Does skipping meals count as an Eating disorder?

[Fallen_embers]

Does skipping meals count as an eating disorder?
Just skipping meals.
No over exercising.
No throwing up.
Just meal skipping.

I don't like the way I look, or my body. Some days I feel huge, others I don't really feel anything.
I have an obsession with weighing myself just to see how much I weigh. I admit I feel happy when it's gone down and it makes me paranoid when it goes up by 1lb. But I don't feel like it's an eating disorder.
My councelor says it is.
But I don't believe her.

[YesterdaysNews]

that would be considered an eating disorder because you aren't eating, technically it's starving yourself. sounds like anorexia
The term anorexia is of Greek origin: a (α, prefix of negation), n (ν, link between two vowels) and orexis (ορεξις, appetite), thus meaning a lack of desire to eat.
I think your counsellor is right, but I'm no expert. try talking to your counsellor more

[Fallen_embers]

Thanks for the advice.

=]

[ShatteredWings]

One of the main symptoms to be diagnosed with anorexia is an emaciated bmi (i think that's under 15.0.... don't quote that)

Skipping the occasional meal isn't necessarily bad in itself.

Being slightly concerned about your weight can even be healthy.

But, yes it can be one of the more outward symtomes of an ED


Two birds one stone here


Could your genes be responsible for it? I've tried researching it and I'm just getting so lost. I don't know how to help :(
No, genetics can't make you have an ED. IT's emotional.
Not able to give a coherent reply about the family situaion, or i would

[liveyoungdiefast]

Some days I eat the equivalent of six meals.

Some days I have three.

Some days I skip breakfast and have 2.

Some days I live on coffee and energy drinks and smoke a cigarette and don't eat at all.

Inconsistent eating is not an eating disorder. To the OP though - weighing compulsively is bad, if you replace your fat with muscle, you'll look a lot better and be a lot better fit but your weight won't change.

[ShatteredWings]

Note on above comment:
Compulsive exersizing can be just as bad

[Fallen_embers]

the only meal I eat is dinner, because I can't get out of that.
I almost see it as a game. Like how long I can go before someone notices and screams at me for not eating.
I hope it doesn't develop into something worse

[liveyoungdiefast]

If the reason you eat dinner is because "you can't get out of it" then that does sound like an eating disorder.

[Fallen_embers]

I hope it's not, I used to suffer from anorexia/bulimia, I don't know if they truely ever go away or whatever, but since being put into recovery I have to admit that I don't feel the way I used to about myself, its just this stupid skipping meals, I'm so paranoid that I'll slip up and be back where I was.
Since it's been under control it's like I have my head back, I'm no longer constanlty looking for faults in mysefl and others, and I really don't want to go back to that. I don't want to go back to feeling worthless.