Bulimia

worry more and more about your weight

binge eat

make yourself vomit and/or use laxatives or other ways to get rid of calories

feel tired

feel guilty

stay a normal weight, in spite of your efforts to diet.

You raid the fridge or go out and buy lots of fattening foods that you would normally avoid.

You then eat it all, quickly, usually in secret.

You might get through packets of biscuits, several boxes of chocolates and a number of cakes in just a couple of hours.

You may even take someone else’s food, or shoplift, to satisfy the urge to binge.

Binges may begin as a planned meal, but because you have been restricting what you eat, you find that a normal meal doesn't satisfy you so that you can't stop eating.

Afterwards you feel stuffed and bloated – and probably guilty and depressed. You try to get rid of the food you have eaten by making yourself sick, or by purging with laxatives. It is very uncomfortable and tiring, but you find yourself trapped in a routine of binge eating, and vomiting and/or purging.