Contents:
- Medical Video: My Eating Disorder.
- Why do bulimics vomit food that has been eaten?
- Then how do you stop vomiting food?
- 1. Find the right friend
- 2. Try adjusting the eating schedule
- 3. Make a list of foods
- 4. Try exercises to resist vomiting
- 5. Record the process as long as you want to change
Medical Video: My Eating Disorder.
Vomiting food after meals is a form of habit purging in people who have eating disorders, namely bulimia. Purging this can also be considered as a way of cleaning yourself. In addition to vomiting food, people with bulimia also use laxatives or diuretics and do fasting and excessive exercise to cleanse food that has been eaten from inside their body.
Why do bulimics vomit food that has been eaten?
Some people bulimia sometimes it only uses one way to "cleanse itself", it also does not rule out if they add and combine other ways to remove the food they have eaten. While the final goal to be achieved from purging this is to "cleanse" the body of calories consumed and prevent weight gain.
Then how do you stop vomiting food?
1. Find the right friend
The first thing you can do to stop spewing food is to find friends. With friends, ask him to support and help you quit this bad habit. A friend or friend who understands you can accompany you at important moments when you are recovering.
If it is difficult to find friends or friends to support yourself, contact a special community (support group) for people with eating disorders. Your doctor or therapist may be able to try to tell which community is right and suitable for your changing needs. Regardless of who you want to change, make sure you don't do it yourself. Isolation of bulimia can increase feelings of loneliness, anxiety and depression.
2. Try adjusting the eating schedule
Schedule of eating chaos can cause you to immediately vomit food afterwards. Try to eat regularly by making a schedule of three or four meals. Or eat five times a day, but the portions are small. Regular eating can also help balance the body's nutrition and provide intake to be used as energy consistently.
3. Make a list of foods
This list of foods can include which foods can be eaten and which are not. When unsafe food you eat, the desire to vomit after eating may arise because of fear of gaining weight.
Well, then to be able to walk on changing habits of this eating disorder, you can stick to foods that can be eaten while applying a regular diet and balanced nutrition. Once you begin to get used to applying regular eating patterns along with foods that can be eaten, you can slowly add other foods to restore this eating disorder.
4. Try exercises to resist vomiting
In addition to improving your intake and diet, you must also be able to refrain from vomiting food. It doesn't feel easy, but it can be done if you do it by practicing.
First you practice, try to delay the urge to vomit for three minutes. Do this delay gradually. After successfully holding back vomiting for three minutes (although after that still vomiting), you can increase the time again by as much as 5 to 10 minutes each time the desire to vomit appears.
Then add the time until you can really resist vomiting. This requires a lot of time, patience and strong recovery desires.
5. Record the process as long as you want to change
Notes such as journals or diary about your changes in dealing with this eating disorder, it is quite important. This also acts as a place for you to pour out complaints, thoughts, anxieties, goals, and successes that you have achieved during this period of improvement. Notes from these journals also give you a place to restore your mind, while being able to motivate yourself.
