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What’s up youtube my name is wendy and as you can tell in the title of this video today we are doing a q a um revolving around my recovery from laxative abuse i was abusing laxatives for about seven years um prior to that i was also anorexic and bulimic i was using locksteps because i was tired of being anorexic and bulimic i wanted to be able to eat as much as
I want while trying to remain slim and then i got tired of lacks of abuse so i attempted to quit and i’ve recovered from laxatives for about three years now three years ago i made a video that was pretty popular on my channel i’ll link it down below for you but it discussed how i was able to treat my constipation and so since then i’ve had a lot of people send
Me emails and dms asking tons of questions and so i wanted to actually share those questions here with you and hopefully help other people who are looking for resources as they’re trying to quit using laxatives and as they’re trying to recover so um without further ado i will just get into it i tried to jot down as many questions as i could so let’s get started
This is a difficult question um if i drink apple cider vinegar and prune juice won’t my body also build a tolerance to it and won’t i need to end up drinking more it’s a valid question because like laxatives we build a tolerance to it which is why we end up taking more pills i never had to drink more than a cup a day i had you know diluted apple cider vinegar
With water a cup in the morning and then at night i would have a cup of prune juice and i never had to take more than that my body eventually made a bowel movement on its own and i only um those juices when i felt like my body needed it i didn’t necessarily depend on it and have it every single day um so it’s hard to say if your body will build a tolerance turn
Up but for me as soon as i was able to you know make a bowel movement things became pretty normal um i didn’t feel like i had to drink the prune juice every day and i didn’t feel like i needed to increase the amount of juice so i hope that made sense i can’t find apple cider vinegar or prune juice in my country what else can i do some people told me that they
Were able to find actual dried prunes instead you can definitely do that over the past three years i found that eating sweet potatoes have really helped me too like cooked sweet potatoes i would air fry them into like fries or just baked potatoes and i right before bed and i found that to do wonders for me other people have told me that probiotics have helped them
Um but for me it’s always really just been prune juice apple cider vinegar sweet potatoes drinking lots of water um you can definitely drink prune juice i’ve also had people ask me instead of using lemons can i use limes in my apple cider vinegar yes definitely um how many pills were you taking i at my worst i was taking 13 5 milligrams of by what was i taking
Well there they were dulca lax pills i don’t know what the generic name for them um is but i was taking 13 dolce lax pills a day and those are five milligrams um so yeah for seven years guys so i started with one and then at the seven year mark i was taking 13 and i was able to recover so if i can do it you can totally do it did you gain any weight after your
Recovery how much did you gain yes i definitely gained um weight and i went into the recovery knowing that i was going to gain it because my body needed to recalibrate i was restricting food for so long i there was no way that i wasn’t going to gain weight um so i think when i made my last video i was in the high 130 something um and then i ballooned guys but
I don’t think it’s because i stopped taking the laxatives i think it’s because i had really poor eating habits too like i was so deprived of food that during my recovery i just ate anything and everything in sight so i had ballooned up to nearly 180 pounds um but again i don’t think it had to do with me going off locks i think if i had been more mindful of what
I was eating i wouldn’t have gained so much it probably would have been like 10 pounds i want to say um and to follow up with that people also asked me if i end up losing the weight yes i have i am not 180 pounds anymore i am in my low 130s like i fluctuate between 131 and 134 um so that’s where i’m at now and um i’ve been able to kind of maintain my weight in
The beginning it was just being more mindful of what i was eating portion controlling and then working out and then eventually i started doing the ketogenic diet for quite some time and that helped me too and now here i am making this video for you guys my battery just died um but i wish i had more questions for you guys i just can’t think of them at the moment
But every single person who emailed me or dm’d me had their own reason as to why they wanted to quit i had multiple reasons um they all just kind of stacked on i was tired of the lifestyle i was living i mean i was taking 13 pills a day and then clenching on to my stomach in the middle of the night because i was in so much pain and then waking up the next day you
Know attached to the toilet and my chest was in pain all the time it was bad and then i was afraid um because i knew that i was damaging my body and i was afraid of how much more how much worse it could get if i didn’t stop and i was thinking about my future and i want to be a mom and i wasn’t sure i’d be able to be one if i continued taking laxatives it was a
Bunch of things combined and three years later i am now successfully laxative free and i want to be able to share my success with you to let you know that there’s light at the end of the tunnel to be a resource to you to help you if you need me because trust me in those seven years that i abused laxative i had tried multiple times to quit and i failed multiple
Times and being able to recover has changed my life for the better and people need to know that people need to know that it’s possible so um you know what one thing that people have not asked me but i want to share with you is that um yes i can make bowel movements now but is my body perfect am i completely regular you know no i i still struggle sometimes um
Sometimes i go every single day and then the next week my body will switch up on me and it’s like eh maybe every two days there are times where it’s like i’ll go a whole five days and then i’ll make a bowel movement and it just switches off and it changes on me but i’m able to maintain my weight very well i always tell myself that what goes in must come out so
It never tempts me to go back to using laxatives because i know it to be true you know if i don’t go every day it’s going to happen every few days and if it doesn’t happen every few days it’s for sure going to happen in a week and i just cleanse so i know it’s tmi but i feel like it’s very important these are very important details to include for a video like
This so um i hope this video helps somebody out there um not sure if i was detailed enough even though some of those details were not very pleasant i do apologize um but if you have any questions feel free to drop them below or dm me i’ll leave my instagram down below um that’s the best place to contact me and if you guys liked this video please do give it a
Thumbs up share it with friends you know that might be going through this and please do subscribe to my channel if you like this kind of content um i only make content like this if i am encouraged by viewers and i if i feel like someone is going to benefit out of this i only do things if there’s some sort of greater purpose otherwise i never make videos because
I don’t like my content i only make it because i want to help others so the more people like the video or give me some sort of feedback letting me know that it’s helpful the more encouraged i am to put out more content to help you otherwise i’m just gonna live under my rock and watch tv but um yeah guys please do subscribe to the channel let me know what else
You want to see let me know what you want me to put out there to help you and hopefully i will see you guys soon bye
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Q&A: I Recovered from 7 Years of Laxative Abuse By Wendy Nguyen
