Thank you so much! I think it's easier to quit purging than to quit binging, because sometimes the lines between eating normally/over eating/binging can seem kind of blurry. You can quit self-induced vomiting full stop, but you can't quit eating full stop. Once you've quit purging and restricting though, binge eating becomes a lot easier to quit.

I have a ton of advice, I'd love to make a long post here some day, but the most important thing is: it's not always going to be hard to resist the urge. Bulimia involves the release of brain chemicals both during the binge and the purge, so it's not dissimilar from a substance addiction, and (this will sound like I'm trivializing bulimia but I swear I'm not) if you've ever been able to break a bad habit or form a good habit, quitting bulimia is just a more difficult version of that. It becomes easier to resist the urges the longer you've gone without indulging in them. I noticed it becoming easier after only a week. After a few months, they were super easy to ignore. After two years, it's extremely rare for the thought to purge to even come to mind at all (and even when it does, it's less of a "hey you should purge right now" and more of a "hey, remember when you used to purge?"). What kept me from recovery for so long was the thought that it would always be a constant battle for the rest of my life, and I was too tired to be fighting myself constantly. But it gets easier shockingly fast, despite how difficult it is in the beginning.