However, you will have to recognize that you will continue to have to be the one in charge of making corrective changes. You have asked some important and interesting questions and to start I will just help you to understand a little bit better what bulimia is and why you may be suffering from it. Bulimia is an eating disorder that is characterized by binging on large amounts of food often followed by guilt and remorse afterwards. This guilt leads the person to purging by either vomiting or the abusive use of laxatives. Bouts of binging are often interspersed with periods of starvation.
Excessive exercise is also part of the picture.
The bulimic person usually has a distorted body image, perceiving themselves to be fat, when in fact they are not. They are obsessed with food and their weight. Binging and purging are used by the person as a form of weight control to obtain or maintain their ideal body shape or image. There can be a multitude of factors. Amy, in particular, but it can be triggered by such things as 1.