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An important part of bulimia recovery is discovering yourself and what is important to YOU, surprising fashion can support this. You may think to be fashionable, you need to be thin but fashion isn’t what you see on the runway or magazine. Fashion is developing about expressing your personal style and owning it.

Because bulimia develops over time, the line between normal, non bulimic behavior and bulimic behaviour blur. How can you tell if you are slipping towards bulimia or indeed have bulimia and not know it? Check Out The 7 Signs Below and See If Any Seem Familiar.

Recovering from bulimia is no walk in the park. If you’re someone who has lived with an eating disorder, bulimia treatment and recovery can be one of the hardest things you’ll have to go through in your life.

In summary, the news story reports the mother receiving a school letter stating that the results of the [State Mandated] Health Screening and Evaluation had revealed that her daughter’s Body Mass Index (BMI), was high and “could be severely detrimental to her health and academic performance if it went untreated”.

I’d be so upset and frustrated with myself; I just couldn’t understand why I couldn’t stop bingeing and purging despite my best intentions and daily resolve to be ‘good’.

Even when I was well on the road to recovery and relapses were few and far between I’d find myself getting anxious about food and my weight and how I was going to cope when faced with all the trigger foods and situations over the Christmas period.

I ask you this question after receiving a tweet that suggested “eating disorders are 80% genetic so the media doesn’t play a big role in the development of them”. What’s more, when I enquired as to where the statistic came from, the answer was that’s “it’s common knowledge”.

I love this time of year as the earth wakes up from its winter slumber and what looked dead comes alive.  The world colours up as the trees, plants and flowers come back to life and the days get brighter, warmer and longer.

Personally I don’t see how the movie ‘Likeness’ by Rodrigo Prieto is helpful. This short video about ‘eating disorders’ is more of a thinspiration (pro anorexia / pro bulimia) video with all the images of skinny models taking up a high percentage of the footage.  So potentially glamourising eating disorders and triggering for someone with an eating disorder.

However I’ve now been bulimia free for over 20 years. Instead of obsessing about my weight, popping laxatives and slimming pills and being terrified of getting fat, I have a healthy relationship with food and myself. What’s more I found freedom without therapy or mediacation. Instead I tapped into and used a resource I already had inside me. And the good news is that you have this resource too – and it’s waiting to help you become bulimia free.