Then you're not comfortable with having that in your stomach. At first she only purged a couple times a month, so she did not worry about effects on her health, she said. Then it became a couple times a week, then daily, then maybe three times a day. Her weight never fluctuated much through the years, she said, despite her eating patterns. Brooks Morse, a staff psychologist at Student Counseling Service, said people with a history of dieting are more prone to developing an eating disorder.
Human bodies fight diets.
They tell us when we are hungry and need to eat, she said, and we should trust our bodies. Our body is a wonderful system. It works well for us if we treat it with respect. People who have eating disorders are generally perfectionists, have high expectations of themselves and feel a lack of control in their lives, Morse said. They may also be irritable and fatigued due to a lack of nutrients.