Have you ever had an eating disorder?

Question

Many years ago I did.

Answer 1

When I was a teenager and I lived at home, my mum was a very negative person very hard for anyone to live with and the strain of it came out in me as an eating disorder. I started by starving myself and eating 500 calories a day but when the weight started coming off I was still feeling hungry so I lived on chocolate and mashed potato. When I gave in and ate properly I would be straight in the bathroom with my fingers down my throat. I went down to six and a half stone which is about three-four stones less than I should have been my mother used to say I made her sick when she looked at me. I stopped doing it when I left home, but first place I lived in there was a group of us sharing and I didnt get along with someone in the group they caused a lot of rows and I responded by back in the bathroom vomiting again. I met this guy who spotted I had a problem and he would make me sit down for half an hour after Id ate and he got me to have at least one decent meal a day and then I started to get my appetite back. By the time I was in my early twenties it had more or less gone away and Id recognised the triggers for it and once I understood what caused it I was able to break the cycle. But even now to this day if im worried or upset or stressed, I simply shut down and I cant eat. And I have to check myself and stop it before it gets into me again.
This is going to sound a bit sick, but its true: over the years, Ive had a lot of problems and bad habits and Ive overcome them all now - but I'll always say, of all the bad things I ever did, its the weight control that I miss because at the end of the day it gave me a sense of absolute control and power over myself and part of me enjoyed that. But puking up on a regular basis strips the enamel from your teeth, robs your body of nutrition and starving yourself puts a strain on all your internal organs. Its a stupid thing to do. But a part of me still wishes I was a size eight.

Answer 2

No not really. I did display some anorexic type behaviour when I was a teenager and got a bit psycho but I was nowhere near as bad as someone with a proper eating disorder. It only lasted a few months and I was able to stop myself without treatment. I think obsessing about food and the delirious state of starvation was just a convenient distraction from my emotional problems. Then one day I realised what I was doing to myself and was horrified I could treat myself so badly.

Answer 3

No, I never worry about those things. I'm not saying I don't have body issues - everyone does to a degree - and I'm not saying I don't get self conscious - I just don't punish myself in that way. I eat when I want to eat and I enjoy it.

I think body image is so in your face these days - and have been for a long time. I think girls are under a lot of pressure to fit into an acceptable physical category.

It's a shame - but it's good that you no longer have that problem.

Answer 4

Thankfully, one of the good things my mom taught me was to not pay attention to what the media considered attractive and that there is a difference between healthy and thin. That not all people are built the same.

No, I have never had an eating disorder, but I'm glad that you got over yours. Congrats. I have seen people dealing with that and it's tough to get over, actually it always stays with you....always have to watch what you eat to make sure you are eating healthy and not over or under eating.

Answer 5

The only eating disorder I've ever had is eating to much and not getting enough exercise.

Answer 6

I never though I had but I was too thick to realise overeating was a disorder, but I've changed it now and lost a lot of weight, George your so brave admitting that and hope in the future you can make young kids understand its not a good idea, well done.

Answer 7

Yes. Bulemia (I still have a regurgitation habit) and compulsive eating. Just make sure there's nothing in the house (almost literally at the minute) and then you can't eat it. I did think about going to the VG and getting some cream cakes but that would involve getting dressed and I'm going to bed now.

Answer 8

until quite recently i did. about a 18 months ago i was severly overweight (im 5' 11" and weighed 16st 10lbs, i'm 26 now) i started watching what i ate and exercising regularly, but it never seemed enough, around xmas time i had dropped to around 13st. yet i couldn't see what everyone else saw. in march i dropped to 11st and looked 'ill', people stopped telling me i looked great! instead they would ask if i was unwell, most urged me to see a doctor! i was exercising compulsively, every day, trying to burn more calories than i ate! this caused me to pass out more than once on the treadmill.
i am happy to say that i have those demons in check at the moment, i still hear them every time i eat or if i take a rest from training but they are getting quieter as the weeks go by.

Answer 9

I actual have an ingesting illness, it is not anorexia, i do no longer see myself as fat i will see i could look extra constructive with extra weight & i do no longer make myself ill or binge consume. I do in basic terms no longer opt to consume, I on no account, ever get hungry & can choose for days devoid of ingesting even a mouthfull. It all started approximately 3 & a 0.5 years in the past whilst i advance into so ill i advance into bedridden & did no longer consume for months, i've got eaten via fact then needless to say yet basically one snack sized meal or one sandwich on the main an afternoon & now I in basic terms can't consume I haven't any starvation or opt to.

Answer 10

i started answering this with a really long winded serious reply, but then the computer froze & i lost it all!
basically, i'm glad that i never had a serious eating disorder that lasted any significant length of time, and i can only hope that my daughter never gets one.
hope you're doing ok now
xxx