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Threw up the food I ate from earlier instead of the food I just ate?

481 views 7 replies 4 participants last post by  Whisper???  
#1 ·
I have this habit of eating the entirety of my meals I get when I get home whenever the rare occasion of when I go out to eat comes around. Today my bf and I went out to celebrate our anniversary and I only ate half of everything I got for dinner. but when I got home, I finished everything.... just- obliterated it all. And I was already full before I finished it all. I instantly drank a bunch of water and went to throw up. I stopped after my chest started clenching up but I noticed that I was throwing up the food I had when I first went out instead of any of the food I JUST ate. And it was all the vegetables too! I mean, it was pointless to keep going anyways if it was just the low cal stuff :/
Does this happen to anyone else? Or is my body just weird .-. I've only really attempted throwing up my food a few times so I'm still clueless to all this.
 
#2 ·
vegetables stay in your stomach forever, man. and they're very light, especially when they're all broken down by stomach acid, so when you eat something else they sort of float up to the surface. your body isn't weird (and if you were upset with yourself you really shouldn't be!) but if you keep binging and purging, it's going to get very weird, very fast. purging is the worst thing you can possibly do for your digestion, teeth, hair, skin, heart, throat, salivary glands... you get it. I'm sure you know it's bad for you, and I completely understand the desperation to get food out of you at any cost, but please, darling, try to quit while you can. binging and purging back to back all day every day for weeks is no fun. and neither is dying of a heart attack (or so I've heard).
 
#4 ·
Thank you for your concern.. I just feel so bad after eating all that food, I don't want to live with the guilt :/ but the inevitable weight gain is the price I have to pay for my lack of self restraint I guess
I know how hard it is, I've been doing it myself so of course I understand. But trust me, you are going to want to quit eventually, so why not do it now when it's as easy as it's ever gonna be? Because as hard as it is to handle that food in your stomach now, it's going to be so so sooo much harder when you get used to always being completely empty. And try not to feel too down on yourself, you deserve delicious food and to go out on dates with your boyfriend!
 
#5 · (Edited by Moderator)
The more liquid you drink and the longer since you’ve eaten, the more the food in your stomach rearranges by density. It’s a weird situation and I hate purging veggies (I wanted to digest those! Not whatever’s crap I ate after!) and eventually gave up the idea of preceding a binge with healthy foods
 
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#8 ·
Vegetables are b---- Carrots were always the first to come up. Oh the urge to pyrge is overwhealming...

Seriously. Vegetables are jerks. It was so bad at one point i could purge up to 5 hours later with little acid or digestion. Carrots could be in my stomach up to a full 7 hours.