Apart from the water retention, your body also goes into survival mode. It figures it will not be getting an optimum amount of food and so stores fat and slows down its metabolism. The fact that bulemia didn't work was a great motivator for me! There are NO shortcuts. Healthy eating, moderate excersize (walking is great), that is the ONLY thing that works. Fact of life.

have u been eating chocolate or sweets or fries etc! cause some of that will already have been digested! im not bulimic but i spitt food out and that's why i stay around the same weight unless i start to starve! or if your not getting anything than your body starts to feed of what u have! if your bloated it could be air! and it's just a reaction of the constant purging! take carex

No matter how much of the food you throw up, 10 percent of the calories stay in your body.

basically, when you binge and purge you're body is holding on to much more than you think it does. so when you binge on 2000+ calories for example, you're body holds on to say, close to around 1200+. it sucks, but it's true. and also the fact that your metabolism is probably crawling at a slugs pace makes it that much easier to gain weight. hope that made sense!

Have you ever tried bingeing on health food?? Like carrots or brocclie, that is steamed? They bingeing on food that are good for you, maybe you wont have the urge to have to purge, if the food aren't high in calories.

I am a binge eater. And even if you binge on healthy food instead of unhealthy fat full food, bingeing is bingeing. There is something at the root of this disease that is causing this and that is the problem that needs to get worked on.

you're body is trying to compensate what you dont have. so whatever you do eat and your body actually retains, it stores as fat. you're body is reacting normally for being malnurished.
try to stop throwing up as much...yeah you'll gain wait at first. but you wont blow up like a balloon.
i was anerexic..and i used to throw up as well. i had alot of people that were health nuts, and worked in the medical area. and they all said the same thing.

so, the best thing...(your probably not goign to like hearing this) is to stop your "diet" and start eating like a normal person. as much as it makes you feel like a fat pig..it needs to be done. other wise you'll have more complications. like bone problems, heart problems,.etc..
take care

I agree with the "non binges". As an ex-anorexic who sometimes indulges in the 'toilet diet 'I have to tell you it just doesn't work. Especially if you actually binge. If you are eating fatty foods then the fat will stay down. I'm not saying stop eating - then you would get a whole new set of problems. What I am saying is you would be amazed how difficult it is to gain weight by eating. I think it's something like 300kcals exrta (to the 2000)to put on a pound a week whereas it is 0nly 50 less kcals to lose the same.And that's if you need to gain weight at all. The body needs between 1500 and 2000 to function (if you are a woman, because men need more) but when you cut back (or purge) the body clinges on to anyning it can get. If you are overweight a person shouldn't aim to lose more than half a pound a week. As you are not overweight stopping purging will keep you stomach flatter.

THANK YOU ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR REALLY HELPFUL REPLIES!!!
THEY ALL MAKE SO MUCH SENSE!!!

ALL MY LOVE
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You only get rid of the nutrients BUT not the Calories!!!
I'm always bigger when im binging and purging and less when im not!!! Crazy why we do it!!