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Become a Vegan!! Poop like champ !!!

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Well I've had b/p for about 10 years now and if I was not puking it up I want to poo it out. I decided to become a Vegan after reading " Skinny Bitch". It a really great book, to help you understand why eating Vegan really helps everything. As you all know pooping becomes a HUGE priority, when you have an ED. When you bringe and pruge and just don't eat... your pooping becomes on- exsistant or VERY infrequent. When you cut out dairy and meat , and try to cut back on sugar. You start pooping like clockwork. everymoring and sometimes 2-3 a day :)

You can eat at "normal times" with the rest of your friends and not feel that you have to pruge cuz you will definitely poop it out the next day. All the bloating goes away and you feel great. Whenever I have a Vegan meal I don;t pruge cause I know it's healthy for my body and I'll get ride of it naturally. And if you start drinking a lot of water you'll poop like a champ!!! It's help me REALLY crub how bad it can be :) Read that book.... it's GREAT !!!
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Changing your eating habits isn't going to change an eating disorder, or get rid of it. Remember, it's not just about food- it's a mental illness.
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And, I'll add, I still have my eating disorder, despite the fact that I've been vegetarian for 6 years and was vegan for about a year before I went into treatment this spring.
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I never said it was a CURE. It may NOT have helped you,(and I'm sorry for you) but it's helped me A LOT and it might help others, so please don't discourage others from trying something that might help them b/p LESS. Isn't that the point of this place... to give people ideas that have worked for them? It important to focus on the positive.
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I suppose I wasn't very positive in my responses, but I'm just a realist.

Maybe it will work for some, but bingeing and purging usually doesn't have to do with the food you eat. When I was vegan, I would binge and purge on veggie burgers and soy ice cream- vegan, but I was still bingeing/purging, you know? It's the mental issues that factor in.

Anyway, I'm not trying to take away hope. I apologise for that if it seems like it. I'm glad you have posted your idea, and I hope it works for others as well.
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It kind of sounds like an extention of the bulimia, like purging passively. I'm sorry if you feel I'm getting at you, but I don't think it sounds like a great idea,it just feels like ED in a different guise.
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when I was in the horrid parts of my ed, I decided to be vegan and it doesnt help if you have an ed. I know people who are vegan and are healthy people, but an ed person? Im not so sure! I went back to being a vegatarian! Try that out before vegan, your just setting yourself up!
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Pleeease don't think of it like that way ...part of the reason we think we're fat is the fact that we're not eating right. And by starving or puking, all we are doing is screwing up out digestive system. B/P ing makes it so we don;t end up going "normally" which directly effects our feeling of FAT and BLOATED. When you eat Vegan, food goes through you naturally. Which in turn makes you feel better and healthier. and it helps to NOT trigger the feelings of being too fat. I weight 90 lbs and I'm 5'2" and I can have 3 very healthy sized portions of vegan meals all week, and I still weight the same at the end of the week. WHen you eat healthy like that, you're body only holds on to the good stuff and gets ride of the bad. the only reason I'm taking about this is NOT to promote another way of purging... I'm telling you about this wonderful way to be able to eat,(really good food) and feel great and not get fat. It's really great and I wish you'd give it a go :)
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not everyone binges and purges, we do have restricters here on ds, also called anorexia. Do you vegan thing, no one is saying you cant, but its not good to do it you have ed.
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Actually, I thought I was fat when I was vegan too. I'm severely underweight and I am not vegan.

Love, eating disorders aren't about "eating properly." It's about learning to cope with triggers and stressors in your life with positive methods.
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Sorry for being a bit thick, but how does the vegan diet nutritionally, is there iron etc?
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Fane, you can find lots of programmes online that teach you how to be a healthy vegan.
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I was just a bit confused as the dietician told my daughter the other day not to, but I guess they are worried as she is only 14yrs
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Most 14-year-olds aren't very savvy when it comes to getting their own food and researching exactly what kind of effort it takes to eat as a healthy vegan. Typically, they end up eating junk food and thus, not really getting the nutrients they need. I would only think that a 14-year-old could get the proper nutrition from a vegan diet if his/her parents were long-time vegans as well.

However, for an adult that puts in a lot of time and effort, you can learn how to eat in a healthy manner as a vegan. What I was trying to explain to ssnnuugg was that eating disorders don't have to do with eating healthily or not; rather, it's about coping with problems in an unhealthy manner and using food as a drug.
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I don't think anybody is trying to pick on you. We are just trying to explain that ED is a mental disease and you have to work out your issues in therapy. It seems that you changed you diet to something that is considered healthy for a healthy person, but the reason you did it is to be able to eat and pretend to others to be healthy, while you are really worried about keeping your weight at an ED level. As far as it looks to me you are still purging.
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Hi Lapetitem, I think what they diestican saw was that anorexia was tricking us again, letting us believe that she would eat vegan, you know as I Mum I will try anything to get her to eat but it usually ends being an exhausting game with no progress. Fane
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