Former bulimic: "Throw up in order to go up". Marcela Esalo Part 2 of 3 with Anh Le

In today's testimony we have been talking about Bulimia Nervosa, a condition which mostly affects 1.3 % of females, and 0.5% of males, but it is a condition where someone binge eats, and then purges (vomits) up all their food so as not to gain weight. Listener discretion is advised, as the content you are about to hear is intended for a mature audience only. The causes of Bulimia are unknown to scientists, but they know that it can run in families. Why
would someone torture themselves by being so obsessed with weight gain
enough to go through extremes of making themselves throw up all their
food? Are there severe consequences to this behavior? Yes there are. In our last show we had Marcela Eslao tell us about how her eating disorder of anorexia came from a past event of being sexually abused by a babysitter, that caused her to desire finding a way to have control of her life. So she responded to any negative stimuli by not eating, and suffering from Anorexia. Later on, that developed into bulimia, where she used it to gain positions in her high school cheerleading. later on she found that it opened up doors of success in her life, but today, she is going to share more about the dark sides of that lifestyle. Marcela, welcome back to the show.