Please share an interesting fact about bulimia.

People: Myth: people who have eating disorders are skinny. Not necessarily true, as in bulimia, overeaters.

Love: Love self and eat! fruits, vegetables, or drink them as a way to fill up and still stay healthy.

When: When you feel bad, it's okay to cry, talk it out. Don't punish yourself with binge and purge.

Treatment: Treatment for bulimia involves psychological counseling and sometimes medicines such as antidepressants.

With: With the exposure to stomach acid, the enamel on teeth is destroyed resulting in major dental problems.

Most: Most bulimics don't purge after every meal.

Vomiting: Myth: vomiting will make you more attractive, accepted healthier & have a better life. All false!

Eating: Eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging. Discuss with your doctor!

Don't: Don't brush your teeth right away after vomiting. Rinse mouth well first or acid will destroy teeth.

Bulimia: Bulimia as a eating disorder also effects the dentition with excessive acid erosion of the enamel.

Develop: Develop a plan to learn proper coping skills to prevent future episodes.

Long: Long term, constantly throwing up destroys the enamel of the teeth because of the stomach acid.

Create: Create a cascade of enjoyable behaviors interrupting & hopefully distracting thought from behavior.

Binge: Binge eating often follows a period of consuming fewer calories during meals. Try restricting less.

All: It's a myth that all bulumics are heavy and all anorexics skinny.

Restrictive: Restrictive dieting is the most frequently reported precipitating event leading to bulimia.

Commit: Commit to sitting after eating for 20 minutes, share your desire to binge with friends, get support.

Bulimia: Bulimia is most often successfully treated when patients are committed to psychotherapy.

Key:Weight: People with bulimia usually maintain near-normal body weight.

Find: Find a support group, a great therapist, and a sponsor. Call someone before you purge.

ONLY: It's a myth that: only women suffer bulimia! some men are better able to hide their disorder.

Eating: Eating disorder specialists believe that the chance for recovery increases with early detection.

Begin: Begin yoga, meditation, and/or acupuncture to help heal your body from the inside out.

Bulimia: Bulimia can lead to low potassium and cardiac arrythmias or heart attacks.

Child: Myth: teen with bulimia will grow out of it. Fact: longer it is untreated, more difficult to treat.

STOP: Stop at any point! ask yourself what upset you today. Get help to address it another way!

Bulimia: Bulimia can cause low potassium and a heart attack.

If: If you vomit, rinse and brush your teeth right away to reduce erosion of your tooth enamel.

85-90%: 85-90% of bulimic patients are female.

Myth:: Myth: all bulimia patients are underweight. Fact: patients with bulimia can have a normal body size.

Receive: Receive nutritional advice and psychotherapy, especially cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt).

Overeaters: Overeaters anonymous helps bulimics and anorectics, as well as those who are binge eaters (oa.Org).

Always: Always be honest and tell your doctor what's going on.

The: The internal surface of teeth are much more affected than external surfacesin bulimic patients.

Bulimia: Bulimia is a binge and purge behavior pattern.

Eating: Eating disorders are often lifelong issue, get support from others battling the condition.

Bulimia: Bulimia may cause numerous serious and life threatening complications- heart problem, anxiety depres.

Bulimia: Bulimia only happens too young girls? No, boys and men can get it too.

Before: Before bingeing, think of how miserable you are going to feel afterwards.

Many: Many bulimics hear an eating disorders voice that is not dissociative and does not respond to meds.

Psychotherapy: Psychotherapy to work on self image, self esteem issues.

Every: Myth: every one with an eating disorder is underweight.

Do: Do talk openly with your provider about your problem. We can't help you if we don't know...

Pay: Pay attention to yourself. Be sensitive to your feelings. Understand why you are self-destructive.

Ignore: Regular aerobic exercise can help to replace bad habits or addiction like bulimia.

Ignore: Take extra care of your teeth until you are well. Use prescription strength fluoride.

Ignore: Seek help from bulimia centers. Need interaction with others whom have had or still have it.

Ignore: Wait 20 minutes to brush your teeth after vomiting to allow enamel to "harden up".

Ignore: Try to eliminate highly acidic foods to reduce loss of enamel on teeth.

Don't: Don't brush your teeth immediately after vomiting. That will spread the acid and decay your teeth.

Ignore: Look to make changes in routine in order to substitute binge eating with healthy activities.

Ignore: Practice self-acceptance. Avoid situation/trigger that causes anxiety, depression or substance abuse.

Ignore: Since puberty is starting earlier than in the past, the average age for bulimia onset is 9-12 years.

Ignore: Bulimia can lead to severe medical complications!

Ignore: Bulimia is a life threatening disorder characterized by cycles of binging and purging, Get Rx ASAP.

Ignore: Focus on what you want in your diet -healthy fats, healthy proteins and lots of green leafy vegetabl.