overcoming bulimia- need an accountability partner!

i have been bulimic for a little over two years now, and i am ready to stop! i have been working w/ my counselor and doctor on this, and i want so badly to quit! It is such an intense addiction.. once your in routine in seems nearly impossible to quit! I just started Prozac for depression/bulimia, so hopefully that will help. I'm looking for an accountability partner (preferably someone also recovering from bulimia) so we can encourage one another, and help keep eachother on track. Similar stats would be cool, but unnecessary.

female/ 17 y/o/ 5'7"/ cw: 160/ gw:145

Hello,

I'm wondering if there is anyone that can help me and give me advice on what to do. See, my best friend is bulimic. It was really bad two years ago but then she started recovering. Unfortunately, she has been struggling again. I and another friend confronted her and she admitted to it but i also know that she lied to me when she said it had been three weeks since the last time it happened. I'm very worried about her and want to know if anyone knows anything i can do!

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Im just proud of all the people who post here! My first step to recovery was to talk about it and share my feelings. right now im  having sort of a relapse because i gained some.

i think i cant get out of the cycle cuz i only lost weigt but lately ive been on vacation with friends and my dad so im forced to eat normal food so i  gained some back on and im really really trying to not fall back in the unhealthy sick me because i just feel good atm but when i think about gaining weight i just completely lose it again.

im 5'5, 112 lbs

 

Hi, i'm Claudia, 116 and 5'6". I've also been nulimic around 2 and a half years and recently asked for help from my family, who unfortunately told me to "deal with it". i'd love to offer and receive support if thats alright,

xx claudia

'Nother old thread. If you find an old thread on a topic you want to talk about, it's usually better to start a new one.

this response is to whomever is still struggling w bulimia.

i realize this post was from over a year ago - but how has your progress been "littlemissposh"?  I would love to be your ACCTABILITY PARTNER!  that is unless you already have one. if you were 17 last yr that means you're 18 now..  i'm 22. but i'm the same height & weight as you.  but much could've changed in a year & half..

my bulimia was developed from my initial anorexia.  as bad as this sounds, looking back, i would much rather have stayed an anorexic than have become a bulimic.  it's a different kind of pain.  but bulimia definitely stole more of my life away & had more damaging effects in my relationships than anorexia..

mandelion?  i have a Q for you..  in your response you mentioned telling your bf of 6yrs. How did he react? are you guys still together?  my bf of 3 yrs.. is the closest person in my life.  my parents are overseas & my sister is 6 yrs older than me.  we have never been very close.  i wouldn't even know where to BEGIN explaining if i ever told her.  she is actually in med school, so something like an ED would be a joke to her and i can only hear how she'd ridicule me for destroying my body like this..  but i KNOW i need a support group.  i cannot live on like this anymore!  i am SURE all of you can relate.  it has gone from a want/need to control our own bodies into the complete opposite! this ED has taken over & control of ME! 

my bf's ex used to be a bulimic too.. and he told me about how he walked in on her puking and how disgusting that was.  the way he described it to me BROKE MY HEART, knowing that i'm doing the same thing to myself behind closed doors.  Whenever he can't reach me on my cell, it's bc i'm at it again: another B&P cycle. then I have to make up some excuse about how i was taking a long bubble bath & didnt hear him, or worse yet, i say i was at the gym exercising.  what a pathetic oxymoron right?

i am afraid of losing the one person closest to me if i tell him.  but if i don't, i HATE having to constantly lie to him & pretend like i'm his perfect happy-go-lucky girl, when i am dying on the inside.

the bulimia has gotten so out of hand that i went from my controlled anorexic state of 121lbs & 5'7'' to a disgusting fat blob of 155lbs.  We used to live together, and somehow, he never found out about my bulimia.  But once I moved out and started living on my own, all hell broke loose.

I cannot AFFORD to contact some institute & be taken away into rehab to be cured of this.  I have school & bills to pay.  It's just not feasible.

I really need a support group.  Can someone who has walked in my shoes, or are currently in the same boat please offer some words of advise?

best regards to all.