Do You Have an Eating Disorder?

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Do you get frantic around eating? Panicky?

I don't have any eating disorders.

Tim

I can't understand how it's possible that people like eating. For me it's only a gloom duty I have to fulfill, not much more. I like only several kinds of food. I find it tedious and boring to chew and swallow food.

I like crisps/chips (my country adopted that second name from Americans so I use only the name chips) and it's one of those few things I like to eat. My favourite thing to drink is Pepsi Cola - yeah, I realise it's not the most healthy thing in the world .

I do not have any eating disorders.

I enjoy a good meal - occasionally to excess. I'm not really overweight so I just have to be careful not to overdo it and I'll be fine.

I have ED. I am afraid of eating too much or my weight will keep going up and I get bigger. I wish I could eat regular again and always drop three pounds over night back to the weight I am every morning instead of three pounds heavier and I have only dropped a pound instead. If I eat lot of food, I feel fat and sick to my stomach and feel I have to throw it up to get rid of the weight.

I despise having to eat. I'm very picky and there aren't a lot of foods that I actually like. I really wish that I could just take a pill for every meal.

Yes I am getting help for it.

Yes! I am recovering anorexic and bulimic. I also suffer from severe BDD (Body Dismorphic Disorder). My rational mind knows that I am far from being fat. However, when I look in the mirror, the irrational part of my mind just sees a fat blob. I usually panic when I attempt to eat something, since I have a tremendous fear of becoming overweight. I am very strict when it comes to how many calories I consume in a day and I feel like crap if I miss a day at the gym. The thought of eating causes so much anxiety...that I become too nauseous to consume the tiniest bit of food anyway!

Don't have an ED, though I do have some emotional eating.

I just realized I ate almost three times the fat recommended for daily intake!! Normally I read package labels, but I missed the fat content on these plain cake doughnuts...

Um... I'd better go out for a bike ride or something....

I have ED-NOS. I don't get panicky around food. It's OTHER things that make me anxious and so trigger my ED. Food or the denial of food is how I have learned to cope with stress and anxiety, which of course is unhealthy and I've been working on this. In the past, I've gone through periods of anorexia and other periods of compulsive eating. It's hard to maintain a "happy medium" with food. Either I crave it compulsively, even if not hungry, or I am profoundly avoidant of it, even if hungry. I'm not exactly bulimic, though. I don't binge eat or purge when I overeat - I just eat too often. I can eat a well portioned, healthy meal, and then 30 minutes later I'll want to eat again, even though I'm not hungry. I've gone through phrases where I've been eating or having the compulsion to eat every hour of the day, although I didn't technically "binge." Then I'll go through months of being anorexic, where food because repulsive and I'll only eat certian things, like salads without dressing or plain chicken breast. There's been a few times I've went weeks eating only a cup of oatmeal or a bowl of Cheerios a day.

Right now I'm in an anorexic phrase that's been triggered by a lot of stressful things (I'm unemployed and job hunting is going badly, plus my dad's in the hospital and my closest friend's just screwed me over). For the past week, I've been managing it well, making sure I eat enough and eat balanced meals, even though my inclinations is to not eat at all. But today I had to go see my dad, deal with a problem with my student loans and make follow-up calls on some jobs I've applied for, so I kind of dropped the ball today. I've only had a coffee this morning, and even though I'm hungry right now, I don't want to eat anything because I haven't finished making all the stressful calls I have to today. It's like if I eat now, I'll fall apart and won't get these calls done, and when I try to get myself to eat, I compulsively "bargain" with myself like "I won't eat now - just get this stuff done, and THEN I can relax and have a healthy meal." Other people here who have EDs probably are familiar with this stuff and why it's not that easy to just go to the kitchen and get soemthing to eat. At least I'm aware of what all of these behaviors are.

Anyhow, gotta go make those calls so I can eat. LOL.