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 — what do you do but give up food altogether.
Except you can’t. You restrict it, and make it bland, but eventually you crave muesli. And muesli is benign, you think, and you can swap it for rice cakes that evening. But the muesli tastes so good, and the next day you are out shopping and you want cake. Even though you might have eaten the entire packet of muesli the night before. That is bulimia, and you give in.
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It’s a sign of an eating disorder when you use anorexia to cure bulimia.
