There are times when we go through a phase of difficulties in our lives and turn to eating to ease our loneliness or depression. We open the fridge door and grab a bite, we pass the bananas and grab some, we lie on the couch watching television and pick up a packet of chips or nuts to munch. Then, because we feel guilty about our actions, we try to purge, exercise or fast. This is when we should realize that if we are doing this, then we have an eating disorder that we need to deal with. Binging and purging take a toll on the body. Timely help can help you overcome the compulsion you feel to eat; as well as improve the relationship you have with food and cure your unstable emotional state as well.
Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder. There are many episodes of binge eating, followed by frantic exercising and dieting and binging to lose weight and stay slim. When you suffer from this disease, you are in a constant struggle between the need to eat and the need to stay slim. Even if you are not following your episodes of excessive eating with binging, but trying to exercise frantically or fasting or going on a crash diet, it also qualifies for bulimia. Continue reading
Adolescence can be a very stressful time when people begin gaining independence and discovering who they are. The teen years are when people establish new friendships and also when they find that their body has begun to develop. When a person enters puberty, it can be a very stressful, confusing and frightening period.