could i have an eating disorder?

Question

im 15, 5'7 and im 111 lbs. just 4 months ago i was 127 lbs. iv been starving myself and making myself puke up my dinners. Its like there is a voice in the back of my head telling me im fat all the time and i can escape it. I exercise quite alot, today i did 18 miles on my bike, and burnt 204 calories on the treadmill. Could this possibly be an eating disorder? my friends think i have a problem but even if i do i dont want to get help coz i need to loose weight coz im fat. Even though my bmi is lower than my friends i feel 10x fatter all the time... please tell me what you think!

Answer 1

Yea, it sounds like an eating disorder, but ya know what?

So be it! Continue what you are doing...

Your coffin will be lighter when you die an early death :D

Answer 2

Your BMI is 17.4. Normal BMI is 20-25 for an adult. Looking at a childs (<17) graph, 17.4 is acceptable but low for someone your age. Although your present weight may be ok, you are not overweight and so you have a distorted body image.

It is also not normal practice to make yourself sick after food, and I think you know that. You also say its like there is a voice telling you you are fat, so you are thinking about it a lot of the time.

It is not easy to diagnose an eating disorder without meeting the person, but you have the signs of one, and you need to do something about it. I know you say you dont want to, but you have already passed one of the most difficult hurdles to getting better, and that is admitting to yourself that your body image is not normal, and that you might have a problem. So well done for coming on here and asking about it.

So what to do about it? Well, read what you wrote yourself, and think, does this sound normal? No. But as you said yourself, it is a disorder, a disease. Its not your fault, but you can sort it out.

Please go and chat to someone, be it a parent, GP (who will keep this confident) or a school nurse just to get some more information and to see what they think.

Good luck to you.

Answer 3

OK you do have an eating disorder. you need to seek psychological help. At 5'7 you should not be that thin. If you are starving yourself and puking up what you do eat. You have severe anorexia and bulimia. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by a distorted body image, which would explain why you think you are so fat when you are clearly not. It is all characterized by an extreme fear of obesity and refusal to maintain a normal and healthy body weight. Bulimia nervosa is characterized by the repeated rapid consumption of large quantities of food and then the perging of the excess food by making yourself throw up or using diarects. I would say that you have a combination of both. Both are also characterized by excessive excersizing like what you are doing daily. I'd suggest that you see a doctor and a psychologist and maybe even join a suport group. Don't worry, it's going to be ok. :)

Answer 4

You should not starve yourself girl, and the back voice at the back of the head is sign of an eating disorder mainly psicological, and you need to change that way of thinking. I'll be really honest with you but I have the same problem, I have this voive telling me that i'm fat and always looking at my body as a horrible thing, so I would sometimes skip meals and most of the times starve and exceed from exercise. It's not healthy not to eat, and have that vision of your body. I would recomend you to tell your mom first of all, and ask her to take you to a psicologist and a nutricionist. Psicologist to change that way of thinking which is really not healthy and actually really disturbing, and a nutricionist to help you to make up a diet but at the same time keeping up with the exercise. It could be really hard and it could be that your mom ould say "no, no" to the problem, but make her understand what you feel, and that you want to loose weight to be more comfortable with yourself but make her understand. Now I think that everyone has to love themselves and look at what's inside and not outside because thats what's real beauty and I know it sounds extremely cliché but it is true. Of course it is not easy if you are not satisfied with yourself, because although we always say that what matters is the thing inside the outside is also important and I understand you to the 100 %. My conclusion is that you talk to your mom and if you have sisters too, or if not go to the school's psicologist. It's incredible how are mind can control everything, inclusivly hunger. I wish you good luck, and keep up with the sports that is the most important thing.

Answer 5

It all depends how long this has been going on. Sometimes stress or family issues cause these problems ex: family instability or boyfriend/girlfriend break up.

Sometimes can be caused by ADD or depression as well. So you know yourself best if you are and have been doing it more than a few day yes see a doctor Psychiatrist or Psychologist. Try therapy first talk about what has been going on intimately to your professional. If that does not take the urge away see a Psychiatrist for medication.

Answer 6

no offense but i think you do have an eating disorder. if your 5'7 and 111 pounds and still think your fat then, i don't know but you don't sound like you'd be fat at all! you should do a search on google for child bmi, because adult bmi could give you the wrong results, and most child bmi's go to age 17. if you go on the first result that comes up (the one i use) after you give all the info., it will tell you whether you're underweight, healthy, or overweight.

puking up your food and then exercising is really bad for you, because your body doesn't have the energy it needs to feel energized enough to work out. just give up junk food and candy and eat serving sizes, the size of your palm, or for cookies it's usually 2 for like oreo sized and store bought cookies are 1. it usually says recommended serving sizes on packages by the ingredients. but not eating or puking up your food will cause your body to hang onto weight you have and it will bring out stored fat your body has to survive.

Answer 7

you need help and pretty quick before you do irreversable damage to your body. At what point do you think you will be 'feel' thin and anyway why is it so important to be so thin. I think you need to get some serious professional help dealing with the real issues to your bulimia. Many people like you have suffered trauma when they were younger, like being abused or just a crappy childhood and now your problems are manifesting into an eating disorder. If this is the case for you then get some councelling. See your doctor ASAP

Answer 8

Your weight is not high for your height, rather low. You are suffering from bulimia. I would suggest you have your mom take you to your doctors for a physical and then speak to a counselor to find out why you feel you are overweight. Today with all the video hype and models making rail thin women appear glamorous young girls are suffering more from eating disorders. I wish you the best of luck, and trust me, getting help now will save you from serious health problems in the future.

Answer 9

okay obviously there are a lot of seriously whacked people on this--yes, even Yahoo! isn't safe.
yes. you have an eating disorder; believe me when i say i can identify one; i've recovered from one, my aunt was anorexic, my cousin was anorexic, and my sister was too.
no one can fix this but you. only you. you can get hooked up to tubes and wires that will change your body. that's, in my eyes, cheating. do it yourself. it's going to be hell, but you have to.
you are killing yourself.
i cannot stress how important it is to go tell an adult right now.
i know that's the oldest line in the book, but right now, who gives a **** anyway? you really really need counseling right now. don't say, "Oh, i'll wait a couple weeks. if i pretend it doesn't exist it will go away."
that's what happened to my aunt.
and she died.
because she was anorexic.
get help NOW.
eating disorders don't just sprout up out of nowhere. you also can't decide to get them, anymore than you can decide to get the flu or a cold. something traumatic happened t you, didn't it? overload of stress--attention not coming? ignorance of other ppl? rape?--you need help.
now.
tell someone first before someone else does.

Answer 10

It sounds like you DO have an eating disorder. Throwing up alot hurts your espophagus and the enamel on your teeth. You just need to eat healthy AND continue exercising. Probably only do an hour of cardio and weights. Since you aren't eating, your body is eating your fat (whatever's left) and also your muscle.

Answer 11

It sounds like you need to see the doctor for a referral, when you lose a lot of weight and are not getting the right nutrients your brain does not function properly and it distorts feeling and images so you may think you are fat but in reality you are probably very underweight. listen to your friends.. why would they lie!!!