Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:11:41 -0500 
From: Judi Mancuso <jm5p+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: I need HELP!!! (bingeing)
	<9786@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>

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>In article <ulrike.721993508@gmd.de> ulrike@gmd.de (Ulrike Bauer) writes:
>>...sometimes I plan binges, so I go and buy a lot of food to eat it 
>>at home and on the way home. Afterwards I vomit very often, as I'm very
>>afraid to get very huge. And I have put on weight 29 lbs. during the last 
>>3 years ( but since last year my weight is stable (with vomitting)). 
>>I weight 165 lbs. and I am 5'8'' tall. That is not so much, but I want to 
>>loose about 33 to 38 lbs. If I put myself on a diet, it will work longest 
>>for 3 to 5 days, and then I start binging again. 


I wish I could e-mail privately to Ulrike but it has bounced back to me
several times----but I feel that it is imperative that I respond.....

Ulrike--
You have an eating disorder that needs immediate MEDICAL attention.  My
dearest friend in the world is a bulimic/anorexic.  I lived with her for
4 years and never figured it out---even after watching incredibly
bizarre behavior.  Her dieting/purging/extreme exercising/starvation,
etc. were all butts of our own private jokes.  I would join her in
Saturday night eating fests (planned binging) when we were "dateless and
driveless".  The difference was that once the eating fest was over---I
went to bed---usually with a stomach ache.  She would either continue
consuming massive quanities of food for the next couple of hours or even
days then do one of several things (or all of them)--vomit, take large
doses of laxatives, exercise to the extreme, spend the next week
"cleansing" her system by drinking only water, etc.....    This woman
was not fat by any means---she was very, very pretty, had a wonderful
career ahead of her, very educated, sweet, dated very handsome,
successful men---she really did have it all.  
After I got married, she lived alone then took a new job that caused her
to transfer quite a bit.  She always lived in these amazing places--near
beaches, on the beach, in some quaint little New England town--so my
husband I would vacation with her a few days a year.  Her behavior was
exactly the same--and we would laugh.  Now that I think back, I do
recall that it was even more extreme in some ways.  Anyway, she ended up
moving out west and buying this spectacualar home right on the beach.
She always seemed to have this "charmed" life--in fact, I just loved to
tell stories about her travels and such.  So, you can imagine my horror
when I received this long distance call from a nurse in an emergency
room in California.  My friend had been rushed in by a stranger who
scooped her off the street---her life was hanging on by a thread.  Why
did they call me?  In her waistpack  (she was jogging at the time) was
an envelope with a card from me that she had just received that day--she
must have picked up her mail before taking her run.  Anyway, she had
been living on a diet of water, celery, and brown rice and laxatives for
about 2 weeks--getting ready for her "bikini".  She had been jogging for
probably 3 hours in about 100 degree weather and high humidity when she
took a massive heart attack.  The abuse  her body had taken caused this.
 Luckily she did not die---but there were about 5 months there that she
wished she had died that day.  She is still climbing out of this
maddening circle--I know she fights everyday--her heart attack was 6
years ago.  These disorders will kill you.  You need help.  Today.  Get
it.  Judi
From: brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Peter Brooks)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:04:11 GMT
Subject: Re: Coming out of the closet.
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