What is called when...?

Question

What is called when you eat food, chew it, but instead of swallowing it, you just spit it out?

Answer 1

It's called chew-spitting, chew-spit, c/s. It's basically a hybrid of binge eating/ anorexia with bulimia. The idea that one can eat as much, or as little as they want, and it will not affect their weight because they don't swallow. I don't find entries in the DSM (Diagnostics and Statistics Manual) for psychological illness (yet), though it's sure to appear there soon.

This should primarily appear in the United States, where other eating disorders appear at their highest percentages. Persons engaged in c/s probably have had previous experience with binge eating, anorexia, and/ or bulimia. Predominately, females engage in this activity, but Males also may do this to control weight.

Binge eating, anorexia, and bulimia are pretty hard on ones body, so they may choose to resort to c/s which is much less harsh physically. However, psychologically it is still an impairment of judgment and should be treated by a eating disorder counselor.

I hope if your engaged in this type of activity, you'll have the courage to speak with a counselor/psychologist about this.


Here is an example of anorexia/chew-spit:

"I've been chew/spitting for the past 3 or 4 years now, and like you guys have all said before, it's so hard to stop. I mainly do it with cereal. It is really disgusting and I find that it makes me really anti-social because I often don't go out so that I can spend a few hours doing it on my own in the house. I've nearly been caught a few times and the idea of someone seeing me do it terrifies me because it is so gross. I used to be in counseling for anorexia and my counselor was the only person i told about it, but even then i still felt really awkward discussing it. I'm also worried that i do swallow some of it, as I make myself sick sometimes after and food does come up, so i think a small amount does go down which either puts me off doing it or makes me really conscious of how i'm chewing when i do it. I wish I could stop because despite being really disgusting, it's also very expensive when you do it each day and i'm sick of being so sneaky and secretive with food!"




Here is an example of binge eating/ chew spitting:

"I have a strange eating disorder kind of like bulimia. Basically, I binge eat, but instead of swallowing the food, I chew it and spit it out. Sometimes, I will go through a drive-thru and order, oh, for example, two Big Macs, a Quarter Pounder, a Fish sandwich, two large orders of fries, a 10 piece chicken mcnugget, two apple pies, etc. Then I will take it home and chew up the food and spit it out into a bag. Or I will toast a whole loaf of bread and smother melted butter onto the slices, and then chew and spit out the toast. It’s gross. I want to stop, yet I cannot wait until the next time I go through a drive-thru or go to the store."

Answer 2

Stupidity.

Answer 3

Not sure but this is disordered eating

Answer 4

mental illness

Answer 5

oh god the guy above me cracks me up 'stupidity' ahahahaha

Answer 6

anorexic

Answer 7

STARVATION!