"Anorexics are always underweight, Bulimics are always normal weight, and Complusive Overeaters and Binge Eaters are always overweight."
This is NOT so. An anorexic can weigh 200 pounds (say, the person used to weigh 260 lbs), a bulimic can weigh 300 pounds or 80 pounds, and a complusive/bing eater can weigh 110 pounds. THE WEIGHT IS NOT THE ISSUE! THE ISSUE IS: THE MINDSET!!! A 200 lb person can be just as obsessed with exercise and counting calories as someone who is of normal weight or underweight! There are plenty of binge eaters who are also athletes and thus work off the calories (but are not exercising as means of purging), and maintain a normal weight, and there are bulimics who also restrict (sometimes called bulimiarexia), and bulimics who take in 10,000 calories per binge - imagine if you only "get rid" of 5000 of the calories- you still digest the other 5000, thus bulimia can frequently lead to weight gain. |
