Any recovered bulimics? What stops you from relapsing?

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Need some support.. any tips?

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I’m still working really hard every day to stop. But i will often try to hang around my friends that know about my recovery during or after I eat, I know this might not work for everyone, but they usually do what they can to distract me or to keep me from going to the bathroom. For a while in the first month I was trying to recover, I would eat less than normal, AND PLS DONT TAKE THIS IN A BAD WAY I KNOW THAT IT IS NOT THE HEALTHIEST OPTION IN THE SLIGHTEST AND IT CAN HAVE VERY NEGATIVE EFFECTS FOR MOST PEOPLE AND I DONT NECESSARILY RECOMMEND THIS METHOD! But I would make my portions significantly smaller than they should be and then I slowly worked to normal eating habits. I found it helped me to be less persistent on throwing up because i know that i didn’t eat a ton, which, in my mind was better I guess. I also found ONE friend that I could always talk to when I was having a bad day and was anticipating a relapse. I wear lotion all the time on my hands to make it taste awful or I wear really nice makeup and have bright lipstick thats difficult to remove from your face, because I know by throwing up I will ruin all my hard work as well as get the lipstick all over my face and then have to deal with the hassle of getting it off and ruining my makeup MORE ! Weird, I know, but it’s SOMETHING. Don’t eat in isolation, try to ALWAYS be around people when you eat, eating alone just eliminates a reason NOT to do it, you want to GAIN reasons. Also if you need to go to the bathroom after, ask someone to go with you, it will decrease your ability to throw up, at least for me, knowing someone is there. Also, pls realize that relapses ARE GOING TO HAPPEN!! I can’t tell you how many people I know have been sent into a spiral after a relapse which only caused them to do it again and again and again bringing them back so far, because they were so disappointed in themselves for messing up. And yes while it SUCKS know that relapse is a normal part of recover and messing up is okay, as long as you are doing everything you can to stay better! Good luck hun, we are all in this together :)<3

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My dentist actually is the one that helped me stop. He didn’t know I was bulimic but he was showing me all the damage that I was doing to my teeth, he said “we usually only see this in patients with eating disorders”. He said if I continued that my teeth would start falling out. That just made me realize how much damage I was causing to my body.

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I had to become really aware of what I was doing. I forced myself to think about how bad it actually was for me.

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I'm still struggling to stop... ☹ it's really hard.

Any recovered bulimics? What stops you from relapsing?

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