
Eating Disorders Support Group
Eating disorders are marked by an obsessive need to control the intake and/or purging of food. This community is dedicated to those struggling on the road to recovery. Join to discuss your experience with others and find support. Get advice, ask questions, and meet others who are going through similar struggles.

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i am in the "early stages" and awaiting treatment. Normally i can bindge and purge and continue as normal, however i have just experienced an occasiion where i have bindged and could not purge the food back at all. This has now made me get into a terrible state as i now feel i need to starve myself to prevent weight gain. Can you answer for me....How long does it take after a unsuccessfull bindge for your body to turn the food into weight gain and is there anything other than starving i can do to stop myself gaining weight?
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The initial weight change in your body after eating and NOT purging/laxative-using is going to mostly be from fluid gain and frankly...just leftover matter (poop). So you can't judge how much weight you've gained by this initial number.
Digestion: Food gets broken down into a mush in the stomach. The small intestine plucks out calories and nutrients while the liver excretes bile to digest the fat from your food and the pancreas excretes insulin to digest sugars (carbs). The waste get sent to the large intestine, and water from your food is re-absorbed into the body.
Leftover calories get stored in the muscle as reserves for when you need them. When you don't USE these calories (broken down into simple-simple sugars), then they are converted into fat, and stored in the muscles, liver, and fat tissue - and wait to be converted back into simple sugar (glycogen) for energy.
I'm not sure if that helps you out, but that's how your body deals with your food.
(I'm sorta proud 'cause I did that without any numbers. :P)
Take a step back, you CAN'T physically or mentally make yourself purge, I talked to my therapist about this once, look at it this way,...
When you have malnutrition, and your body is so hungry, and deprived, your mind overrides your body and MAKES you eat.
I know this has happened to a lot of girls I know, why not turn it into a good thing?
Maybe your heart is overriding your addiction and saying, "this is wrong, i don't want to do this anymore, please stop causing me pain".
if I had had a breakthrough like the one I think you just had, I would have slept well for the first night in a long time.
We are trying to RECOVER. You have to WANT to give yourself what you deserve, and you are a child of this world, someone out there LOVES YOU, someone out there thinks you were WORTH THE TIME TO CREATE.
Take a hint, your body doesn't want to hurt anymore.
Sorry to disregard your actual question, but I don't think you need that answer when your body is telling you something of THAT importance.
(Not trying to offend, but when you see the light, you need to run towards it, b/c when something like that happens, it's not terribly often)