How to Tell if Someone Is Bulimic

Video Transcript

"This is Rachel with Nutrolution in Miami Beach, Florida. In this clip we're talking about how to tell if someone is bulimic. Now Bulimia is when basically people, it typically affects women although it does affect men from time to time but bulimia is when people will throw up their food or vomit intentionally after eating on a regular or a habitual basis and they usually do so because of feeling guilty because of eating too much and so it creates a cycle in someones life who is bulimic and basically there's one of the ways that you can tell that someone's bulimic, there's several ways. You can't always tell, but some of the ways that you can tell is there will usually be a fluctuation in weight throughout the course of weeks or months so somebody will, somebody who is bulimic will usually eat a lot and start to gain weight and then see this and start to lose weight. Another thing that happens is that they can vacillate between bulimia and anorexia and binge eating because these are all sort of part of the same sort of triad. So if you do know of someone who is bulimic in your life, definitely recommend that you get them working with a nutritionist and a psychologist to help save their lives in the end. This has been Rachel with Nutrolution in Miami Beach, Florida."