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How much would YOU weigh if... ?

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
How much do you think you would weigh if you had never purged any of the food or binges that you have purged this far?

Version 1 - pertaining to vomit only purges
Version 2 - any and all forms of purging you've used

EDIT: Add context IF you feel comfortable
Such as...
-height
-current weight
-how long you've been purging
-anything else relevant

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#3 ·
I only purge through vomit, my workout routine is stable.
I think I'd be around 180-190
Well u just made me realize I should add to my post for y'all to add context if u feel comfortable.. imma add that now. Thanks for sharing. Feel free to add your own context if u wish! :)

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#5 ·
Well, its hard for me to calculate this because if i couldnt purge then i also couldnt eat as much as i do. I empty my stomach many times in a b/p session in order to make room for more food. If i kept down all the food that i ate in the past year, id already be 500lb but that wouldnt really be possible because most of it could only be eaten after i purged. I hope this makes sense.

Realistically, i know that id probably be about 150 if i ate however i wanted without purging anything because this is basically what happened to me while i was in treatment many years ago.
 
#7 ·
It's hard, because I binge eat more because I purge. Somedays I'd easily eat 20,000 calories, but can only fit that much because I purge. Although I do have a really high metabolism, even when I was just a bigger my weight wouldn't go much above 165lb/75kg. But I'm guessing if I ate the way I do now and didn't purge probably like 600lb lol
 
#8 ·
As Salamandar said, I also often b/p more than once and I physically wouldn't be able to continue eating if I didn't purge, so if taking that into consideration I would still probably be like 300lbs maybe even like 600lbs lol, assuming I ate to fullness everyday. I've been b/ping maybe 2 years now.

But if I knew I couldn't purge to begin with, I probably wouldn't have even started.. and definitely wouldn't have eaten as much as I have. I might even have continued restricting and lost more weight.
 
#10 ·
Even thinking about it scares me a little bit. I like to believe these days that I wouldn't be much heavier because I've been pretty active for a while, eat quite healthily and hardly binge/eat a lot... I drink a lot of alcohol though. It's very difficult to say. Maybe I'd be more than a couple of stone heavier?? 10stone? But I definitely wouldn't manage that. I think that would be the thing which would make me purge if I never had.. or stop drinking alcohol, eating and keep busy, if I couldn't. Being heavier is what started all of this, whatever this is.

But I also agree with Grindylow..

But if I knew I couldn't purge to begin with, I probably wouldn't have even started.. and definitely wouldn't have eaten as much as I have. I might even have continued restricting and lost more weight.
Tbf, when I do binge, I wouldn't be able to fit much in without purging. I kinda sometimes do both... Eat, drink, puke, eat, drink, puke, eat, drink, puke repeat. On a bad day, I can't stop.. but usually these days I can. I know I'm only wasting time and money. And relationships and self respect.
 
#12 ·
i am rather newish to binging (had just anorexia until around may when I started bp) and i think if i didn’t bp i would likely be at 73lbs, if I didn’t purge I’d say maybe 120?
 
#13 · (Edited)
Well, I just wouldn't physically be able to fit all the food inside of me, lol.

Had a few phases already where I went into a kind of "fuck it" mentality, purging just to be able to eat more. Due to either my gag reflex not working or me simply not caring about anything anymore. Most days I'd fall asleep in my bed knawing on some stuff I snatched out the fridge, with idk well over 5k calories in my system. So yeah, I think that's what would happen. I'd fill myself up to the brim, anyways. Also, I just purge via vomiting. (I sometimes throw in 1-2 days of fasting or low restriction inbetween, if that counts. But that obviously doesn't negate the effects of my huge binges.) I think it's quite realistic to think that should I cut out purging completely, I'd baloon up to a ridiculous degree. Especially since I already weighed like 100kg, that's 220lbs, before my ED, without binging every day. (Looking back I realize, I was overeating regularly, tho) For reference I'm about 181cm/5'11, but still, I was damn huge. I'd just die of severe obesity or eventually unalive myself.

TL;DR: Dead. I'd be dead, from all the food.
 
#14 ·
I'd be on 600 lbs life for sure! I BP on up to 23.000 calories in a day and I eat outside of Bping too. My sessions are so huge I'd definitely be obese by now if I wouldn't be so effective at handsfree purging.
Btw I've maintained around BMI 12-13s for over 3 years now (now I'm finally trying to gain a bit of weight back but otherwise I don't gain weight from BPing)
Currently BMI 13.6~ I think [emoji848] so 40kg at 172cm. I'm super sedentary literally don't move all day and my maintenance is only 1100 calories~and I usually BP on roughly 20k calories binges and keeping down maintenance outside of it

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#15 ·
i purge on average about 3 times a week over the past 6 months, each one is around about 800 cal (these are conservative estimates)
so I've purged around 60k cal since starting (to be honest I think its actually a lot more but I forget a lot of my b/ps?)
Thats 16.5 pounds of fat, which ironically when I first started purging was my weight loss goal. I reached my goal, regained 8 pounds, and now my goal is 2 stone lower than where I am. Thinspo is wrecking my perception of what I want lmao...
I could calculate what my actual weight would be in terms of increased bmr from sustaining that fat tissue etc but its kinda needlessly complicated? I'd basically be about 12 stone, or 168 pounds. Or a bit more