Exercise bulimia

<h2 id="symptoms">Symptoms</h2>

<p>Exercise Bulimia can sometimes go unnoticed because exercise is something that is seen as healthy, but just because a person looks healthy does not mean they are.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> Compulsive exercisers will often schedule their lives around exercise just as those with eating disorders schedule their lives around eating (or not eating). Other indications of compulsive exercise are:<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a>[<i>better source needed</i>]
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<ul><li>Missing work, school and other important events in order to work out</li>
<li>Working out with an injury or while sick</li>
<li>Working out secretly or away from noticeable sight</li>
<li>Becoming unusually depressed if unable to exercise</li>
<li>Working out for hours at a time each day</li>
<li>Not taking any rest or recovery days</li>
<li>Defining self-worth in terms of performance</li>
<li>Justifies excessive behavior by defining self as a "special" elite athlete</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Depression_(mood)/GDNFWm1L">Depression</a> or agitation when unable to work out</li>
<li><a href="/facts/Amenorrhea/axu8sS38">Amenorrhea</a>, the stop of a woman's menstrual cycle</li>
<li>Isolation from others while working out<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li>
<li>Lack of interest in friends and eating</li>
<li>Lack of sleep</li></ul>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/Overtraining/J8QGGCgN">Overtraining</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Anorexia_athletica/Jlrr65Kd">Anorexia athletica</a></li></ul>
<h2 id="notes">Notes</h2>

<ul><li><a href="http://exercise.about.com/cs/exercisehealth/a/exercisebulimia.htm">About.com</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061107092011/http://exercise.about.com/cs/exercisehealth/a/exercisebulimia.htm">Archived</a> 2006-11-07 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a> Exercise & Eating</li>
<li><a href="http://abide.ucdavis.edu/overexercise.html">Activity Disorders</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121013210926/http://abide.ucdavis.edu/overexercise.html">Archived</a> 2012-10-13 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Exercise Bulimia." ULifeline. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013. <http://www.ulifeline.org/articles/401-exercise-bulimia>. <a href="http://www.ulifeline.org/articles/401-exercise-bulimia" target="_blank">http://www.ulifeline.org/articles/401-exercise-bulimia</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>[1], 'Life Without Eating Disorders' <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/lifewithouteatingdisorders/overexercising.htm" target="_blank">http://www.freewebs.com/lifewithouteatingdisorders/overexercising.htm</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Exercise Bulimia." ULifeline. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Apr. 2013. <http://www.ulifeline.org/articles/401-exercise-bulimia>. <a href="http://www.ulifeline.org/articles/401-exercise-bulimia" target="_blank">http://www.ulifeline.org/articles/401-exercise-bulimia</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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