fat, lying about being hungry, lies about eating, avoiding food, excessive exercising, and withdrawal from friends.
Consequences of Anorexia: slow heart rate and low blood pressure, reduction of bone density, muscle loss, dehydration, feeling of weakness, loss of hair, growth of hair called “lanugo”, which tries to keep the body warm.
Bingeing-
There are two things that can happen with Binge eating, people can binge and purge causing themselves to throw up making them lose weight and there is also binge eating where people eat amounts, but do not throw it up, which causes them to retain the weight causes them to become obese. Many times they say that when you are eating it you “can’t control your eating and you may feel unhappy about it afterwards”. I have heard stories where people binge eat and they say they love to eat, …show more content…
Many times on my “600 LBS Life” the people will disclose why they eat all of the food that they do. 98% of the time they were sexually abused as a kid and they use food as a comfort. They say that eating is the only thing that they control so they make their own decision on what they eat and how much. “Having an eating disorder isn't a sign of weakness or a character flaw. And it is not something you can overcome with just willpower. Many people struggle with eating disorders for a long time. Some people try to keep it a secret or deny that they have a problem.”
Weight is a sensitive subject in general, but when you talk about it with someone that has an eating disorder, it becomes a whole new level. It is not something people chose to do. In the beginning it is a decision, but it turns into something that becomes uncontrollable. Once you start starving yourself and throw up after every meals that is not something you can just decide one day you want to stop. You have to have help and you have to deal with the consequences.
Consequences of Anorexia: slow heart rate and low blood pressure, reduction of bone density, muscle loss, dehydration, feeling of weakness, loss of hair, growth of hair called “lanugo”, which tries to keep the body warm.
Bingeing-
There are two things that can happen with Binge eating, people can binge and purge causing themselves to throw up making them lose weight and there is also binge eating where people eat amounts, but do not throw it up, which causes them to retain the weight causes them to become obese. Many times they say that when you are eating it you “can’t control your eating and you may feel unhappy about it afterwards”. I have heard stories where people binge eat and they say they love to eat, …show more content…
Many times on my “600 LBS Life” the people will disclose why they eat all of the food that they do. 98% of the time they were sexually abused as a kid and they use food as a comfort. They say that eating is the only thing that they control so they make their own decision on what they eat and how much. “Having an eating disorder isn't a sign of weakness or a character flaw. And it is not something you can overcome with just willpower. Many people struggle with eating disorders for a long time. Some people try to keep it a secret or deny that they have a problem.”
Weight is a sensitive subject in general, but when you talk about it with someone that has an eating disorder, it becomes a whole new level. It is not something people chose to do. In the beginning it is a decision, but it turns into something that becomes uncontrollable. Once you start starving yourself and throw up after every meals that is not something you can just decide one day you want to stop. You have to have help and you have to deal with the consequences.