13 Day Fast to Regain Healthy Eating Habits - Fasting & Bulimia

by Kaitlyn
(New Jersey, USA)

I'm starting a 13 day fast beginning on February 2nd. I'm a recovering bulimic and I am utterly unable to eat normally. A 10-day water fast broke my cycle of binging and purging about 6 months ago.

I was ready to begin to slowly introduce a balanced and healthy diet into my life. But my family was quite upset at my rapid weight loss and forced a great deal of food on me. This backfired and sent me back into a relapse of purging.

All around me fasting is scorned upon and it is impossible to garner any support for even a master cleanse from my family or friends; I have tried.

If I tell them they will not only discourage me, they will put me in situations where eating is impossible to get out of it. Telling them would only make fasting harder for me.

So my fasting must be done in a covert fashion, which can get difficult at times, because it makes me feel as if I am doing something wrong or harmful.

Especially coming from a background of disordered eating, where fasting is looked at negatively (and when underweight and done for the wrong reasons, I believe it is unhealthy). But I am not underweight and I want to regain my life, being able to eat normally and healthy without binging or purging.

I am really glad I found this site because the last time I fasted, at three days I began to feel extremely guilty and wanted to eat like "normal" people.

I felt like what I was doing was unhealthy. So I broke it. This website will help me get through those 13 days, despite no one in my real life being able to support me.

Wish me luck! & Thank you for having such an extensive website on fasting, it really has helped me immensely.