BMI SCALE BULL$#!% by Laci Green
until you get way, way up there….it really is bs
25 May 2012 / Reblogged from lacigreen with 382 notes
We all know your throat will explode and bleed, rupturing, and you’ll die a slow, painful death. We know your teeth will rot and your glands will swell, that your throat will hurt and your face will get chipmunk-y. Your electrolytes will get fucked up, you’ll retain water, never shit, and maybe pass out or even have a heart attack.
but FOR WHATEVER REASON that doesn’t seem to deterr people. so here:
You eat a meal. Maybe a bit too much. You decide to get rid of it. Fine. Whatever. But then you start to justify meals, in your head, by saying, “oh it will be fine if I eat a little, ill just purge it later.” So you begin to eat and purge.
Then that becomes more regular. You begin eating more at meals because, hey- you’ll purge it anyway. Then you eat a bit more and purge. And a bit more. Because you’re puking it anyway, who cares how much?
before you know it, you’re full-on binging and purging. It’s fine, even though your stomach and throat are starting to hurt a bit…okay a lot. Spitting a little blood but who cares, It’s red and not a lot so it’s not from anywhere important. You binge regularly. Then you start actively looking for things to binge on, challenging yourself- how crazy can you get, and just undo it? What’s the most unhealthy, fattening food you can eat? Go all the way. why not? You’re puking it all up, anyway. Undoing it.
But it’s getting harder. Purging isn’t easy. It used to come up in four gags and now it takes forty. You used to use two fingers and now you’ve got your whole hand down your throat and then, somehow, you’re trying to use two, tickling your epiglottis, desperate for something, anything to trigger a gag.
so you puke less and less up successfully. 80% gets out. Then 60%. Half. Then a third. Then a quarter, and then you’re lucky if you get up anything but the liquid you drank during your binge.
so you gain weight. You can’t purge the binges anymore so your daily calorie counts go up to ridiculous numbers - even tens of thousands of calories, if you pick the right foods.
and now you can’t purge, so you decide, “oh, ill stop binging, then.” but you can’t.
anything you eat turns into a binge, so you’ve got two options: completely starve and lose and kill your organs, or binge and binge and gain and kill your organs. Most people do a bit of both.
you just thought you could get a few hundred calories ahead by purging that dinner, that first time. And look what’s happened.
I love you and am imploring you: don’t try.
25 Mar 2012 / Reblogged from how-to-be-a-skinny-bitch with 47 notes