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Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: on April 20, 2008, 11:11:07 am
[Former deputy prime minister John Prescott has confessed to suffering from the eating disorder bulimia.

He writes in the Sunday Times that he used to gorge on food and then vomit.

He explains how he could "sup a whole tin of condensed milk", eat trifles "for ever" and eat his way through his favourite Chinese restaurant's menu.



Mr Prescott, who stepped down from Labour's front bench last year after ten years as deputy PM, said people would never suspect he suffered from the disorder and that some could accuse him of not being "a very successful bulimic" because his weight did not drop.

He said he began binging and vomiting during his years in the shadow cabinet in the 1980s, but the condition got worse when Labour came to power in 1997.

"So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full. (That's f-o-o-l, John)

"Then there would be a weird kind of pleasure in vomiting and feeling relieved."(My god! He was eating while at it with his secretary?) 

Secret eating

He continued: "I could sup a whole tin of Carnation condensed milk, just for the taste, stupid things like that. Marks & Spencer trifles, I still love them, one of my favourites. I can eat them for ever. (No you can't you fat turd, you'll die one day like the rest of us.)



 

"Whenever I go to Mr Chu's in Hull, my favourite Chinese restaurant in the whole world . . . I could eat my way through the entire menu." (Anyone seen the "Fat sl*g's" video?)

He speaks of trying to hide his bulimia from colleagues and his wife, Pauline.

"I thought, of course, I was being clever (well there is a first!), and no-one would ever know, but Pauline realised in the end. The signs in the toilet gave it away, and all the missing food." ]


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I think he did well to hide from us all. I wonder how much he ate and didn't throw up?

Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: naxos on April 20, 2008, 12:14:33 pm
Boo hoo John. I've had it sometimes too, but stuffing your face till you chuck up is normally called "gluttony".
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: smurfboy on April 20, 2008, 02:01:35 pm
Why don't you go and tell a manic depressive to pull themselves together while you're at it?
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: Jim@Chocolatemission on April 20, 2008, 04:05:11 pm

Wow you insensitive fools the guy comes out and admits something he didnt have to in the public domain and you just condemn him and put him down.


At least John Prescott has done more with his life than us sad bastards who whittle our lives away on a dead chocolate forum.
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: on April 20, 2008, 05:11:37 pm
Quote from: Jim@Chocolatemission

Wow you insensitive fools the guy comes out and admits something he didnt have to in the public domain and you just condemn him and put him down.


At least John Prescott has done more with his life than us sad bastards who whittle our lives away on a dead chocolate forum.

 

More with his life!?

How the hell do you know what the rest of us do when we are not on here?

I don't think he has had what I would call an illustrious career.

Still if you think punching people in public and shagging your secretary are worthy exploits.

Deputy PM?

Yes, even Tony Blair struggeld to find a post suitable to use his inimitable "talents".
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: on April 20, 2008, 05:14:22 pm
No he didn't need to come out with it. He felt he had to for what reason exactly?
"Look bulimics everywhere, see what a big man I am"
paulham2008-04-20 16:14:45
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: loulou on April 20, 2008, 05:36:56 pm
 Vomit 





Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: on April 20, 2008, 06:14:01 pm
Quote from: paulham
No he didn't need to come out with it. He felt he had to for what reason exactly?
 

 

 

[So why has he revealed this now?

Cynics will note he is about to publish his memoirs and has a serialisation deal with a Sunday newspaper.

His editors will have wanted to publish something more eye-catching than his account of trying to introduce elected regional assemblies.]


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7357430.stm

 

AH! Cynical old me.
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: loulou on April 20, 2008, 07:48:17 pm

A bit like when that woman from 'how clean is my house' was having her biography launched and she let it leak how she had buried her dead baby.

Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: smurfboy on April 20, 2008, 10:57:35 pm
Quote from: Jim@Chocolatemission

At least John Prescott has done more with his life than us sad bastards who whittle our lives away on a dead chocolate forum.

 

Although I agree the responses above were not exactly sensitive, I'm not sure it's helpful to dismiss everyone who posts on here as a 'sad bastard'.
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: loulou on April 20, 2008, 10:59:50 pm
Quote from: Jim@Chocolatemission

At least John Prescott has done more with his life than us sad bastards who whittle our lives away on a dead chocolate forum.

 

I don't think he has done more with his life than I have.
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: Jim@Chocolatemission on April 21, 2008, 12:38:57 am
Smurfboy - yes my condeming of us that post here was slightly harsh I admit but what I was really trying to get across was the fact we have done very little on a global scale affecting peoples lives compared to Prescott.
 

I just find the post Paul has so 'cleverly' put together at the top to be stepping over the mark - the point for him doing it is to highlight that eating disorders can affect anyone and that awareness that ED's occur amongst men should be raised and dealt with more sensitively...however judging by the responses on this board hes done little to do that.
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: oldspice on April 21, 2008, 08:00:10 am
Jim,
 

I don't think Prescott has done much on a global scale to change people's lives. 

 

And how do you know what any of us has done?  My job very much changes people's lives.

 

I take your point about Precott's bravery in coming out about his struggles but I question his timing.  In anycase, I have had my fill of celeb

'confessions'.  Most people have had secret battles with one thing or another at some point in their lives. But as ordinary folk we just get on with it and do not seek public sympathy.
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: smurfboy on April 21, 2008, 03:22:42 pm
I have found the media courage of the issue very offensive. Every paper and website I have seen carrying the story has used a picture of him stuffing his face with some tacky binge-related gag. John Prescott is a public figure who I'm sure is used to harsh criticism and the ways of the media - but what about impressionable young people who may be dealing with eating disorders? Do they really need to see it being treated as a joke?
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: on April 21, 2008, 05:01:13 pm
Quote from: smurfboy

 

 I'm not sure it's helpful to dismiss everyone who posts on here as a 'sad ba***rd'.

 Hey! I'm a sad ba***rd and proud of it. It's so easy to knock us just because we are sad......................and a b*st*rd.

 

 

 

 

Watch out, Lou will edit these posts. She is a bit of a b******d that way.
loulou2008-04-21 22:12:55
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: on April 21, 2008, 05:04:07 pm
Quote from: smurfboy
I have found the media courage of the issue very offensive. Every paper and website I have seen carrying the story has used a picture of him stuffing his face with some tacky binge-related gag. John Prescott is a public figure who I'm sure is used to harsh criticism and the ways of the media - but what about impressionable young people who may be dealing with eating disorders? Do they really need to see it being treated as a joke?

Indeed.

That's the papers for you.

My original post however is the model of decorum and decency.
Title: Prescott tells of bulimia battle
Post by: on April 21, 2008, 05:06:20 pm
Quote from: oldspice
Jim,
 

I don't think Prescott has done much on a global scale to change people's lives. 

 

 

I dunno. All those farts must have increased global warming.

 

"Set meal for 8, please. Oh! and just a diet coke, got to watch my weight."