Has anyone heard of “pancreatitis”!!!! I got this from drinking and not eating properly. This is a very uncomfortable sickness and can be life threatening!!!!! Please don’t be so desperate to lose weight, there are healthier ways of dieting!!!!!

While skipping meals to binge drink and lose weight is not a great idea obviously, this Susan Price doesn’t have all her ducks in a row either if she’s recommending the following:

“Price suggests eating a balanced diet with low calorie drink mixers like diet soft drinks with alcohol as a healthier alternative.”

Drinking diet soft drinks with alcohol gets you drunk faster, due to the artificial sweetners. You don’t notice how drunk you’re getting either because of the sweet taste. You drink more, and are trashed before you know it.

Not good advice!!

My sister was always overweight and a drinker. Then she found out she had type II diabetes. Now she chooses to drink instead of eat to control her carb intake. She has lost a lot of weight but her alcoholism has gotten much worse.

This is sooo sad….I am a “recovered bulimic,” and I can tell you that this new eating disorder is HORRIBLE! Most eating disorders occur during college years, with so much PEER PRESSURE to be thin, to be popular, to have a date, boyfriend,etc…. I had to hit “rock bottom,” before I changed my lifestyle and my eating habits. I sought counseling and professional help before I ruined my life!
Now these girls have to worry about NOT getting enough food and nutrients, but the alcohol can cause liver problems or even become lethal!

This fits my sister-in-law to a tee. She and I both battle anorexia, but she is/was replacing food with alcohol. I just thought she was an alcoholic. I still say she’s just an alcoholic that happens to have an eating disorder. Nevertheless, when I read this article, I thought of her. Interesting.

this si just stupid…why would people do stuff like that? WEIRDO

This is not new. We did this in college to save money, we wouldn’t eat so we could drink more at the bars. just another attention getting device. Jeez.

There are too many stupid people in this country. Wake up and smell the coffee freekin idiots!!!

I see this a lot with the women I work with. They will either not eat lunch or be very picky about only getting a salad with fat free dressing with a water- and only eat a fourth of it. They will then make the comment” this is the first thing I have eaten today, I am so full..hehehe” They then go to the bar right after work, and the next day tell me about all the shots, beers and mixed drinks they had, which sounds worse than that fourth of salad.

The funny thing is, they keep telling me how fat they are getting. They seem to blame it on the little amount of food they eat. Some times they will “splurge” and just eat a child’s size fry from a fast food place and a water. But that is all they eat, all day. They talk about how they need to quit eating fast food. Don’t they realize they are putting on the weight from alcohol?

I’m so glad I read this - it’s how I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day - by saving my points for alcohol - I was so drunk within a couple of hours that I literally almost passed out at the bar. We all laughed about it but it seems that it could become a serious problem if I’m not careful. It’s very hard when I’m used to drinking a certain amount and be relatively fine, but knowing how many points it’s costing me is causing me to give up food for alcohol - which I can no longer handle because I haven’t eaten.

This is nothing new. Take a look at any college campus.
-drinking instead of eating
-drinking excessively to throw up, not even digesting the calories from the alcohol

I would like to point out that men have just as strong of a tendency to do this too.

Ha ha! People have done stupid things throughout history. Why do we have a sudden compulsion to give each flavor its own name? Even though ‘drunkorexia’ is hilarious!! Keep it up ladies.

Maybe stupid, yes, but every smart chick figures this out real quick!!! In college 20 years ago, my roommates and I did this all the time! By 3:00-4:00 every Friday we were in the local bar hanging out until 6:00 or 7:00, then we would go home eat a bowl of rice krispies or what was small, sober up a bit and get ready to go to the frat parties and dance (exercise) and drink a unimart 32oz. diet coke with rum until 1:00am. We were all a size 6 (now that is = to a 2/4 in todays sizing standards) and we all had the most awesome big hair!!!! This was our one binge a week. Sat. was a quiet night with the boyfriends, and sometimes studying, Sunday, up early, laundry, library and more studying. We all did well and graduated. But 3:00 friday… watch out!!! We even opted to miss General Hospital for the local hang-out!!!

I know something about this…..as a drinker for many years, I wasn’t ever able to get the weight off. I even thought about trying the Atkins Diet…. how many grams of carbs could have a day? and I would consume that much in beer. I had to just give up drinking…..It’s a shame that in order to feel good about ourselves we have to get drunk, all the while adding more weight to our otherwise wonderful bodies. I dropped the beer can/wine bottle and this left me with a lot of free time to exercise. It didn’t happen overnight! It might be helpful to seek a doctor’s help….this could be a chemical imbalance that one isn’t aware of…..there are lots of antidepressants that can help with alcoholism/depression.

it may be spreading, but this is not new. my mother has been dead since 1990. i was born in 1956 as long as i can remember, my mom suffered from this desese. if she ate, she would make herself throw up. when she was hungry she would drink achol. the depressed get more depressed. and the cycle went on until she died in her sleep when she was 78 years old. when she was young the (wasp) look was in a woman’s waiste could not span more than a mans hands could go around. fashion has always dictated a womans size. while being too fat is unhealthy, also the thin suffer as well. fortunately as with our parents smoking habit…we my brother and i don’t smoke nor have the anerixoa/belema/achcol problems of our mother. my mother in law also suffers from this tho not the achoal she uses religion, as a way of keeping her mind off of food for fear she is getting fat she is now 78 years old and weighs 125lbs.

Asan approching(been circling for a few years now…) 40 year mark Native Floridian(Spring Break Capital of the U.S….),I have read several articles about this.There are quite a few holes missing in the stories/reports.Obviously,I grew up in a time where drugs/alcohol were just part of daily life of just about everyone.From teenager-hood,we all did this,guys and girls.Only to inevitably land in the nearest Denny’s or other greasy spoon after the inebrieation gave way to the munchies.Eating Disorders are indeed a VERY sad thing and I feel for those who suffer.Did we sometimes later embrace the porcelian god for our misdeeds?OF COURSE. Eating,or drinking too much of anything will get you a meeting with the Vomit machine.But,the point being in most of this is either you HAVE control of yourself or you DON’T,be it eatng,drinking or any other area of your life.In one article it says that for every 2years of a womans drinking it equals 10 years of a man.Considering that equation,I would have already ingested a 110 YEARS worth of alcohol…funny,I’m a perfectly healthy FEMALE who has a healthy liver,pancreas and all my other systems for someone my age.I’m sick of so-called medical professsionals who try to give a name for every flippin little thing just so they can scare the bejeezsus out of the public and get reimbursed from health insurance for this crap.The limit for being a so called “Alcoholic”in another medical journal is if you consume more than 5 drinks a MONTH of ANY kind.(just more money for the “rehab/DUI/DWI machine”.CRAP!I also grew up with another nifty word..EMPOWERMENT.You don’t have to bend to fashionistic B.S.Just be WHO you are AS you ARE and if the small minded little S.O.B’s you’re hanging out with/wanna hang with don’t like it..SCREW EM!And yes I still have a bra..never did burn that thing.Tube tops suck no matter WHO wears em.Be smart,we all overindulge.Just don’t make it a habit of everyday occurence.It’s alesson you learn VERY quickly down here where “permanent Vacation” is always around.And to the so called medical professionals who get their panties in a snit over this,GET OVER IT AND GET A REAL JOB and quit playing Chicken Little.The sky isn’t falling.FYI,Ive got degrees in bioscience,emphasis chemistry and cellular function.Dont drink n drive and DON’T BE STUPID ENOUGH TO FALL FOR TRENDY TRAPS!

I don’t know that it’s true that a glass of wine and “small lunch” has the same “points” values. I am a WW member and I drink red wine with my fiance quite often. One normal glass of wine has 2 points. Even the smallest of lunches will have about 5.

It’s silly to blame anorexic binge drinking on great weight loss programs. Especially since, the WW program allows for a certain number of flex points for such occasions where you’d like to indulge in fatty foods or drink a few without wrecking your daily points.

Unfortunately there has been a recent onslaught of “-orexia” terms that aim to define behaviors associated with eating disorders. More of a cultural phenomenon than medical term, these “-orexia” words don’t diagnose or treat an eating disorder, but they have brought to light issues that may otherwise be overlooked. For more glossary definitions & to stay educated about eating disorders, visit our CED Blog: http://eatingdisorder.org/blog/?cat=4.