Does purging without binging help lose weight?

[Paul]

Let me preface this by saying that purging is a really terrible idea. It can cause serious, serious health problems if you keep doing it - your oesophagus just isn't designed to have stomach acids passing through it regularly and can get horribly scarred, can become cancerous, and a bunch of other things can go wrong. So please stop doing this before it becomes a serious problem.

That said, technically it would help you to lose weight because you're not absorbing the energy from the meals you're eating. You're also not absorbing any of the stuff you need to, you know, survive, either, which is another reason purging is phenomenally bad as an idea. You will - not might, *will* - suffer from a whole host of maladies which will, eventually, kill you if you keep it up.

It doesn't sound like you need to lose weight, in all honesty. What you need is to grow a thicker skin and ignore the bullies. I know that's really difficult, so consider plan b: Hitting them. Worked for me, but probably isn't for everyone. Bullies gonna bully. It is not your weight they pick up on, so much as that they perceive you as an easy target about whom they'll select something - anything to tease you one. Are you particularly bookish (my own school bete noire)? Smart? Stupid? Fat? Thin? Have the "wrong" colour hair? Too poor? Too rich? It doesn't matter to those guys, they just want to make someone feel terrible, however slight or inconsequential it might actually be. It will continue unless you convey the air that it isn't getting to you. In some ways then changing your weight is one of the worst things you could do, as it shows them they have power over you.

But if you're set on weight loss, there's a healthy way, and then there's this. To lose weight sensibly and keep healthy you need to eat fewer calories than you expend. But you do need to eat. Try, first off, swapping some of the more calorific stuff in your diet for healthier alternatives. Sodas for water, a doughnut for an apple. And from there just try to keep the number of calories you eat in a sensible range compared to the amount of activity you do - you'll probably want to be eating around two thousand calories a day, and no fewer than 1500. I recommend websites and apps like MyFitnessPal for keeping track. Also you might consider taking the advice of a medical professional, who can better advise you on nutrition.

TL;DR: Please stop purging, it might kill you. You don't need to lose weight, but if you really think you must, please do so in a healthy way, and stop with this path you've started down.