Is this an eating disorder?

[alicia]

I've been noticing some weird eating habits of my friends.

She like "organizes" her food. I don't know how to put it.
I made her some fries and she like put the smallest to biggest all set up on the plate?
Then like I had made a salad once and she made sure she ate like all the cucumbers before the lettuce. Or all the carrots before the tomatoes.
And like we loooooovee food haha, who doesn't? And usually when I'm with her she like eats everyyything possible in my fridge, but lately shes been eating lightly.

Is that the beginning of an eating disorder? :S
Should I confront her or someone bout this? I'm really worried. Do you think its something I should actually be concerned about, or am I paranoid :S

[jma94]

No, that doesn't sound like an eating disorder. It sounds like OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, just incase you didn't know) I'm not going to type out the symptoms or anything, but that sounds like it. If you don't know about it you could look it up? I could be wrong. Is it only food she's picky with?

[alicia]

Yea just food.
And she like has weird eating habits.
Its just so weird like I cant explain it :S.
Weird patterns of handling food i guess.
But I did notice she doesn't eat as much.
And shes like always checkin out the nutrition labels
I think im just really paranoid, because she did have an eating disorder before, but I never knew her when she did

[Atonement]

She could possibly have compulsive behaviors over food that could be somehow related to an eating disorder, but most likely, the behaviors are just odd habits.

[MoveAlong]

it sounds like a strange habit. I guess it's ok that she's been eating lightly, but watch out if she doesn't want ANY food when you go out, or is offered, etc, because that is cause for concern. She should still be eating enough to get through puberty/grow/be healthy etc.
But this is just kinda weird, obsessive sort of thing. We all have these weird habits we do...this might be one she's developed

[krystalm]

i do that too. i have to eat all of one thing before i can move onto the next, like befroe i was vegan with fruit loops i eat all the reds, two by two, until there done, then move on to orange and etc. and etc. and i do it with salads and mixed vegetables and etc etc. i mean ... i have distorted eating, but i hate the term eating disorder ( i will use it sometimes) just because i think it's a symptom of things i deal with that are much bigger (pstd,depression,anxiety)

if i were you i would probably talk to her about it, because usually there is something a little more, and if she is like me, she probably obbsesses over food, starves or purges..

BUT if she does this with other things like markers, pens, showes, pants, whatever, then she just might be dealing with ocd.

[AutumnDae]

Did she develop the strange "organizing" habits around the same time as she started eating lightly?

Although I know several people who do things like this, I do it myself with some things.

Is it possible that she just wants to start being aware of how many calories she is eating, or what nutrients are in food? That may be why she is checking nutrition labels.