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next day's binge.
She spent her day think-
ing only about food and
how she'd get rid of it. This
started after a failed rela-
tionship. When her boy-
friend left her, bulimia
welcomed her.
"This is hard," she said.
"I've cut back on the exer-
cise, but I still need to ask
for help. But when I was
exercising, people were
jealous of me. I had a lot of
power. And boy, that was a
neat feeling. But what was
happening inside of me
wasn't so neat. It had to
end or I was in danger.
This is not a case of fooling
around with a diet. This is
a life-threatening problem.
I was lucky to learn that
early on. Not everybody
does." ❑
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condition ended only after
he overcame a different
sort of stigma. He said that
he worried that his friends
wouldn't consider him a
real man if they knew
about his bulimia. This,
after all, is a woman's
disease.
"It took me a while to get
real and to stop being so
ridiculous," he said. "But, I
still don't talk about it. It's
something in my past. It's
over with."
Susan could outrun you,
"our-aerobic" you, tread the
Stairmaster faster, swim
and dance. She could
because she did this seven
days a week, two hours
minimum per day. And all
on a diet of candy, pizza and
chips. The exercise, she
figured, was what she need-
ed to burn it all off until the
553-7111
There are several warn-
ing signs indicating the
development of anorexia
or bulimia within a per-
son.
According to the Na-
tional Anorexic Aid Socie-
ty of Columbus, Ohio,
anorexics experience an
abnormal weight loss of
25 percent or more with
no known medical illness.
There is a reduction in
food intake, denial of
hunger and decrease in
consumption of high car-
bohydrate and fatty foods.
This can be accompanied
by excessive exercise.
Anorexics experience an
intense fear of weight
gain and peculiar pat-
terns of handling food.
Women experience ab-
normal or the absence of
menstruation.
Bulimics attempt to
control weight by diet,
vomiting or laxative and
diuretic abuse. A
bulimic's eating pattern
may alternate between
binges and fasts. Most
bulimics are extremely
secretive about their
eating and purging
habits. Bulimics are
within a normal weight
range, though some might
be slightly underweight,
others overweight.
A bulimic goes through
depressive moods and self-
deprecating thoughts
following a binge.
Both bulimics and
anorexics have an ex-
cessive concern and
preoccupation with food
and weight control. Both
rely on excessive mea-
sures for this control, and
both are unusually
perfectionistic and have
unrealistically high self-
expectations.
An anorexic will deny a
problem and may pride
herself on her weight loss.
The anorexic turns away
Both anorexics
and bulimics are
unusually
perfectionistic
and have
unrealistically
high self-
expectations.
from food to cope and has
difficulty in accurately
assessing body size.
The bulimic recognizes
her abnormal eating pat-
terns, but often feels a
loss of control of eating.
The bulimic can be ex-
troverted and has little
difficulty with accurately
assessing body size.
Phil Jacobs