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

The Real Life Radio Show with Evangelist Anh Le

Hi this is Evangelist Anh Le, welcome to the Real Life Radio Show, and we are going to talk to Real People, who had real problems, but found answers in a Real God. Lately 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 how bulimia became addicting to her because so many praised her for the accomplishments she had attained in her career, everyone was cheering her on, she was convinced she was doing the right thing. She described how hard on herself she was, to the point of self punishment that she even once inflicted serious injuries to herself using a knife on her arm, practicing self mutilation. One day she couldn't gag herself to throw up anymore, and that was the day that she lost everything and she gave up. She was at the lowest of the low, and all those who were with her in the success were no where to be found. Marcela, welcome back to the show.