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jasgall
jasgall
i'm sorry you guys, but i don't know where else to post this. as i said in one of my journal entries here, i feel safe here. i feel like i'm understood here. so i'm going to be honest.

on tuesday, we went to walmart to do errands, and i ended up buying two boxes of cookies. i finished one box this morning.

for the last few days, i have been not really "binging", but munching a lot off and on on cookies and candy. and then, i always feel horrid. i can't get away from the thought that maybe i should just throw up.

i know how dangerous that line of thought is. i know i should just forget about it and just suck it up and go back to overeaters anonymous. i should just put that thought out of my mind. but it keeps creeping back. it won't leave me alone!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Do not purge. Just read blue's dental thread on here. And that's just some of the damage purging does to you. Try to forgive yourself and do better tomorrow.
deleted_user
deleted_user
hey there i just wanted to say hey, and to say throwing up is not a good idea
so u had a box of cookies its ok
everyone has slips
maybe go for a walk x
deleted_user
deleted_user
Please read my thread. I'm "only" 30. This is ONLY ONE of the major consequences/damages that bulimia causes. I agree w/ both Karrin and loopy. Bulimia SUCKS. ED's SUCK! But pick yourself back up!!! You can do it.
tuxedomck
tuxedomck
jasgall,
You can fight this. Believe in yourself- because I and everyone else here surely believe in you! You can do this! Purging/restricting, whatever, none of it helps. It all just harms us in the long run.
My prayers and thoughts are with you. Be strong!!!!!
HUGS!
deleted_user
deleted_user
please try and be strong. purging isn't an answer. try to move on from today, and forgive yourself. you've not commited a crime, you've just had a little fall back. it's ok though, they make us stronger if we allow them too. i don't know much about binging and purging but the effects are not good, i know that much. please don't purge. thinking of you.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Hang in there! You can do this, and don't PANIC! I once got back from a long run....and ate a whole chocolate cake to myself. Suffered a massive stomach cramp after - and some horrible digestive side effects - but...I KEPT IT DOWN! So, don't panic. Sometimes our sweet tooth gets the best of us. Tomorrow is another day. Walk it off! Chin up, head high, push on :)
deleted_user
deleted_user
Ive so been there... after I binge I think, geez if I could just throw up... but I ALWAYS tell myself. i wont feel better, i dont want to go there.... please remember purging does not help...
peanutzz
peanutzz
Yes Yazzz thank you. Well said. My ED wasn't easily scared by the threat of dental problems, and was always in my brain with a monkey wrench. ED's job is to keep us sick. I just got sick and tired of being sick and tired. You aren't responsible for those thoughts, jasgail, only for what you do about them.