Making yourself throw up brings up stomach acids into your throat and mouth. After doing this several times, yes it can cause damage to your esophogus. By making yourself throw up you also have a tiny flap, not sure what its called, this can sometimes flip the wrong way and you can literally choke to death. Not trying to scare you, yes maybe I am, but it sure stopped me from "loosing a quick pound" when I was in my twentys.... Its not healthy, if you're gonna blow chunks back up why eat it in the first place??????????????

Well, so you can enjoy the food and not suffer from extra calories. I know you don't get rid of everything you eat, and I don't use laxatives or any other meds beacuse firstly, I've learned they don't really help, and secondly, I still live under my parent's roof (being 15 on May 23) and have no connection to them. But the thing is, I don't throw up a lot. It's just periodically. When I feel like it. It's nothing dramatic. I'm not going to all of the sudden snap into some "I'M TOO FAT!" mindset.

You are only 15 years old, the last thing you need to worry about is throwing up every so often just to maintain weight...am I getting the pic now? You got all defensive wiht me on hte last post, and I was only trying to give Motherly advise. Its what I would tell my own daughter. I am sorry you and folks are not close. Just choose a healtheir eating lifestyle, then you won't have to throw up at all. Fruits, veges that you like... if you are active and eat correct you would not feel guilty and feel the need to puke. I thought I could get away with doing what oyu are doing, but it got out of hand and I was blowing chunks almost every time I ate...that was years ago....and not laxatives and colon cleansings are not in my lifestyle either. Lots of water! Keeps me hydrated, full and flushes the system out. Just trying to respond to your post, as I saw no one else had....

Aw! You made me feel horrible! I wasn't trying to make it sound defensive. I'm so sorry. Typing is so hard since you end up sounding angry or mean when you're actually joking or mearly responding. I'm truly sorry. I just want to let someone know the details situation so I can get info. Thanks a bunch. I just argh, wish you could lose your goal amount of lb. in one day. Yeah, I weigh 146. I am 5'6 annnnd I'm lucky not to look chunky.

Hi Sweetie, you did nto hurt my feelings, I don't get my feelings hurt anymore! I just get online everynight and ask God to show me someone who I feel I can help/ Guess its called empty nest syndrone! 146 pounds is not a bad weight. I am 5'5'' and i weight 142, and hit 50 this year! I maintain by drinking lots of water. I changed my eating habits years ago cause I was a size 14-16 in high school and the class fatty.....I love school reunions now, they don't even know me! I have maintained a size 10 since my daughter was born 23 years ago. Was reallt hard, cause I love to eat..all hte wrong stuff too! But I usually eat healthy and have little bites of what I crave... I want you to listen to this one thing, if you never listen to any othe advice...it took me a very long time to learn this and wish I had when I was 15......you choose in this life how things people say will effect you. You can choose to let it hurt you...or you can choose to let it go and not be bothered......that is your choice. I am alwasy here sweetie if you need me!

hi the thing is what may start of as not much will most probably develope into a much bigger problem.
I was a bit similar to you about a couple years ago. i didnt binge but sometimes made myself sick after meals through feeling bad about what i was eating. On one occasion i had brought blood up which really scared me. luckily for me it kinda resolved itself and i hardly ever vomit any more. i never had any help do deal with my prob but i did later admit to my mum i had made myself sick on occasions. But its very hard to talk to someone about something which they probably wouldnt understand.
But you have to ask yourself why your doing this and seek a solution to the problem. after all just posting on here is a positive start as you know its not normal behaviour to do what you do.
i may rarely vomit anymore anymore but i feel i have alot of feelings etc trapped in my head as i have never been able to open up to anyone about it all. i guess its something that never leaves issues and parts of your life but its just learning how to deal with it and admitting you got a prob. the hardest part is asking for help so try knocking your prob on the head before it progresses. best of luck to you

I started out exactly like you & I would advise you to be very careful. I used to only throw up just a little here or there if I thought I'd had too much. Eventually that leads to eating a little bit extra because you know you can throw it up and before you know it you'll just be eating something because you know you can get rid of it. All I can say is you sound like you have the control at the moment and I'd urge you to stop while you still do... if I had've stopped when I was in that stage I would've saved myself 4 years of hell. I'm not meaning to be melodramatic, I just hope you can avoid what I went through.

i dont think theres any temporary type of eating disorder. once its there its always there its just learning how to deal with it and hold it at bay so try and stop it now before it develops into alot more.

thats what you think at the start.
its temporary. i can stop. i can stop if i want but i dont want to so i wont.

who thinks to themselves: yes, i am going to become addicted to purging and in three years i wont be able to go to university because ill spend all my money on food to purge. yes, i wont go out with my friends to their birthday parties because im going to stay home and purge.


i certainly didnt. and now im a recovering binge purge anorexic, i dont go to school and my last few years.. the memories mainly involve how i wasnt going out, how i was hating myself, and how i swore i wouldnt throw up tomorrow.

get help baby. your doing this for a reason. normal people do not just think.... hey.... im going to throw up now. not that your not normal.... but there has to be issues there to make you feel the need to throw up / lose weight.
good luck. x

I've been in the same situation as you, so all the advice I can give you now is to get out while you still can. I know thats basically what all the other posts say, but theres not much else t say.

I also wanted to say that Fairy Godmothers post about the flappy thing at the back of your throat really terrrified me. I never knew that could happen, and i dont think I could bring myself to purge again. So thanks to Fairy Godmother and her wonderful knowledge of oesophaguses.