When you try to control, avoid, hide, or numb your feelings through dieting, you're taking a serious risk. The self-imposed emptiness feels like an achievement. These teens develop anorexia nervosa. Other teens snap at their hunger and binge. Guilty, they then throw up.
Vomiting brings relief.
These teens have tiptoed onto the dangerous path of bulimia nervosa. Teens with eating disorders seek control through dieting and, before long, the dieting controls them. Dieting, at best, doesn't work. At worst it can kill you. There are far more effective ways to start feeling good about yourself.