Will you lose weight if you throw up?

honetly, not really.
i've been bullimic for 5 months and all it's done for me its ruin my metabolism. i'll eat or binge then weigh myself, then go thow up, weigh myself and weigh either the same of lose half a poud to a full pound. it's not worth it though. keep your metabolism, once you start throwing up, your metabolism stops working then your forced to throw everything up after every meal so you dont gain so much weight.

my main point is bullimia doesn't make you lose as much weight as most people think.

Yes, throwing up is a method that people use to lose weight. It is a recognised eating disorder knowen as bulimia and is extremely destructive to a persons physical and mental wellbeing.
Physical sideeffects include:
Esophageal problems
Vocal chord damage
Stomach ulcers
Osteoporosis
Hair loss
Digestive problems
Decreased body temperature
Irregular heart beat
Elimination problems
Dental Damage
Organ damage
Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
Enlarged salivary glands
Dry skin
Decreased bone density
Menstrual dysfunction
Hormone irregularities
Insomnia
Low red blood cell levels
Weak muscles
Immune system damage
All in all there are much more effective and healthy ways to lose weight such as diet and exercise as stipulated by your gp or alternitivly a doctor specialising in obesity or a personal trainer. A battle with an eating disorder scars a person for life so please do not even contemplate doing this to yourself.

Yes, and you'll lose weight if you chop off your arms and legs too...

Yes, but you'll also probably lose your hair eventually, and your teeth will get all corroded so when you're older - like 25 or 30 your teeth will be all damaged and will stain really easily on coffee, tea, or wine you drink. Not to mention the damage you'll do to your heart and other organs. You'll rip up your esophagus too from all the acidity you're constantly putting up into it, causing eternal acid reflux, a condition that some people unfortunately get without even being bulimic and that in extreme cases the upper digestive tract has to be reconstructed surgically.

Basically you will ruin your body and feel the effects of this behavior for the rest of your life. And the weight will come back. How badly do you want to do this?

Sure, but it's probably the worst, most unhealthy way to do it. Megan's answer covered a lot of the physical facts about the disease that is bulimia, but here is a little personal anecdote that I can add:

A good friend of mine used to be bulimic; she'd gotten through it and managed to cope with the problem and was pretty much better. Then she moved to Hollywood to go to school to become an actress and her body issues reared their ugly heads again.

She began binging and purging again and is now to the point that even if she had the mental will and strength to stop it, she is physically unable to stop herself from vomiting after she eats. Sometimes, she burps and her food just comes up. Most times, though, she just takes herself to the bathroom after every meal and takes care of business there. Once, we were walking along after having split a burrito, having a conversation, when she casually leaned over, projectile vomited in the bushes, and continued walking as if nothing had happened.

Throwing up is your body's reaction to POISON. It is what your body does when it NEEDS to eliminate something in your body that is not supposed to be there before it goes through your digestive system and is absorbed into your bloodstream. When you vomit, Also, you bring up all sorts of stomach acids into your throat and esophagus that are supposed to stay in your stomach. These acids erode your throat and esophagus as well as causing pretty much constant puke breath (ew). It seems that my friend has tricked her body into thinking that any food that goes into her stomach is one of the poisons that it must reject, so she always vomits after eating now. It will take intensive physical and psychological therapy to get her back to normal, and even then she may still have problems.

From what I've read, bulimia is a little bit like a drug addiction; once you start, the need for it gets stronger and stronger until you're unable to help yourself. It's not something that you can do for a week to drop a couple of pounds to fit into your prom dress and then go back to normal. Please, don't do it.

Read this book for further information, it's about a woman's struggle with anorexia and bulimia: http://www.amazon.com/Wasted-Memoir-Anorexia-Bulimia-P-S/dp/0060858796/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206035803&sr=8-1

You will most definitely lose appeal.

I lost 30lbs in 3 mos. It was great but it's hard to stop. At times I keep my food down but I feel sick. I feel like I can't breath unless I throw up. It's true, my hair falls out. BUT I think who cares as long as I'm skinny, right? wrong! Ive gained 20lbs back and I'm stuggling now to lose weight. I can eat and throw up but only lose a pound or so. I think I put my body into shock. I wish I never started this.

Works for bulimics world wide.

The tooth decay, rapid bone loss, general malaise and early death is kind of a bitch though.

your weight will yo-yo and your teeth will rot

You'll just lose the little bit of weight of the food. You won't lose any fat.

Physically, probably.
Considering the closeness of this question to Bulimia, it saddens me.

aww sweetie please dont get yourself into that it is a horrible habit i am bilumic and it is awful you need to talk to someone about it babes please just take my advice and stop if your friends say your skinny you probably are bet you have got a gorgeous figure on you and do you think ladz like lasses that look pale and when out for a meal you have to go to the bathroom to throw it up no i dont think so take care and add me on msn if you want to talk its jodie_boo@hotmail.co.uk x

Actually, not so much.
Other users have already given great reason as to why not to do it, and the horrible side effects.

But moreover, purging is not so much a successful way to lose weight. Here's why: Your body starts breaking down the food and absorbing calories IMMEDIATELY after consumption, therefore, by the time you actually purge the food, your body will have already absorbed some of the calories.

i am throwing up now after i eat most meals in hopes that i will lose weight im not huge but i definitly need to lose weight. i keep saying to myself that once i get out on my own i will become a vegetarian. the food that my parents bring into the house now i wouldnt call healthy. but its what my mom can offord so i cant complain. so this is what i am doing now throwing up after meals. if i lose any weight i will be happy. i know this is a disorder but its what i want to do to lose weight and maybe one day i will do it the right way but for now this is it. p.s. i am not incouraging anybody to do what i am doing. dont do it, it just feels good to talk about to you guys you are the first people beside my sister who knows that i am doing this. goodbye.

Please don't even start...I tried it thinking I could just do it a few times and be done with it but it really has become an addiction now I have to work even harder than before to control it and my addiction to food also.
I honestly thought it wouldn't be this way but it is and all I can say is that it is soooo not worth the constant shame I feel because of it... it's a mental crutch and I hate having to depend on it like I do. Please don't be stupid like I was when I first started considering it as a weight loss option.

i'm fourteen,
and this summer i was "the fat one".
so i tried to stop eating, and went about two weeks.
but then i passed out from exhaustion from swimming.
i started throwing up in July and i've done it atleast three times a day(usually 6 or 7 lately).
i lost a bunch of weight, but now i stay between 109-114.
it's awful, i can't eat pizza or mexican or anything good anymore, and i'm only fourteen.
i'm not against it, and i won't preach to you, but it's not as great as it seems. trust me, i should've listened to my friends before i started.

thanx for your answers. the truth is that my friends say that im skinny, but i just feel fat. at least now ill know that throwing up is not a good way 2 lose weight

I just recently started throwing up my foods I just am so depressed and don't feel like my boyfriend loves me anymore cause of all the weight I've put on after I had my daughter so the only other choice I have is to just throw up all of Wat I've eaten. And just hope it works I see for some its worked I've started and now I can't stop I know its bad I just can't bare it anymore n now my stomach turns when I eat anything I just can't eat ...

No, in fact you will not lose weight. You will be throwing up, and it will be extremely painful but never be actually able to lose weight and be able to keep it off that way. you're body will start acting badly to food, storing anything and everything it has and that will cause you to gain more weight after awhile. Try exercise and a nice diet, process is long, but healthy and effective.

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for me throwing up worked i got depressed last year and i didnt feel good enough for my ex fiance who was my fiance at the time i didnt feel good enough because he was cheating on me for 7 months straight so i turned bullimic i used to weigh 140 pounds and i threw up for 3 months and i weighed 115 i dont know about you guys but it worked for me=]

First of all... NOPE! It doesn't help you lose weight in the long run!
Don't be an idiot. You can go do a weightloss program thing like the cambridge diet (google it, it's really good, healhty and the weight actually stays off and you still get to eat). don't ty these anorexia and bulimia extremes because I know it can seem exciting/celebrity to you and you want to drop the weight fast but it just never turns out well. Only a fool doesn't learn from the mistakes of others, don't put your hand in fire just so you can know what it feels like when someone else has got burned and told you.

I really don't even know how to emphasise enough on how much you should NOT do this... and physically, you will end up GAINING weight because, unless you want to puke for the rest of your life, when you start if you ever want to stop (which you will have to eventually whether through a decision/death..yes, it leads to death) your metabolism completely won't work and you start to gain weight like crazy. The only weigh to avoid that would be going through serious hospitalized physical and psychological therapy which will be DEEPLY EMBARRASSING,

it's not "cute" everyone always insults people who INTENTIONALLY walks into an eating disorder behind their ba cjs and at this point, that's exactly what you'd be doing.

so NO! DO NOT DO IT! Please, for your own good.

once you start you can't stop. it will take over your life and control everything. you will lie to everyone, hurt those who find out, cause financial stress, become anti-social, depression, anxiety attacks, dry skin, sudden coldness, insomnia, suicidal thoughts/attempts, self harm, terrible wraths of anger, fear, loneliness, fatigue, you won't be able to digest properly, you'll get sore throats that hurt like no tomorrow, your teeth will become gross and yellow, you'll get bruises and darker toning under your eyes, and that's only some. don't do it. even if it's "oh. it's only one time." it'll turn into, "just one more time can't hurt. . " before you know it you're eating everything than heaving it back up. it's not worth it one bit. if you have started, get help before it's too late. i'm too terrified of myself to get help. it's seriously a horrid thing to go through, i don't want that to happen to someone else.

I really want to lose weight and the only way I can do it is by making myself vomit, I've tried not-eating but really I just can't do it I like it better when I eat whatever I want and throw up, but I hate making making myself vomit, my esophagus Now hurts cause I just threw up.... You guys I'm really fat and there are it of things that j would love to fit into. I know I'm probably making myself sound obese but I'm not that big it's just that I have ALOT of fat on places like my thighs and arms. Thanks x.
P.S I really need help! :P

You will lose weight, but it is very hard to stop once you start. I am 15 years old and i have done this off and on for two years now it helps you lose weight but i messes up you metabolisim

not really you would be sick not all that cute if you wanna lose weight then you should star running or do something like that

I just recently started throwing up my foods I just am so depressed and don't feel like my boyfriend loves me anymore cause of all the weight I've put on after I had my daughter so the only other choice I have is to just throw up all of Wat I've eaten. And just hope it works I see for some its worked I've started and now I can't stop I know its bad I just can't bare it anymore n now my stomach turns when I eat anything I just can't eat ...

I have been purging after my meals for almost two years now... It is a terrible feeling that after you eat you just feel it is necesary to throw up.... I did lose a lot of weight but i couldn't tell you if it was from purging or from the exercise i did along with it. I used to be hard core body conscience but now i'm slowly coming off of purging and i have gained weight more than when i started but i'm also more tired and i get sick often. I was never one to be sick or tired always full of energy but that is what it has caused for me. I have never told anyone about purging and i wish i could... It's a deadly secret and i wish i wasnt goign through it.

nooooooooooo

Yes, but that isnt a very good way to lose weight!
Throwing up food will make you VERY sick and you will lose weight BUT you will be very boney and sick looking. Losing weight the right way has no risks at all and you'll feel great about yourself. Also, the acid by throwing up so much will rot your teeth and you wont be able to fix that ever again. Just eat right and exercise.

I've been bulimic for about 2 years and a half now. Let me just tell you that you technically DO lose weight on the scale but it's all muscle mass. You will constantly be the same weight or lose some so it makes you think throwing up is what's making it work. The catch is, all the muscle is replaced with fat so it's not a pretty picture. Your metabolism slows down, it's harder to lose weight, and you feel so swollen all the time. Worst feeling ever.

Conclusion: same/less NUMBER weight but all fat and not muscle.

Hello I have not been throwing up but maybe a few weeks I was 224 lbs I am now 209 in just like 2 wks, it is very addicting I do eat a granola bar and glass of milk every morning, and keep it down I starve all day then I grub at dinner and throw up about 30 mins later so my family doesn't know. I take a multi vitamin,hair and nails vitamin,and 2 calcium vitamins before bed that way my body has time to soak them all up overnight, its amazing how fast I lost weight doing this I would like to get my dial weight and hopefully stop if I cannot I will seek help because this.is not a way of living I like, its a waste of food, and sucks but i have been fat forever tried everything and it fucking blows so good luck I wouldn't recommend this to anyone....