Bulimia is another form of an eating disorder that deals with issues of weight. However, instead of rapidly losing an excess amount of weight, they may be overweight or even a normal weight. Bulimia deals with the issue of binging and purging. This is when a person will eat a large quantity of food in a relatively short period of time and then use behaviors such as self-induced vomiting or taking laxatives. People who suffer from this disorder know that they have an eating disorder. They are still fascinated by food but they do not wish to gain the weight that the food will bring to them. As does anorexia, weight obsession of what they look like persists and eventually gets worse. A person who is bulimic can tend to have large fluctuations in their weight or the day before they binge they may fast. There are two types of bulimia; purging and non-purging. the purging type is when the person has regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas. The non-purging type is when the person has used other inappropriate compensatory behaviors, such as fasting or excessive exercise, but has not regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas. These behaviors normally occur at least twice a week. The most common cause of bulimia and anorexia is a trend of sexual, physical or emotional abuse. There is also a connection to clinical depression that can lead to these horrible eating disorders or a person may even become depressed from these eating disorders. Emotional problems evolve as these disorders continue to take over peoples lives where they become trapped and need serious help.
http://www.something-fishy.org/whatarethey/bulimia.php
Another direction you might want to go is to research some personal accounts from people who have suffered through these eating disorders.
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