Do any of you chew and spit?!


Question: I have an eating disorder, and whenever I do eat, I chew it, and spit it out.

Does anyone else suffer?


Answers: I have an eating disorder, and whenever I do eat, I chew it, and spit it out.

Does anyone else suffer?

yeah i do the samething.

nope sry <3

I used to. I've been to ed. rehabs since I was 11. I'm better now... you should get some help if you dont have it already?

sometmies!!

i dnt have this but, im sorry i wish i could help, coz my best mate does this and i dnt no wat to do!

i do

for gum

yes there is a disorder of that nature....alot of ppl start out dieting but still want the taste of certain foods so they start to chew and spit out which then becomes a habit with all the food they eat.

I used to Have a ED but I'm better now . I know it's hard to ask for help but your killing yourself ! . You'll feel so much better when your not starving . You hair will be more shiny , healthier and thicker , you'll get a sparkle in your eye and your skin will look healthy . Don't deprive your body of what it needs . I dont care if you think I'm a dork whoose giving unwanted advice , please pretty please get help , you deserve it .

Hope I helped , now help yourself , wishing you a speedy recovery x x x x x .

im glad, but not glad to know of someone else who does the same thing...totally

When I met my wife she was anorexic, and whenever she did eat, she would be bulimic. It almost killed her, and I can't stress enough that you should get some help with this!

Restricting calories isn't how you should lose weight. Actually, you should stop worrying about losing weight, and start monitoring your body composition. If you want to keep the weight off, you need to maintain and gain lean body mass while burning fat. Women shouldn't go too far below 12% body fat, since they have female parts to keep healthy. Men can easily get down around 6%, but getting lower is a real task.

I used to be a professional bodybuilder and I have years of experience at getting down around 2-3% body fat. In my early years, I would fluctuate up to about 12% body fat during my bulk phases, but as I learned and perfected the tricks of weight loss, I would hover around 8% max, which is where I still am, today.

Now, I know you probably don't want to look like a bodybuilder, but now, I am a personal trainer. I have helped many people lose over 100 pounds. I'm actually known for it. I live in Los Angeles and train actors, actresses, professional athletes, models (male and female), and even a few trophy wives. I have a degree in Exercise and Kinesthetics and a Master's Degree in Human Nutrition. If you want to lose weight, I am the expert to come to.

As an expert, I am advising that you get professional help through some sort of therapy. Speaking from my personal experience with helping my wife get well, eating disorders are very difficult to handle on your own.

What can you look forward to in your life as an anorexic? First off, your body goes into starvation mode. This makes it store fat and burn muscle and organs (heart, lungs, skeletal muscle, etc) for energy. This process is called gluconeogenesis, and it's very nasty. My wife was at a high risk for heart attacks for a year after she started eating properly because of all the damage that she caused herself. She was also at a higher risk for a stroke, embolism, aneurysm, and kidney failure. She is very lucky to be alive today. If you value your life, you should steer away from this lifestyle as soon as possible.

So, now that I've hopefully scared you away from wasting away until you can no longer walk or control your bowel movements, I'll lay out how you should start to eat and exercise to live a healthy life and be a healthy weight for the rest of a (hopefully) long life.

First off, you need to figure out how many calories you need to eat. The best way to do this is to calculate your BMR based on the Katch-McArdle Formula using lean body mass. The only way to know this number is through body fat measurements. Skin fold tests using three to four spots is the most accurate method of conveniently measuring this. The body fat scales are nice, but as they don't measure your whole body, aren't as accurate. Still, they're a good start.

Now that you know your BMR, you need to figure out your TDEE. This number is based on your level of exercise, and is the number of calories a healthy person needs to eat to maintain their current weight. As a rule, to prevent your body from going into starvation mode and using lean body mass for energy, you need to make sure that you eat at least 80% of your TDEE, every day. If you hit a plateau, eat your TDEE for a few days and then go back to your 80% TDEE number. This will fool your metabolism and will keep it from slowing down too much.

Since you've probably been eating too few calories, track your current caloric intake and slowly increase it (over two to three weeks) so you don't start start storing fat and keep burning lean body mass for energy.

Are you seeing the damage you're doing to your body, yet? I sure hope so! You could die from this.

As to diet, you need to eat five to six meals a day (preferably five if you're a woman). Each meal should consist of a lean protein, a low-GI (Glycemic Index) carb, and a fibrous carb. An example of this would be salmon (lean protein), salad (low-GI carb), and a sweet potato (fibrous carb).

Another good example is a tuna (not tuna salad, although this is fine if you can afford the calories, and it tastes much better. This is your lean protein) sandwich on whole wheat bread (fibrous carb) with lettuce and tomato (low-GI carbs).

As I write this, I'm having yogurt with whey protein (extra protein) and ground flax seed (fiber) mixed together and an apple (low-GI carb) as my mid-afternoon snack. All in all, it's not too many calories and it will keep me satisfied for the three to four hours until my next meal. Speaking of which, the only time you should go longer than four hours between meals is because you were sleeping.

Exercise is the next requirement. You should lift weights three times a week and do cardio at least three times a week. To prevent overtraining, it's usually best to take one day off and just rest. Many of my clients use this day to eat their TDEE. They feel like they're being indulgent, when in reality, as long as they still make intelligent food choices, they're helping with further weight loss by tricking their metabolism into thinking that it doesn't need to adapt to the lower caloric intake they are on the rest of the week.

But, I digress... Weight lifting is the best way to maintain lean body mass while losing fat. Cardio is the best way to lose fat, hands down. If your eating disorder hasn't damaged your body too much, yet, then you can do HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) to really burn the fat off. However, there is a definite risk of overtraining. To monitor that, you need to check your resting pulse rate every morning, before getting out of bed. If it jumps up more than 2-3 BPM, for more than two days, then you're overtraining, and need to back off on the HIIT, and just do regular cardio (or cut back on days of cardio, if you're doing more than three days a week).

When I was cutting down to competition body fat levels, this is how I would do it. I would also cycle carbs, doing days of low carbs, but that's just because my body responds well to that type of low diet. If you find that you are low on energy if you go low carb, then eat more carbs. Just make sure that you still make intelligent food choices, and you'll be well on your way to your ideal body weight and composition.

Last, if you didn't think I was already on a soapbox, here's one of my very favorite subjects: High Fructose Corn Syrup.

This stuff (along with MSG) is one of the worst things a human can put into their body. The sad truth is, it's cheaper than sugar, so food manufacturers are putting it into everything, even in foods where sugar doesn't traditionally belong. It's in bread, drinks, pasta, ketchup, you name it...

They should help with gasoline prices by making this stuff into fuel, not food.

The problem is the fructose. It doesn't trigger the hormones that make your body feel full, but it goes into overtime when it comes time to trigger insulin production. This will make you store calories as fat without making you feel full or satisfied. What happens is, people will sit down and eat a huge helping of food, and then feel guilty about it. Anorexics won't eat for a few days to compensate. Bulimics will throw it up. Exercise anorexics will hit the treadmill until their shoes wear out. Overweight people will usually just keep eating until they have to unbutton their pants, or their stomach has been stretched out so far that they feel pain and nausea from being so overfull.

This stuff supports all of those unhealthy cycles, and I think that it should be removed from the list of human-consumable "foods."

I hope that my words were harsh enough to motivate you to change your ways. They probably aren't, but at least look into getting some help. Eating disorders can be deadly. I know from first-hand experience, and I don't want anyone else to go through the difficulties I have with my wife.

While my wife was working to get healthy and continue on a proper eating plan, two girls in her support group died due to complications from their respective eating disorders.

Please don't do the same thing to yourself.





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