Does anyone have an eating disorder?

[ryan_J]

I don't have an eating disorder but I have a very fast metabolism I eat a lot of wholesome food as well as meat and have a pretty good diet I'd say, despite perhaps overrunning my daily sugar needs sometimes but everything else is in great check. I'm very thin though, I'm in the 5th percentile for my age, I'm working on putting on weight and I thank god everyday that I don't look as skinny as my weight would suggest, I look thin but the little muscle I do have is very well toned so its not like I look ill or anything.

 

I also notice that I don't lose weight either when I go through a period of not eating as regularly as I usually do for whatever reason e.g. being extremely busy or being stressed or just not feeling hungry I still weigh the same weight which is good I guess because at least I'm not losing weight.

Edited April 10, 2014 by ryan_J

[EphemeralStar]

No, I do not have an eating disorder. I have an addiction to eating and the stomach the size of a cows.

[BuyMeTheMoon]

Nope, I don't.. But my cousin was bulimic for a couple of years, looked like a skeleton 170cm tall and 44kg. It started because she had a boyfriend who was skinnier than her, she told me she felt like a bulldozer when she was with him. Two years with bulimia, and 4 years after with big digestion problems.

[Saikou]

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Damn, that sounds terrible D:

[pokemon123]

IDK, but I'm really surprised to see many members that have the same disorder or w.e it is as me. Like eating a lot of food and not gaining a single pound, like I would eat a sh*t ton of fast food everyday and would always be that skinny kid. But I hate it when most people won't believe that and just assume that I eat nothing at all just because I'm skinny af, maybe it's because I have high metabolism but who knows, maybe it's something totally different.

THIS, THIS. This drives me insane to no end. I eat and eat but people just assume I don't eat anything at all but I eat a ton of junk food. I just ignore them and do not care. I guess it is because I used to be fat in second grade but I would much rather be 110 pounds in 7th grade then be 86 in 2nd grade. That is some serious weight issues right there. Glad I am normal. It gets even more annoyign when I show them evidence and data but they wave it off as if it is nothing.

[Tyla]

No, I do not have an eating disorder. I have an addiction to eating and the stomach the size of a cows.

I want to hug you.

 

My best friend back in the UK has an eating disorder. I say has, because they never truly disappear. She used to score for the sole purpose of suppressing her appetite. She must've been about 4 stone (60-something pounds?) and I remember the first time I met her I shook her hand and it was nothing but bone. Worst thing for her was the majority of her friends were enablers - also suffering food disorders. They'd have competitions. Horrible.

[018361]

I am obese. I'm pretty sure my situation is just due to lack of exercise and bad eating habits. I don't think my problem is really a disorder at all. I mean for a few weeks/months I got really motivated to lose weigh and I had lost about 60 pounds. I still want to lose weight and be thin, but to be honest I don't have any motivation and i'm a bit scared that I will " lose myself " and become someone i'm not because I have been this way since I was a child. I want to lose enough weight to be thin but to be honest, as some of you may know, my mental state hasn't been it's best lately. It's weird because I have moments where I feel great and am on top of the world and then a few minutes later I can become completely hopeless.

[EphemeralStar]

 

No, I do not have an eating disorder. I have an addiction to eating and the stomach the size of a cows.

I want to hug you.

 

My best friend back in the UK has an eating disorder. I say has, because they never truly disappear. She used to score for the sole purpose of suppressing her appetite. She must've been about 4 stone (60-something pounds?) and I remember the first time I met her I shook her hand and it was nothing but bone. Worst thing for her was the majority of her friends were enablers - also suffering food disorders. They'd have competitions. Horrible.

 

 

You're the sloth then holding onto my cow stomach. HANG ON FOR YOUR LIFE. IT'S GONNA BE A BUMPY RIDE.

[Graven]

I eat and eat and eat, but I can't gain weight... Does that count?

This is nothing strange when You are young.

If You'll continue on older age, things will be different.

[Saikou]

I'm 19, Graven. I wanna gain weight! X[

 

...Well, Muscle, actually...

[Graven]

I'm 19, Graven. I wanna gain weight! X[

...Well, Muscle, actually...

19 is a good age to start.

To gain muscle, You need healthy lifestyle and lots of patience. It takes years to get a great physique. You need to listen to your body, learn how it responds to different types of training. To find what works best for You.

Good luck.

[The Odyssey]

I can eat as much as I want and I still stay skinny for some reason. I love it, but I do wish I could gain some more weight to stay fit. The fact that some people can restrict food from one morsel of a carrot a day and still think they're obese, is beyond me. Not judging them, I just think they need to seek some advice.

Edited April 10, 2014 by The Odyssey

[mr quick]

Does compulsive eating count?

[Gummy]

I lately have been eating more junk than healthy food because I have lost control of my life.

[Shah Sam]

looked like a skeleton 170cm tall and 44kg.

 

sh*t, I'm 174 cm tall and 45 kg, and I can't exactly say that I'm as skinny as a skeleton.

 

 

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I'm one of those ectomorph bastards that can eat without becoming bigger.

 

 

The only time I gain weight is when I'm training, since I'm gaining muscles.

Edited April 10, 2014 by PaletoChickenCapo

[RiaJay21]

I ... yeah. Hm, might as well shake a few demons out. At the extreme risk of sounding melodramatic and all that.

 

I mean, I've dealt with body consciousness issues since I was quite young. Chubby kid. Very tall for my age (my guess is I had a growth spurt early because when I was 12, I just ... stopped growing taller). Hit puberty very early, plus all the perks that came with it.

 

Oh, and at some time or another, I was a dancer. Honestly, had I not been, I really don't think I would have developed an eating disorder.

 

I mean, I remember being in dance class when I was maybe 6, and wondering why I didn't look like all the other much smaller girls. So, yeah, I was aware of my weight. I was aware of my height. I was aware that something was ... off.

 

And, at some point, when I hit about 13, I discovered that I could maybe make it go away. By making myself throw up after meals. And of course, being young and dumb, this is exactly what I did. And, again, at the risk of sounding melodramatic, I was pretty much scum at this point in my life. Everyone around me was worried that I was seriously ill because I was throwing up so much. I wasn't great at covering my tracks. Maybe a part of me didn't want to, I don't know. My parents, my then boyfriend (my brother and sister were too young to understand anything), most of my friends, were trying to work out what was wrong with me. And I just ... kept doing it.

 

That's how awful a person I was at the time. I went for blood test after blood test at my mother's insistence, because she thought I was seriously ill, and I was too ashamed to stop her worrying about that. I knew what I was doing was wrong.

 

But. I was losing weight. People who had teased me about it were complimenting me. So I kept doing it.

 

My dad pieced it together and threatened me, so for a while, I was careful. I 'relapsed' in college, which didn't last long because my cover had been blown and there were some threats made. My eating habits were up and down for a while. I'd mostly skip meals (more threats made), instead of trying to lose weight the right way.

 

The body consciousness issues, however, have slowly started to fade as I've gotten older - and for three years or so, I haven't felt the urge to make myself sick. I also eat normally. I still have the odd 'oh, god, I look awful and fat in this dress', but actually, I'm comfortable and secure in the way I look, and just ... feel better. Part of that is surrounding myself with genuine people, who don't judge me based on the way I look.

 

I've also grown up. What I did was immature, and it hurt a lot of people I cared about. I've found many ways to abuse my body over the years, but ... late last year, something snapped. Why should I alter myself based on what other people think? I'm happy. These past six months, I have never felt better about myself and my life.

 

So, um, here's to self-esteem. I guess.

 

Edit - oh, for the record, I'm not saying the bulimia itself was immature, but the way I went about it definitely was.

Edited April 10, 2014 by RiaJay21

[Mr. Scratch]

I drink like a fish and eat enough food to fill a stomach the size of Australia. I don't see myself living very long.

[Crazyeighties]

I mean, I've dealt with body consciousness issues I had a growth spurt early because when I was 12, I just ... stopped growing taller). Hit puberty very early, plus all the perks that came with it.

 

 

I as well stopped growing early I was 6 or 7 and I was 4'4" when I had stopped growing, it was because of precocious puberty (being a 6 or 7 year old boy it was a very awkward time going through this ) I rember it like it was yesterday because it was a just before my birthday and the doctor put me on these god aweful shots called luperon that I had to get on my birthday. I don't know if it had anything to do with any of my issues but they caught it early enough to stop it. Then when I was 15 I needed spine surgery as soon as I had the surgery I grew a LOT 7" in over summer vacation like I said I don't think this has anything to do with it but I wanted to say you are not alone in going through some of that (yeah I've been through a lot)

[blitz]

Well, it's hard for me to gain weight. I'm like 5'5 and around 100lbs (note I'm female). I've checked with my doctor, and he says it's fine. I still eat a lot though.

Edited April 10, 2014 by blitz

[Punisher.]

I love food too much to deny myself anything I feel like.

As a result I'm a little over weight, but I'm happy, I'd hate to be someone who is obsessed by how they look, to the point that they skip deserts.

[SolidSnails]

Im pretty sure having a fast metabolism and eating disorder are two different things.

Edited April 11, 2014 by SolidSnails

[GrandMaster Smith]

 

 

I remember when I was on the swim team, there was this one guy who was literally as thin as a bone. I guess being skinny is good for the backstroke, since that was his event and he was good at it. I wouldn't know, though, seeing as I was always made to swim freestyle & breast stroke at competitions since I'm a wide guy.

 

Not fat, just wide.

Yeah, I'm pretty much 5'7" and cubic. My wardrobe is really suffering at the moment. Shirts are the worst. Try carrying an 18 neck collar shirt with a 31 inch waist. It's like wearing a potato sack.

 

I usually just wear baggy T-shirts and football jerseys, seeing as they help hide how wide you are, like this Redskins jersey I've got on. I don't know the specific size because I'm too lazy to take it off and look at the tag, but I have a lot of T-shirts, button-down-the-front shirts, etc. that're roughly about the size of this, all in extra large.

 

 

Come think of it, my arms are pretty wide.

 

 

You're not really abnormally wide, your build looks rather average to me. But jesus christ man I would chop that mop of yours if I were you. You'd be surprised at how much a clean haircut can change your appearance and perception of yourself to others.

[Mr. Scratch]

How would anybody recognize him then?

[GrandMaster Smith]

dat 'stache bro, it's all he'll ever need

[BuyMeTheMoon]

 

looked like a skeleton 170cm tall and 44kg.

 

sh*t, I'm 174 cm tall and 45 kg, and I can't exactly say that I'm as skinny as a skeleton.

 

Really?? She certainly looked like that.. Maybe it's different for girls though

[Panz]

I don't think I have a disorder, but I have a diet that varies like crazy, and I think that goes for a lot of college students. During the school year, I eat whatever is cheap and whatever is quick, and my exercise is almost nonexistent because of school work. But in the summer, I go on this health binge and eat a lot less and eat a lot healthier, and I exercise like crazy. Last summer I did start counting calories, so I think that might have been a little obsessive, but I was more interested in getting a lean and toned body rather than a skinny one. Generally, I'm not like that, though. I love ice cream way too much to diet seriously. Oh, and cake. I think Myron and Tyler would agree.

 

Eating sh*t everyday is great and all, but it's amazing how much more alive you feel after you start exercising regularly and start eating foods that your body is meant to process.

 

BuyMeTheMoon: That's a shame. My boyfriend is a bit thinner than I am (I mean, he weighs a good 20lb more, but his waist is just so tiny), and at first it almost bothered me a little bit. He treated/treats me so well, though, that I completely forgot about it after a few weeks. I hope he treated her well in your friend's case. Either well, that's a shame. It's hard to break out of the mindset that you're not physically good enough for the rest of the world.

Edited April 11, 2014 by Panz

[xVampire Fangx]

When I was a teenager I used to starve myself, wanted to be skinny and didn't realize that I was,
I guess you could say I was anorexic but it never got too extreme.

Now I eat whatever I want(except for at breakfast) lol still skinny too..

 

I like all the posts about people not being able to eat breakfast, I have always struggled to eat breakfast too

and if I do force myself to eat something usually it's not much either a piece of fruit or a slice of toast, if I eat too much at breakfast I throw up.

[K20]

i eat excessively ... and poo it excessively. not the best really as gaining any weight is VERY hard.

 

there was a girl knew who wouldn't eat anything during the day, maybe just orange juice that day. doubt her organs functioned to its capacity.

[Danz.]

Well, it's hard for me to gain weight. I'm like 5'5 and around 100lbs (note I'm female). I've checked with my doctor, and he says it's fine. I still eat a lot though.

I've become, since last December, like the male version of yourself, but I don't think I eat what's necessary to gain enough weight.

 

I mean, I'm almost 5'10" (176cm) and I started suffering from some kind of anorexia nervosa due to the anxiety that I've acquired since I failed in the Uni exams last year, seeing people who I knew and were younger than me joining the University in the course that I wanted to be in, Medicine, was something that really shocked me to the point that I simply started to eat less than I did when I was a 8 years old kid.

 

I lost like 14kg in less than 3 months and this lasted up until a month ago when my mom decided to take a picture of myself with my phone to show how terrible was my appearence with such weight, 52Kg(114.5lbs). It shocked me even more than the results of last year's exam since I looked like a starving dude from Africa, with the exception that I'm white and pretty(at least I used to be).

 

So I started a diet which is rich in protein and carbohydrates and, despite the fact that I was able to gain 4kg in a month, I still find it very hard to eat like a normal person, simply because I don't like to eat at all! Also, with the loss of weight I also started to lose any kind of sexual interest, which is THE WORST THING THAT CAN EVER HAPPEN TO A MAN!

 

Is there anything I can take in order to have hunger like everyone else?

 

 

 

No, I do not have an eating disorder. I have an addiction to eating and the stomach the size of a cows.

I want to hug you.

 

My best friend back in the UK has an eating disorder. I say has, because they never truly disappear. She used to score for the sole purpose of suppressing her appetite. She must've been about 4 stone (60-something pounds?) and I remember the first time I met her I shook her hand and it was nothing but bone. Worst thing for her was the majority of her friends were enablers - also suffering food disorders. They'd have competitions. Horrible.

 

 

You're the sloth then holding onto my cow stomach. HANG ON FOR YOUR LIFE. IT'S GONNA BE A BUMPY RIDE.

 

Oh, that would be great. Every girl needs something to be grabbed at, otherwise they are considered models.

 

That's why models aren't sexually attractive.

[Punisher.]

Try exercising, to increase your appetite, and improve your mental state and anxiety. Try Yoga, as it will help both