSBAND IS A COP, HE IS GOOD AT TALKING PEOPLE OUT OF BAD SITUATIONS. MY HUSBAND GOT ME INTO BED AND CALM ME DOWN AS I CRY FOR WANTING TO VOMIT MY FOOD. I TOLD HIM THAT IT WAS BOTHERING ME INSIDE AND IT WAS HURTING ME; AND HE IN A CALM TONE OF VOICE SAID: IT HURTS BECAUSE IT NEED TO BE TALKED ABOUT AND MAYBE WITH A HELP OF A THERAPIST IT CAN HELP YOU OR HELP ME TO HELP YOU TO THROW IT ALL UP IN WORDS, AND ADDED: SOMETHING IS BOTHERING YOU INSIDE AND WE NEED TO DEAL WITH IT WITH THE HELP OF A THERAPIST. HE CONTINUE TOUCHING MY HAIR SOFTLY UNTIL I FALL ASLEEP. IN THE MORNING, AS WE WERE HAVING BREAKFAST HE ASKED ME HOW I WAS FEELING AND STATED THAT IT WAS TIME FOR ME TO START TO SEE A THERAPIST, I ASK HIM IF HE COULD COME WITH ME AND HE SAID THAT OF COURSE HE WILL BE THERE BY MY SIDE ALL THE STEP OF THE WAY. HE ALSO ASSURE THAT HE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO AGREE IN EVERYTHING I WANTED IMPLYING THROWING UP, BUT HE WILL GIVE ME TOUGH LOVE IF THAT IS NECESSARY FOR ME TO OVERCOME MY EATING DISORDER. I THINK THAT HE HAS DONE YESTERDAY BY NOT LETTING ME APPROACH THE BATHROOM AND REDIRECT ME TO OUR BED.
I LIKE TO HAVE MY HUSBAND AWARE THAT I SUFFER FROM BULIMIA, BECAUSE HE IS A GREAT DEAL OF HELP AS IS, I WILL START SEEING A THERAPIST AS SOON AS NEXT WEEK AND HE WILL COME TO EVERY SESSION WITH ME TO SUPPORT ME ALL THE WAY, BUT I AM SCARE ABOUT THAT TOUGH LOVE.
THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME EXPRESS MY THROUGHTS.
A BULIMIC COP’S WIFE
I just finished reading the stories regarding bulimia, anorexia and binge eating. For years I went through this torment and it has destroyed many relationships. Well one could say that I allowed it to. Now at 55 I am at my heaviest and so depressed I rarely leave the house. Each and every time I have lost a vast amount of weight I vowed I would never go back but such a failure that I am it always comes back and with a vengence. I swear this last time when I began this weight gain I honestly felt as if I were possesed. It was a complete night mare.
I do have willpower{but lost it}but do not seem to care any more and really do not feel like living this empty life. The pain ,the shame ,the lonliness is becoming unbearable .
I do not understand it all but my life is non existent,with no friends and no outside interests what so ever .I do not know what to do any more.
I’m also bulimic (14 years now) and leading a miserable life. My relationship with ny family is inevitably chaotic. I tried various forms of therapy, hospitalization etc. I feel resentful and angry whenever anyone tries to stop me from purging or makes the slightest comment or gesture about my eating. No job, no friends, a failing marriage, I binge like crazy not knowing how to stop. I feel ashamed, unhappy, worthless and the rest you probably know. I’m scared and need help, where I live eating disorders are not popular and treatment facilities are very limited plse help . I’m totally lost
I know how it is for all of you although I could not imagine 14 years and I was very young at the time(13) honestly I don’t know how I got over it mine lasted 4 years at worst weighing 78pounds at 5′6 I really think when I came back to school after the summer it started and people constantly harassed me I started to worry more about what they thought than what I thought(wich is what mainly got me into this mess in the first place) but it took me years to slowly ween off it to let loose I went through periods of binging making myself think this is it this is your last big meal till you start over Id do it once a day like every other week but I realized everytime I had that thought thats what made me over eat to begin with. My life didnt get better I didnt take self help classes or anything like that(I did do hospitalization counseling books ect. early on but that didn’t help) just slowly I focused on other stuff in my life good or bad set new goals like trying to fit in or go out my focus became more so that than food to this day Id say the past 3 years Ive been semi cured it will always be with me and ill always think about it when I’m unhappy with myself or relationships but I realize now more than ever it takes more will power to be anorexic than not to be. Once I got in the habit of not telling myself I had to binge now or Id never eat what I want because it would make me fat its hard but slowly I had to let that feeling go and put my focus into something else weather its painting or your marriage or whatever the case may be I guess thats what I would recommend to get out of it if your isolated in most cases people are find something you enjoy doing in the house or on the internet thats not related to food or body image It will not be easy I can tell you that much and I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa meaning it came from other deeper issues than just simply thinking I was fat maybe it gave me something to focus on rather than the reality of my life but I cant say my situation got any better not relating to the eating disorder its self but life in general I went through alot as a teen including dieing of alcohol poisoning for several minutes trying drugs and watching my mother try to kill herself and I guess in that situation you either go one of two ways your eating disorder becomes worse because of whats happening or you focus more on whats happening of course it will still be there for a time but hopefully not the most dominant aspect of your life hopefully this will help Ive gone through it all trust me from weighing myself everyday to trying bulimia because I lost my willpower to not eat 700 freakin calories a day all I can say is find a distraction find something that means more to you than this maybe a couple things and stick with them change up your daily routine if you have one that includes uhealthy practices do something new in place of it each day so you will slowly forget. Take into consideration of what those who care about you have to say (even if you dont want to hear it) and most important in the end as hard as it is to give this up or whatever may be causing it try and realize whats its doing to your life and that you are only hurting yourself!!!
I’ve been a bulemic since my early teens. All this media image of what beauty is damages a person’s self-esteem, especially if one is vulnerable because of stressful events and life experiences. At first I would vomit every thing I would eat. I would feel an urge to eat something, like a pastry from the pastry shop I worked, and I would end eating three or four and then stoping at a public restroom on my way home to vomit.I did manage to keep this under my control and not let any one know. i’ve been married for 20 years now and i don’t think my husband ever knew about my disorder. I’ve been ‘clean’ for more than 5 years now, because I decided that I needed and wanted to control this monster, or it was going to bury me, psysical and emotional. I think that ‘once a bulemic’ you will always be at risk of having a relapse, unless you keep focused on controlling your thoughts. This has worked for me, and like the person who wrote the story about having fully recovered from her ED, I do believe it’s possible, just accept yourslef and forgive yourself whenever you overindulge. I’ve managed to reach an acceptable weight for myself, and if for some reason I over eat, I don’t let my thoughts provoke in me an automatic reaction of having to vomit…tomorrow I’ll be fine, it’s not the end of the world. You can do it, you can control your mind and actions, just believe in yourself and develop self-acceptance.
An EATING disorder? Just wait until you find yourself being Diabetic, have Hypothyrodism, AND Gastroparesis, an incurable disease of the stomach; and you find there’s so little food you CAN eat that doesn’t turn to starchy sugars, OR that your stomach will digest and pass through your intestines, OR that won’t aggravate your sluggish thyroid, QUITE A COMBINATION THAT LEAVES VERY LITTLE THAT YOU ACTUALLY CAN EAT, ALL which causes major vitamin deficienceies and tremendous bone loss; THEN whine about an eating disorder! Good Lord!!! An eating disorder! You bet it’s mental!! You have no concept of what a REAL eating disorder is like!!!
Sorry…… I just couldn’t help myself! Sorry again, didn’t check my spelling…. Deficienceies = deficencies.
Mental illness is as real as physical illness. And drawing comparisons of peoples’ suffering is the most ignorant and worthless thing you can do.
Anne, you should not display your ignorance so boldly, your bitterness has no place here. suffering is a personal experience, but it is still suffering, you can make no legitimate comparisons. I have been bulimic for about six years, and recently this painful mental condition has manifested itself in some really awful physical ways. After years of daily cycles of binging on sugary carbs and then barfing it all up, I developed Irritable Bowel (IBS) syndrome, a year after this diagnosis, I still suffer from IBS and have now developed two other gastro/intestinal conditions, the first was candidiasis, and I now have stomach ulcers. With all of these problems combined, my diet is very limited, I now have to consider everyday foods as poison. The urge to binge now has to be weighed up against my potential for withstanding the physical pain of the after effects. I no longer have the option to eat whatever I want, I ruined my digestive system. I Take full responsibility for it, and am not bitter about it. I just hope that i can help other women out there before they befall the same fate.
God Bless you all. After almost 25 years of suffering with an eating disorder, I am finally free for the past 4 months. Remember that you are as strong as you BELIEVE you are. You can do what you BELIEVE you can. You become what you BELIEVE. Good luck to all of you, there is hope
To Anne: I realize what your going through may seem like something terrible and you could look at people with an eating disorder and be disgusted because you are not fully aware of what its like to be in this state of mind and you possibly believe that people choose to bring this curse upon them selves and let it ruin their life just know when your in a certain state of mind with an eating disorder it becomes a disease that you can not control its not a option to wake up the next day and tell yourself oh I was just doing that for the heck of it I think ill go back to normal eating habits now, not at all weather you want to realize it or not its just as stress full if not more so we don’t choose what to eat based on an internal problem its completely a mental struggle with your self everyday as well as the huge impact it has on your health and body in the long run. So I’m sorry that you are going through what you are that doesn’t sound pleasant in the least but its not your right to judge and mock people on a subject that you haven’t had any personal experience with yourself so Im not going to call you ignorant even if it was my first thought after reading your comment I would go more along the lines of bitter and uninformed but befor you place judgement on anothers situation realize you cannot fully know what its like until you have been there yourself.
This is a mental state, so just like anything else learn to see it as a temporary phase and tackle it day by day. I was admitted into hospital weighing 46kg for a 29 year old lady it was way too tiny. I was forced to eat and I quickly gained the weight back till I was 52kg, and life has been like living in hell I watched myself eat less and less, excercise less cause I got to the point where I was done with it. Now infact today I decided that enough is enough , no more vomiting. Just learning to eat right, exercise and be at peace with it. And find a better way of getting the Joy back in my life
I started to binge and purge when I was 14. By the time I was 18 I was binging and purging all the time followed by three day fasts.Before I turned 19 I met my fiance and been with him for 12 years. I am not saying that he healed me but If I had gone back home I would have continued my obsessive compulsive ways. Today if I feel like eating a bowl of icecream I don’t think about how much I just ate or all that is related. I will be honest and say that in the 10 years of my recovery I have relapse 4 times. I am 30 years old. I was hospitalized and saw girls and guys that were far worse off than I was. Today even though I am recoverd I have many physical problems. My teeth are all decayed and I can’t have kids. All because I wanted more than anything just to be thin. It isn’t worth it. I am free of my binding ED.
Dear Dena,
There is hope. I think that for all the people out there with an eating disorder that one day it just clicks. You hear this voice that says YOU MUST STOP! I know for sure that is what happened to me. You can stop. You will stop. You have to stop.
No one wants to see you hurt yourself. That is why they make the comments and try to stop you. Your marriage is dying because your husband is slowly watching you kill yourself and he doesn’t know what to do. He loves you. You entire family does too. You just have to stop to beable to see more clearly.
When the disease has it’s full control over you all you see is your body and food. Not just food but controlling it. How you eat it, when you eat it, how much, how little, none at all, or just a little taste. All of this controlling food because we feel as if we can’t control anything else but this one area of our lives. Body and food. I have faith that you will get better, all of you reading this.
I have been Bulimic since I was 11 and I am now 16. It is horrible and all I want is help ..I look at food and I start to cry just thinking about gaining any more weight. I can’t deal with it anymore.
Thank you for sharing. I`m happy to hear your stories. I`ve anorexic for two years,after quiting that I became boulimic 10years. Now mostly overeating. I absolutely agree that `deciding` not to count calories, thinking about food and weight all the time, is doing it. Now I can accept my body more for looking the way it does not as slim as I think it would be. I don`t mind it. It doesn`t effect me that much – emotionally – anymore. When I became aware what the consequences where, losing friends, not really having a lot of other knowledge besides of food and weight, not having a lot of skills, problems relating to people, depression,… it helps to make a choice between losing more than I already did or creating and investing in the live I really want and start a new episode. Which is a learning process. Capturing your thoughts, that became habbits, became personality.
Thank for sharing it gave me confidance my new I`am doing are the right things.
Anne of Port Charlotte, you are an ignorant person.
And Natalie: do not take “full responsibility” for it!!!
What we have is a MENTAL DISEASE!!
Not one of us woke up and said: “I think I would like to throw away my teenage years, possibly any relationship that I have, I want to be miserable and depressed…and why not throw away normal eating habits, bring on an obsession…look I know, just give me a darn eating disorder, that ought to do it!!”
At least your condition isn’t ingrained in your head.
There is no doubt I would rather have a physical disability or cancer over this insidious disease.
I would not wish it upon my worst enemy.
I am currently going through therapy in the hope of one day recovering, after 6 long years of torture.
I pray for all of you who have to suffer this.
I had a binge eating disorder when I was 14 and the one thing that got me out of the obsession was just giving in to my temptations. A quote from Oscar Wilde: “The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” I read this in the book Dorian Gray a few weeks ago and it gave me a surge of emotions because this is what saved me.
As you have already mentioned, people with eating disorders constantly think about their food and it is their priority in life. As for me, I would always either think about the previous binge I had and be filled with guilt or just be filled with hopelessness that I was never going to get out of this cycle. Once I got massive cravings and started on a binge, I would say this would be my last one and I’ll just eat a lot because I won’t do it again, but it never got better.
Then I started making myself eat all the junk foods and filled myself up everyday. I wouldn’t feel guilty about it. I mean, I was the one choosing to eat a lot. Before I let the cravings build up and then give in to it, so it was me giving into it, not choosing to do it. With giving in to it, I gained a few pounds, but the hopelessness disappeared, and the cycle stopped.
To people who read this comment, everything in this article above works. You have to give in to it if you want to overcome it. Lose all feelings of guilt and obsession.
Hi, everyone..
To Maya, kudos to you for finally conquering your disease and much love and blessings to you for sharing with everyone how you arrived at your eppifany.
To Anne, I’m sorry that you are suffering so, but coming here and comparing apples to oranges isn’t the way to go. Maya’s post clearly talked about eating disorders, NOT digestive, thyroid or autoimmune diseases. Regardless of the type of disease, everyone here is suffering, and you’ve no right to negate the experiences of anyone else because they fail to match your own.
As for me, I’m 44, and have suffered with disordered eating since I was 15, and had bulimia since about 17. Though bulimia has always been more dominant, I’ve also struggled “back and forth” with anorexia and binge-eating. In fact, once I went over 5 years without purging (although it did nothing to “cure” the binging), but then went back to purging unexpectedly in November of last year. I have no friends or social life (mainly because I suffer from social anxiety and depression), and I feel like there’s this constant monkey on my back. I’ve tried the intuitive eating “thing” (what I believe Maya has related), but it only works for so long because I can’t mentally get out of the way. I am not satisfied to just accept myself the way I am, and I use food to cope with my feelings. These two things constantly impede my progress. I think if I could just wake up one day and be happy with who I am and not use food to distract from painful emotions, I would have a chance at eating normally. So that is my advice to anyone suffering; we must find a way to accept who we are and express our feelings in a positive way. I think that would be a huge step in our recovery.
To the bulimic wife of a cop, you are lucky to have such an understanding husband. I only wish that I could find/have someone like that to help me towards recovery, too. My prayer is that each and every one of you will find your own Prince or Princess (whether friend or lover) to help you find your way.
Much love and peace to you all.
Jo
I currently have a binge eating disorder and it is making me depressed and miserable. I hate binging, like i will eat over 2000 calories in once sitting for no reason and i feel so uncomfortably full. I really don’t know what to do anymore, i need help. I am only 15 years old and i don’t want to be like this forever. I am gaining weight everyday because of my binging. I am not overweight yet but i am definatly getting there! I constantly have to eat alone and am isolating myself and then i always fight with my mom over my binging. I never smile anymore, and it kills my mom to see me unhappy. I refuse to wear anything tight to school because i don’t want people noticing my weight gain. Therefore i dress ugly everyday, because that’s how i feel. I can’t take this anymore, i feel like dying because of this disorder, please help me?
Hi. I read through your stories and found myself in the same place. I have Bulemia now for 20 years. Undetected and still feel I need to do it. My body seemed to addapt. if I stop doiing it, my weight it shooting up and I am controlling my food intake. It just starts over again. My teeth have decayed quite badly already, and i was in a major accident over a year ago, and it took almost a year for my bones to heal. The doctors did not know why but I knew why…I recently started to see a doctor, but it is easy to stop, but how do you keep the weight down? I am tired of trying…
Just read each of your comments and stories. I am 49 years old, married 29 years, and have 5 children. I am so tired of being sick and tired. Just when I think I am doing better then something sets me off and I am back to letting food control me. I have suffered with eating disorders since I was 16 years old. Anorexia, then Bulimarexia, and then Bulimia. Bulimia has been ever-most present through the past 10 years or more. I don’t purge anymore and just suffer the consequences of being overweight. My family really doesn’t know the extent of my condition and, although I have told my husband, I don’t really believe he comprehends what I truly go through.
Depression usually is going on at the same time so a binge just brings me down further.
It is sad to think how long this has been a part of my life! I want to be free. I do know that God can give me that freedom. It is a step by step, day by day (sometimes hour by hour) process. I must give it to Him. I must find my strength in Him… there is no other way!
Trust that each of us who have written about our situation(s) will find that peace of mind. He is the answer.
To: Anne of Port Charlotte, Fl. Anne, your apologies are definitely not accepted from me. Your condition is much different. Your issues are no worse than any of the rest of ours, and however are not any better either. Either way, none of us have control over the issues. If we did, do you think any of us would choose to live this way? Why don’t you stop pittying yourself and asking for pitty from others, and simply do what you can and make the most out of your situation. There is no need to rant and rave and try to make your own issues seem so much worse than anybody elses. Or wait…is that all you can do to make yourself feel better? Maybe if you weren’t obese in the first place, you would never have developed diabetes and any of your other conditions. Here’s another point…there are hospitals and medications that can help treat your conditions, bulimia, anorexia and any other eating disorder, has no medication. Be thankful for what you do have, the positives in your life, and be thankful for the things you are able to eat…without it controlling your life!
“” Anne of Port Charlotte, Fl on Sep 13th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
An EATING disorder? Just wait until you find yourself being Diabetic, have Hypothyrodism, AND Gastroparesis, an incurable disease of the stomach; and you find there’s so little food you CAN eat that doesn’t turn to starchy sugars, OR that your stomach will digest and pass through your intestines, OR that won’t aggravate your sluggish thyroid, QUITE A COMBINATION THAT LEAVES VERY LITTLE THAT YOU ACTUALLY CAN EAT, ALL which causes major vitamin deficienceies and tremendous bone loss; THEN whine about an eating disorder! Good Lord!!! An eating disorder! You bet it’s mental!! You have no concept of what a REAL eating disorder is like!!! “”
Anne that is the most ignorant thing I have ever heard. I am 32 and have been diabetic for 18 years. There is no and I mean NO comparison to what they are going through. I apologize for the way I referred to the people with disorders. Diabetics have control over what we eat, when, and how much. If I want something extra I adjust my insulin. I have someone that I love very much who is going through bulimerexia. Our problem is a physical one theirs is something that they see and want to fix but aren’t able to. Theirs is not a matter of choice it’s something that they cannot just walk away from. So next time you open your mouth think before you speak if that’s possible.
Jesse