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Black Women And Eating Disorders??
Has anyone heard of Diabulemia ? I may have heard of it in passing, but didn't know what it was when i came across this video. It's basically where people
Has anyone heard of Diabulemia? I may have heard of it in passing, but didn't know what it was when i came across this video. It's basically where people with Type I diabetes manipulate (withhold) the administration of their prescribed insulin so that the body burns fat and muscle, preventing weight gain.
I just click on the black thinspiration. Wow! Of course black girls have body image issues. Some want to be skinny. Some want to be video vixen thick getting lipo, implants, and injections. Its rare for black girl to want to be very skinny since the black community hold curvy bodies as the beauty standard.
I want to be thin but healthy looking with a good amount of t&a.
Don't know if this is a thread to insult black women or not, but black women have eating disorders just like any other group.
I worked at an HBCU several years ago, and saw many young women starving themselves to be 'slim';I also saw young women who appeared to have anorexia. That video, of the young lady using her insulin to lower her weight, was disturbing. Russian roulette with medicine.
Young/women who are at the opposite of the weight spectrum, 'thick' or 'thicker' also have eating disorders, which can be the result of depression (undiagnosed), economics, availability of healthier foods, poor decision-making in food choices, thyroid, metabolism deficiencies, with the added issue, of lack of exercise.
Well I'm a black woman and I've been bulimic since the age of 13. I'm still severely obese. I just thank God it"s never been discovered. Its an embarassing problem. I blame my mother. She told me I was fat since I was 5 years old. I have vivid memories of her pinching my stomach and making me feel worthless because of my weight and I was tiny as a child. She"s starting to do that to my (aughter who"s 7 and when I tell her to stop she doesn't listen. She pinches her stomach and make comments on her body all the time. When I cut her ass off from my kids and she crying about it she"ll get the message than.
Well I'm a black woman and I've been bulimic since the age of 13. I'm still severely obese. I just thank God it"s never been discovered. Its an embarassing problem. I blame my mother. She told me I was fat since I was 5 years old. I have vivid memories of her pinching my stomach and making me feel worthless because of my weight and I was tiny as a child. She"s starting to do that to my (aughter who"s 7 and when I tell her to stop she doesn't listen. She pinches her stomach and make comments on her body all the time. When I cut her ass off from my kids and she crying about it she"ll get the message than.
I admit, I was bulimic for a while after hanging out with my white college roommate who seemed to eat everything in sight, yet stayed skinny as a toothpick and who still complained about being fat. She would binge and then throw it all up. All it did was just make me eat even more. Looking back on my eating habits, I'm pretty sure that I had anorexia when I was 13 because I remember never eating my school lunch and just mostly playing with the food before it was time to go back to class. And I barely ate at home. It was the same in high school, yet I did manage to eat hot cheetos and drank tons of water all of the time and maintained a healthy weight. Since college, I've just been at a standstill. I know exactly what I need to do to lose weight and I just don't have the follow-through. I have zero motivation, no matter how much Thinspiration I look at.
I know that my mom abused her migraine medication and lost all of her weight from that without exercising, so I think something in me keeps telling me that I should go that route and not to bother with exercising. But I don't want that hanging skin that she has. I'm pretty sure that right now, I don't have an eating disorder and that I just make poor food choices depending on my mood and how much money I have.
My aunt has been gulping down apple cider vinegar as a weight loss tool, but from what I read on that, it just burns your insides because it's acid. I drank a teaspoon of it and instantly got sick so I'm not sure how she handles the amount she drinks.
However, I do believe that this is something that is universal, rather than something unique to black women. There are a lot of white and brown women I see who appear to have "fatorexia" as well.
I've lost 43 lbs since I began going to the gym in April . I visited my family this week and I was called fat bitch atLEAST 50 times and that's no exaggeration. When I said hey I lost 40 lbs I was laughed at and insulted even more. It is no wonder I am bulimic. I"ve decided to stay as far away from them as possible . My mother has incurable cancer but I'm sick of being guilted. I'm not gonna let her toxic ass posion me and my kids. I refuse to let my children grow up hearing me being insulted like that or allowing her to make my child feel bad about her body. When she sick in that hospital bed alone and crying ...well...I just don't know. I guess I'm supposed to feel bad about it....but Karma is a bitch!
Of course some black women suffer from eating disorders. It's all about body image. But in my experience when I've lost weight (and I needed to) family members and certain friends were not supportive of that. Tried to make me feel like I was acting like I was something that I wasn't... "Oh so you think since you moved to a big city you the shit now" or "You're trying to act like those white friends of yours"... by losing weight for my own health! These same people were the ones that liked to make sly comments when I was overweight. Whatever.
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