Buy Walking VideosPostSecret: Bulimia
How many things have promised us that we’ll be thin, only to fail on the promise?
- Bulimia
- Meal Replacement Shakes
- Smoking
- Diet Pills
- Diets
What else would you add to the list? This secret from PostSecret hit home with me because I always felt ripped off that I had the bingeing but couldn’t purge. Somehow I felt if I could just purge, I wouldn’t be fat. The truth of the matter is, not even bulimia can keep up with some bingeing. I can eat more in a few minutes than I can work off on the treadmill all day. I don’t even think barfing and laxatives could keep up.
Learning how to nurture myself without food has been the best step toward healthy eating in a long time.
If you have been tempted by any of those things that promise to make you thin, just let them go. Have the courage to take an inner journey and find out what you need to do to take radically good care of yourself. Loving yourself isn’t a quick fix weight loss solution, but I truly think it’s the only one that works.
PostSecret‘s beneficiary is the National Hopeline Network. It is a 24-hour hotline (1 (800) SUICIDE) for anyone who is thinking about suicide or knows someone who is considering it.
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March 4th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
You’re absolutely right, Laura, about 3 things:
1) Bulimia doesn’t make people skinny. In fact, we’re more often normal or over-weight. And, that makes us feel even more miserable. We all tend to feel even more like failures cuz we consider ourselves “bad bulimics” if we go through all this hell and still can’t even be skinny.
2) Loving ourselves is not a quick fix. It takes a lot of time and work to learn how to do that and to prove to ourselves over and over again that we’re worth loving.
3) Learning to love and honor ourselves IS the only lasting way to recovery – from eating disorders, anxiety, depression, rage, hopelessness. It’s the only way.
WIth love and respect, Michelle Hope
March 5th, 2007 at 12:26 am
A good portion bulimics are overweight and obese.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
i have made myself throw up after eating its not funn but r u sure ill gain weight??