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By KRISTI EATON
VIEW ON HEALTH
Chevese Turner was 5 or 6 years old when she had her first episode of binge eating.
Even then, she knew it was odd that she gobbled an entire box of ice cream cones without any ice cream. She couldn't figure out why she did it, only that she immediately felt better afterward. Eating the cones plain without the ice cream had everything to do with her state of mind at the time and nothing to do with the nourishment or pleasure most associate with food.
As she grew older she continued to binge. Unlike bulimics who binge and purge through vomiting, starving, exercising, laxative abuse or other means, Turner could not make herself do that. "For years, I tried to become bulimic. I just couldn't do it," she says.
There were times where she would restrict her food intake, she says, which would inevitably lead to another episode of binge eating. So she gained weight. Along with the weight, she gained a sense of shame. She became obsessed with what her body looked like and tried every diet imaginable. Drugs and alcohol numbed her pain a bit, but her real drug of choice was food.
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