In Ayurveda, on the other hand, fasting is done for physical purification. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, it is expected that the faster will lose weight, but that’s okay, because mortification of the flesh and all that have a place in religion.
Which makes them the perfect cover for not eating — religious freedom extends further [...]
Archive for August, 2008
XXXIX
Posted in mia, tagged bulimia on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
XXXVIII
Posted in mia, tagged bulimia on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Like breatharians, fasters in Qi Gong can partially survive on qi.
Luckily for anorexics, until you’ve learned how to do this, you starve.
XXXVII
Posted in mia, tagged bulimia on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Food is bad for you.
Yes it is, the way you use it.
So shut up, and get on with your life.
XXXVI
Posted in mia, tagged bulimia on August 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Distorted body image? Nah.
Bulimics (sometimes) look in the mirror and are surprised how thin they look.
(Especially when they haven’t looked in a mirror for weeks. But that’s an anorexic tendency — to distort the body image to seem bigger than reality.)
In anorexia that might be used as an excuse to fast.
In bulimia that might equally [...]
XXXV
Posted in mia, tagged bulimia on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Veganism.
You like silk and wool. You get cold without them when you’re in an anorectic phase.
You are not really a vegan. What if you want sashimi?
You’ll become vegan anyway.
External, mass-sanctioned restriction (and the other benefits).
XXXIV
Posted in mia, tagged bulimia on August 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
You fast because you don’t want to have to deal with food. It’s okay — it’s over. You have a plan, and you can do it for a week or so, and then you can eat something liquid and non-scary till you feel you’re ready to deal with food again. But food catches up with [...]
XXXIII
Posted in mia, tagged bulimia on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Time for a primer on the Shangri-La Diet. Seth Roberts says that taste encourages hunger. You eat chocolate: you want more food. You eat plain rice: you finish your bowl and go off to work. The body has a ’set point’: you lower it by eating less stuff with taste but which still has calories, [...]
XXXII
Posted in mia, tagged bulimia on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Anorexia is very similar to bulimia. You can see the truth in the idea that anorexics are the ones who might have had bulimia but they are stronger than it; they care more, they work more. After all anorexics crave food too. They just less often get as far as ingesting it.
But the disorders are [...]
XXXI
Posted in mia, tagged bulimia on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The trouble (of course) is, you can’t control it. It’s all very well eating healthily, but if it leads to your bingeing, repeatedly, day after day for a month, at breakfast: but you eat as much as people do in two meals; at lunch: but you eat as much again; at dinner: and again — [...]
XXX
Posted in mia, tagged bulimia on August 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You pig!
Have you got your period back? You hate to think how much you must weigh. It’s about bearable when your stomach’s completely empty, when you’ve been fasting for four days, but you balloon and bloat and swell the instant food passes your lips and oesophagus and stays there — in the stomach of food.
You [...]
