The NEW Bulimia

[que90nek]

With all these new fangled herbs and extracts and drugs and stuff and surgeries that you can have and take....to lose weight....

what makes this different than bulimia?

This question is not reflective of anybody but the man in the mirror...i recently started taking some carb blockers, fat blockers, yada yada.....

where is my control? instead i am allowed to eat...whatever.....but the drugs will purge me.

what makes me any diff than your average bulimic?

[Tastey]

I don't see any difference except it comes in a new form.

I used to take fat blockers. Chitotrim. They do basically the same thing as a laxative. You eat it, the drug purges it.

Many bulimics use laxatives as a form of purging.

My neice was considering the gastric bypass surgery. She was told that it will shrink her stomach to the size of an egg and all she can eat will be drink supplements and VERY VERY little food. A friend who had it eat 1 chicken McNugget for dinner.

I told my neice that it seemed to me to be a waste of time doing the stapling. If you have the WILLPOWER to eat just one McNugget then do it. PRETEND you had the surgery.

I was being facetious, however that's why the surgery kills so many is that they lack the willpower to go along with the surgery and they overeat causing serious illnesses and death.

[belleza]

It's just dressed up, but it is really the same.

I have tried to get my health provider to approve the surgery for me but have been denied 2 times.

So now I walk 6 miles, 5x a week and watch what I eat. It is not coming off very fast but it's going. Overeating is not about willpower. It is no different than drugs or drinking. You have to dig deep to understand it.

My mother always rewarded me with food. She still does it to this day. I just have to watch for it and ask myself why I am eating.

[Tastey]

Originally posted by justagirl
So now I walk 6 miles, 5x a week and watch what I eat. It is not coming off very fast but it's going. Overeating is not about willpower. It is no different than drugs or drinking. You have to dig deep to understand it.

My mother always rewarded me with food. She still does it to this day. I just have to watch for it and ask myself why I am eating.

I know that food addiction is real. I have it. But I also believe that it takes a certain amount of willpower on my part to overcome it.

The problem with food vs alcohol or drugs is that you can't just STOP eating. You have to eat in order to live. However you have to find a system of eating that does not feed into your addiction.

I eat for comfort.
I eat out of boredom.
I eat out cus other people are eating.
Hell I'm eating right now. lol :p

I know all these things so it's my own willpower that doesn't STOP me from doing those things.

[Andre98]

Originally posted by Tastey
My neice was considering the gastric bypass surgery. She was told that it will shrink her stomach to the size of an egg and all she can eat will be drink supplements and VERY VERY little food. A friend who had it eat 1 chicken McNugget for dinner.

I told my neice that it seemed to me to be a waste of time doing the stapling. If you have the WILLPOWER to eat just one McNugget then do it. PRETEND you had the surgery.

I was being facetious, however that's why the surgery kills so many is that they lack the willpower to go along with the surgery and they overeat causing serious illnesses and death.
Sorry for editing your post T, just wanted to comment on this part. I wish it was that easy....to just eat what one would eat IF they had the surgery. I guess it is a sign that we have given up on our own ability to control our weight. The surgery was recommended to my wife, with the emphasis on rapid weight loss. I am not crazy about it ( I seem to remember just posting about this....) she just had a huge incision heal from the fibroids removal.... but I'm afraid that will seem like I'm being a saboteur, and the pro-surgery pundits tell you to not let anyone else foil your plans.

[HulaSista]

interesting thread. never thought of things from this angle. my girlfriends take these fat blocker pills and was telling me about what her body goes through and i'm like :blah:

i am to scary of weight loss medicines... i think i've gone all these years and let the bad affects scare me. i am also afraid to become obsessed with it or addicted to it. an addictive nature, i have.