ok. ive told my story a couple times, but just cannot eat healthy! im 5'10 at 140 ibs. i recently just lost 75 ibs since late november. i was basically starving myself...but i do not think i have a complete ED...i might have a little bit of one, but i dont think its full-blown yet...i hope. anyway...usually the last couple days have been going fine. im not trying to lose any weight at all...just trying to maintain. usually i have a bowl of honey nut cheerios in the morning with skim milk...and a glass of low-fat choc. milk. for lunch i usually have a turkey or ham sandwhich on wheat bread, with some pretzels, and maybe a nutri-grain bar or a banana, and usually a bottle of water. then i come home and exercise. run for about 15 minutes, do some situps/pushups, then sometimes go out and play basketball or something else. for dinner i usually just have 1 serving of whatever my mom makes with a glass of orange juice or something like that. but it seems like every other couple nights...i just start binge eating, and then i go throw up for about 20 minutes or so...till i feel like everything is out. i dont know why i am doing this. i eat regular for 5 days...even though i dont gain any weight, i feel like i have, and feel like i look like i have. then i dont eat for 5 days. then ill binge...then start eating regular, etc. i need help lol!!!

I'm sorry this is so hard for you, and eating disorders come in different forms.
"Disordered eating" is the most common actually, where people don't eat "right" and the majority of the population is like this.
And an eating disorder is not about food and weight.
The "eating disorder" such as anorexia, compulsive overeating, bulimia, etc is a physical reaction to feelings and emotions your brain does not want to acknowledge. I cannot say whether you have an ed or not, but I can tell you that you definitely need to talk to someone before you develop a "full-blown" one, as you said. Once you get to that point, it is very very hard to get out.
I kow it's easier said than done, but if you eat consistently you wont binge. Starving your body will lead to a binge, and its a very vicious cycle.
Try to actually think about what may be going on in your life that could cause you to obsess with food, gaining, losing, taking up space, feeling "fat", etc.
Could there be an external factor that your internal world is trying to cope with?
Good luck!

I agree that there is always an underlying problem. For me it's my emotions. I've spent so many years trying to shut out my emotions that I've developed an ed. The binging helps to numb me so I don't feel anything and the laxative abuse is a way of releasing everything that's inside of me. It's a never ending cycle. One way to pinpoint what your underlying problems may be is to journal... preferably when you get the urge to binge. Also, therapy helps...you'll get to talk to someone about your problems and it's a great way to get feedback on some of your thoughts and decisions. I also agree that you should get help NOW before it gets any worse. :nono:

Are you depressed?

if not think about this.... in all the studies done ONLY people who restrict binge...

I am depressed and first went from anorexia then to bulimia and now I'm coe and at your same hight and weight... I went down to 100 lbs but then again I was never heavy... mayb 125... so your not alone with this .... I only rarely purge now... but when I do it makes me want to binge more so in the long run it's not doing any help.... AND you DO have a problem because this is NOT normal... and please get some help... I wish I did before my ed got this bad. The side effects that you don't know about are sooo bad .. makes it so you can never forget. right now you can change .... don't let it get bad .. PLEASE LISTEN TO ME.... I'll tell you some of the probs that comes from purging but until you go through them and see that you have lost total control of your body you won't completly understand

so here they are anyways... and there are more... these are just mine

sleep being controlled only by what you eat
bloody noses
punctured esophagus
not being able to get full without being reminded that your bulimic... because once you hit that full point you move around and it comes right up.
--- not alot with me but I swallow it and have to keep gome with me so my breath doesn't stink

lets see
oh the bloody noses some people get alot some people get little sometimes I get them for a week straight -- that happened this month... and this month I've only thrown up once. And am getting better with my bingeing ... but that is still bad.. there are soo many different reasons but there always is an underlying factor in why your hurting yourself... It might because you hate yourself because you ate sooo much ... but you have to realize that being full is what normal people do and becoming full wont make you gain weight!! IT's that excessive binging where you inhale whats around you anything around you thats concidered "bad" in your mind for your body (rarely do people binge on healthy foods) - but well I don't know I can talk about this for hours please get some help or have any more questions ask.!!

well today im going to a nutritionist to see what i need to have everyday to keep my weight the same.

good for you