Eating Disorders and IBS
05/04/04 06:58 PM
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I was getting ready to graduate from High School and leave my crappy yet wonderful suburban childhood home for Bucknell University. I was still in a pretty bad relationship with a guy I'd keep dating for another year and a half, but life was basically good. I didn't have IBS yet, but my eating habits were pretty bizairre on their own. Still not sure if what I had counts as a full blown eating disorder, or if I was just a whacky and insecure teen. Either way, I was pretty darn skinny! All that garbage was kind of on-and-off from age 13 to 21. I've done some browsing on past threads and there seems to be a few of us who dabbled in the anorexic arts. I definitely believe there might be a link there -- something about getting our bodies used to extremely low-cal, low-fat diets, and then trying to resume normal eating. That's about when I got IBS -- right when I started relaxing about what I ate and stopped worrying that everything would make me fat. If nothing else, it probably made us fantastic IBS diet followers.
For those who have had eating disorders that resulted in IBS. Check this out....This is an editorial on a book from Ralph Lauren's niece.
This memoir about bulimia and its effects by Ralph Lauren's niece alternates between the gruesomely fascinating and tediously sad. Thirty-one-year-old Lauren, whose father (Ralph's brother) heads Ralph Lauren Men's Design, depicts in excruciating detail her odyssey through bingeing, purging, the debilitating sickness that ensues and her struggle to heal. Her story spans her life from the age of nine, when she's rejected by the prestigious School of American Ballet and subsequently embarks on her first attempt to starve herself into the perfect dancer's physique, to her torments as an adult running the gamut of traditional doctors and New Age healers as she tries to recover from a painful and depressing illness presumably brought on by her compulsive fasting, bingeing, purging and exercising. The pressure from her family to be beautiful and her alienation from her own body emerge as Lauren minutely describes her agonies over what she'll eat at each next meal, the clothing choices of everyone she meets and the intimate details of her bowel movements . This book raises the question of whether contemporary fashion standards pressure young women into the destructive behaviors of anorexia and bulimia. Lauren is intelligent, creative and a skilled writer, and she evokes empathy. She has a few encouraging epiphanies, as when, at age 30, she attends a Ralph Lauren fashion show and realizes, "The clothing is incredible as always, but who needs it?" The book's abrupt ending and dearth of conclusions, however, disturbingly portend that the reader may come away with more insights than the author.
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Edited by Aunie (05/04/04 07:07 PM)
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