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 Feb 11 2009, 02:25 PM
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QUOTE (Laura Jane @ Jul 23 2004, 12:50 AM)  I'm compulsive and I'm obese. I've gained weight the past few months and the more I weigh, the less I move around which means....... more weight!!! :( I can totally relate. I was off work for a couple of days and ate everything I could get my hands on. It was awful. I never felt full. The more I crammed in my mouth, the more worthless I felt, so I just kept eating. I have had compulsive eating issues before, but I NEVER in my life ate like that. My doctor said Zoloft can cause people to binge like that, so she took me off that and put me on a low dose of Prozac (5mg for a week and 10mg each day after that) Has anyone had any success with such a low dose of Prozac? thanks
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Feb 19 2009, 12:15 PM
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I'm not sure what I am. I guess I am EDNOS as I have tendencies towards anorexia but not all the symptoms. I don't use lax/diuretics anymore so that is good but I desperately want to stop. My depression and SI seems to all be linked in together with my ED at the moment so not quite sure which to tackle first.
best wishes to everyone
glass girl
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Feb 19 2009, 02:20 PM
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QUOTE (I am Cat @ Feb 12 2005, 05:34 PM) <font color='#000F22'>It's called... EDNOS (Eating Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified). You have Disordered Eating, like so many people, and you're sending out an SOS... I hear you.  The question you have to ask yourself, R, is... Are you NOT eating because of your size? Or are you NOT eating because of emotional issues? You have to "get at" what makes you NOT eat. :( For me, it's both. I don't eat when I'm upset, when I look in the mirror, (even though what's IN the mirror and what I SEE in the mirror are two separate things)... I don't eat for a variety of reasons... flashbacks... certain smells, sounds, words, and colors can set me off. Have you pinpointed your "reasons" for not eating? It might be the start to getting to where you need to be. Which is "inside" the heart, soul, and mind of "R". For a friend of mine (whose name is unimportant), she EATS to soothe herself she says. She SAYS she eats when she is depressed. I says she eats to push others away. It's all about feeling badly about her body. When she eats, she gains weight... she feels badly about her body... she wears baggy clothes, she perceives others as NOT WANTING HER BODY, as a way of distancing herself from those who love her "in that way". Her husband... her lover... This is HER WAY of pushing them away without having to push them away. Do you see? They don't WANT her anymore, sexually. Therefore, letting HER off the hook because she doesn't have to maintain intimacy and put herself "out there" for them. She can remain 'inside' herself. Safe, in her own world. Untouched. Her heart, her soul. Her body. In this way... no one can hurt her... Except her. Because she feels so badly about herself. She's doing it TO herself.  It's painful to watch. But for her, it's painful to watch ME. So... there you go. What MAKES you eat "normally...." then STARVE yourself? THAT'S what you need to know, R. sending you only good thoughts... and of course, love and laughter, Cat oh... and in answer to your question... no. it's not purging. purging is through throwing up, or through excessive exercise. You are fasting... or starving yourself. You NEED 1200 calories a day JUST TO MAINTAIN a body in a comatose state... did you KNOW that? Just to support your organs. that's what you need. Think about that.</font> Cat, I feel like I am the friend you are talking about. You just described me EXACTLY. I dont mind having men in my life for sex, but when I think I am letting them in, I eat and start hating myself, then I run them away. Then, once i am alone again, I eat to make myself feel better.
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Apr 14 2009, 11:50 AM
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Yo Yo dieting. My weight fluctuates significantly depending on how depressed I am.
This post has been edited by PRT: May 5 2009, 12:35 PM
Reason for edit: Removing weight information
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May 10 2009, 10:10 PM
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For me it possibly is EDNOS. I have been overweight/obese all my life, even through childhood. I have characteristics of being anorexic, as I do not like to eat. I often hide my body behind baggy clothes, don't believe people when they say that I look lighter than I am, and if it weren't for my diabetes, could convince myself that I am not hungry ever. I have to remind myself to eat. When my sugars drop too low, I will have something small to eat, just to bring them back up. I have to eat something before bed to prevent my sugars from going too low when sleeping and for better absorbtion of one of my night meds. I often forget to eat until I feel the effects of the low sugars. Hugs ~ Angel 
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May 14 2009, 03:51 PM
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I chose Anorexia, just cause I didn't agree with the other choices. But I'm going to agree with angel on the part of "I'm so busy I forget to eat". But at the same time the meds I'm on have side effects of losing weight, and no appetite so that's not much help either. Before I was on my meds I was a picky eater and I ate very little but not enough to notice.
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Jul 20 2009, 07:10 AM
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I think I am bulimic.. tho I'm not so sure anymore.
at least I used to be bulimic.
Now my eating is.. I dunno. I eat very little, and try not to eat anything that makes me fat. and sometimes if I am alone at home and I feel very safe (so that no one can walk in on me) I may pinge and purge. but that happens very rarely nowadays.
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Jul 22 2009, 10:32 AM
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Bulimic over here - on and off since I was about 19, mainly on for the last 3 years. I'm hoping the new meds (mood stabilisers, starting next week) will help with that as well as everything else.
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Jul 24 2009, 07:06 PM
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I go through periods of compulsive eating, then feeling guilty about it, so I wont eat at all.
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Aug 7 2009, 12:38 PM
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why only delicious food makes you gain weight?!!! no fair... binge eater, hate mcdonalds bc I LOVE THAT FOOD!!!!!!!!!!! everyday I say it's last time.. I feel like drug addict, can't quit :(
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Oct 30 2009, 02:20 PM
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My main ED is anorexia. That's where I started, and it's always what I go back to when I relapse. I've been in recovery for nearly 10 years, but there are often ups and downs, and when I'm struggling, it's always with restriction/over exercise. When it goes on for too long, then the binging/purging also starts. I guess I was always technically referred to as anorexic-purging type. But don't we all have some sort of combination at some point?
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And colder and smaller
And older and lower
And I'm tired of being alone with myself
And I'm tired of being with anyone else
Yeah I'm tired...
Like I'm sick"
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Nov 15 2009, 03:20 PM
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I have had bulimia since I was 15 (I'm 22 now). I guess you could say yo-yo dieting too because I was underweight for a while (not enough to consider anorexic) and I've been overweight at times too. I tend to fluctuate a lot depending on my state of mind at the moment and what sort of thing I'm doing. It's rough. I try to not purge, but lately I've been pretty unsuccessful at it. It the past couple of years, it has taken a toll on my health. I've had some problem with my teeth and an ulcer at one point due to my ED and stress, my body chemistry is really bad with food too. But it sucks because at times I freak out about it and other times I just don't care.
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