When is it an ED?

[FullyAlive]

Ok, so I've posted here before about how I eat etc. and I just want to know when the point is that you actually have an ED. I don't have an eating disorder, but obviously many people do and I just wondered when dieting etc was considered an eating disorder.

I tend to starve myself, binge and purge, or sometimes just purge without binging necessarily just purging after eating. The difference is I actually am fat so i'm doing it for my own good. I don't just think I am, I actually am. I look in the mirror and I feel consumed by hatred, I hate what I am. I suppose I just like the control, I like knowing that I can control what I eat and hopefully one day what I look like.

I dont think I have an eating disorder because I think I can still stopl it, if I really worked hard I think I could stop. It would be difficult but I don't know I think maybe I could do it if I really really tried. Therefore it's not an eating disorder if you see?

But anyway I've rambled enough, I just want to know where do you draw the line between dieting and an ED? How do you decide when it's got that serious?

[Fiction]

As soon as you're starving binging and purging it's an eating disorder.

People on diets don't make themselves sick, or limit their food intake to tiny levels. If you're eating under 1,200 calories a day that's considered unhealthy, and therefore i'd consider that starving yourself and part of an ED.

Everyone can stop their eating disorder if they try hard enough. The thing is most people don't want to try because it means putting on more weight, and that can be very difficult with someone with an ED as i'm sure you know.

I think you do have an ED Louise. Go and take a look at Georgia's sticky on EDNOS. I think it may be useful to you :)

[FullyAlive]

Ok i kind of see where you come from with the binging and purging not being normal.
But I think you're wrong about the starving i mean some diets do involve starving. What about Atkins? Or the ABC diet?
I'll look at the thread, but I'm not convinced.

[Fiction]

ABC diet is the Ana Boot Camp Diet. Ana meaning Anorexia.

[FullyAlive]

Oh you may have a point ><
fucking hell, I don't want an eating disorder.

[Fiction]

Then try and eat 3 meals a day. If you want to lose weight try some of the healthier diets out there (providing you are not already underweight).

[Syvelocin]

Diet is a horrible word. Just don't diet, that's not how you become healthy. Depraving yourself? Diets don't work. Oh, for a while they will, but can you seriously see yourself living like that for the rest of your life?

Don't restrict yourself so much. The issue most people have with eating, is not what they're eating, but HOW MUCH. Just decrease the portion sizes of what you're eating. You don't have to say, "I can't have this," and "If I eat that, I'll gain weight." A simple combination of exercise, a balanced diet (eating some of everything. Get your veggies and grains in, as well as protein, even and fat, because your body does need all of that. Just not as much as a lot of people give their body), and portion control will get you to where you want to be, while aiming for not losing weight, but to be healthy.

[FullyAlive]

Thanks Kathy it's just it's hard, I feel so bad when I eat.

And thanks Rith the how much thing really describes how I feel, I'll really try my best start eating less at meals rather than skipping them altogether.

Thanks :)