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An eating disorder is a compulsion in which the main problem is a person eats in a way which disturbs their physical health. The eating may be too excessive (compulsive over-eating...

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The Cycle.....
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Everybody has their own little cycle. Rather it's binge purge, restrict, excessive exercise, ext... I just wanted to know what or how everyone else's cycle goes.

My Cycle:
1. Starve
2. Restrict
3. Binge
4. Purge
5. Exercise

*My b/p usally occurs right before I start and it gets me messed up for almost 2 weeks.
Posted on 06/03/07, 09:06 am
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Reply #1 - 06/03/07  9:20am
" my cycle goes-
1)starve
2)have something there noing im not gonna eat it!
3)binge!lol
4)starve!
5)spitt out etc..... "
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Reply #2 - 06/03/07  6:26pm
" My cycle:
1.Restriction
2. Anxiety about failure of restrictive diet
3. Binge
4. Purge (may do it a couple of times)
5. Starvation or restriction

(I constantly exercise no matter what part of my cycle I'm in) "
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Reply #3 - 06/03/07  6:31pm
" lucijo my cycle is similar to yours
restrict and excessive exercise
anxiety about failure
failure= binge
purge and excessive exercise
restriction and continued excessive exercise
mine is consistant and is getting more regular i have no let off days. "
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Reply #4 - 06/04/07  1:57am
" binging for me is always worse at night? dont get it! "
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Reply #5 - 06/04/07  2:22pm
" Binging is always bad at night time for me to. We should find out a way to stop it. "
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Reply #6 - 06/04/07  2:38pm
" yer i dont no why? but it's awful around 6 at night! and i try everything to get my mind of it but it dosnt always work!grrrrrrrrrr "
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Reply #7 - 06/04/07  2:53pm
" ummm.... well maybe we should do something like....
Take a HOT shower [it supresses your appetite]
Get comfortable in your bed [u wont want to get up]
and
Chew gum [keeping your mouth busy]
u should do these and so will i and then we mess e/o and tell us how it went.
u want to? "
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Reply #8 - 06/04/07  2:57pm
" my ed cycle starts in the morning sometimes...I stop and binge on the way to work...purge...do that for lunch...and most of the time dinner...they are usually inline with my menstral cycle too...and they are usually worse with relationships that are going badly... "
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Reply #9 - 06/04/07  3:22pm
" i always get really bad cycle when my menstral cycle is about to start and during it! i was doing to well up to that point and then it all goes out the window anyone know why!!? "
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Reply #10 - 06/04/07  3:28pm
" Yes I do to. It's b/c when your on your body needs certian things to keep going. I forget what I was going to say but yeah thats basically it. Sorry, someone is sitting here so it's kinda hard to concentrate. "
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