How many of you have had an eating disorder?

Question

I'm writing a small scale paper. Most struggle with eating disorders and refuse to include some eating habits. Weight should be controlled by diet and exercise including 2 to 3 meals per day and healthy snacking (junk is fine, not in excess). I want you to answer this poll based on INTENTIONAL weight loss tactics.
 
PLEASE do NOT include things like: forgot to eat busy at work, misread the label took too many laxatives, spicy food makes me sick, but I really enjoy it, depression, because depression tends to make people not hungry.

If you have NEVER experienced an eating disorder please mark the option experienced by a relative, or friend.

Go anonymous if needed. I am really excited to write this paper.

MaxxiBonn · Accepted Answer

I'm 5 months recovered from anorexia.
While I've had issues with my body since childhood, I didn't actually intend to lose so much weight. I was actually really into fitness. Gotta get 'dat protein. Gotta hit the gym. Gotta set a new PR.
I don't even know what happened. I was just doing so much. I was depressed and now I look at what I thought was a perfectly normal portion size and I'm like, 'are you serious?'
Then, I lost my period and I got diagnosed with anorexia. My doctor sent me to the hospital when I had a heart beat of 26 bpm and was amazed when I told her that was normal for me.
After she diagnosed me, it kind of just stuck and then the excessive exercise and clean eating turned into full blown anorexia. As strange as it is, it was a relief to be too sick to work out. It was easier for me to not eat than have to count calories and macros. I enjoyed being able to rest instead of constantly thinking about work outs. I had such bad thoughts about my body that even though I grossed myself out with how skinny I was, I thought it was better to be skinny than a normal weight because at a normal weight I looked like a boy. No boobs, no ass. I thought I looked weird because of that. At one point, I desperately wanted to get pregnant so that I could EAT. I would have an excuse to be lazy and to eat ice cream and such. I went from being able to squat well over my body weight, to almost passing out and having heart palpitations just trying to get up a flight of stairs.
Now, I am recovered and still hate my body. I don't go anywhere. I actually haven't left the house in 5 days now. I just stay at home, clean and cook for my husband. I look for work because I want to work, but seeing pretty girls just makes me feel hopeless and I end up just wanting to run away because I feel so useless. I didn't finish school, can't hold down a job. I'm going to study online for a while as I get my head together. Maybe next year will be my year. I feel pathetic not working. I really do. But how can I do it at the moment when even a trip to the grocery store results in me thinking about starving myself again?

aamy811 · Accepted Answer

I did (and still do sometimes). No one ever caught in except a boyfriend I had but I would just go days without eating. But mainly it was just calorie restriction and excessive exercise. Because I was still eating a lot of people didn't notice I had an ED I didn't wen know myself until I took a quizzes and got like the second highest score. But I did start to stop because the guy I was dating noticed I'd go to the gym twice a day but then only eat a tiny bowl of food. I still do calories restrict a lot but that's out of habit

Klaatu51 · Accepted Answer

although i've lost nearly 150 pounds, and from 250 now i'm just 115-117. i don't believe i ever had an eating disorder... although my stupid mom believes i'm anorexic. :-/

Nsinger · Accepted Answer

I've played the game to see how long I could go without eating a few times, with no actual reason as to why.  The longest I've gone is 4 days.

Anonymous · Answer

I had one last year that started cause of depression at the time but it was never intentional, whenever I would have a bad day I wouldn't be able to eat without throwing up straight away, after a while I wasn't able to eat at all and I would have to force myself to even eat a cracker during the day, I could barely do that, even though now I can eat again if I get upset badly I can't eat again and I need to spend a lot of time being able to eat again, one bad day can mean weeks of not being able to eat. I have also taken a lot of tablets to help from doctors and been through hell with peoples comments to me about it when I couldn't do anything, weight just was dropping off me really fast and I dropped below a size 0 at one stage, still I can't fit into my clothes from before no matter what I do, I have been on weight gain tablets for about 11 months and I'm still below a size 2

Adaeze97 · Answer

During my early teenage years and as a child like around the ages of 11-15. I would go on crash diets or try to eat below 1000 calories. But in my late teens I started bing eating and purging afterwards, as well as excessive exercise. I became really Ill at one point after overdosing on laxatives and abusing corset training.
I've recently started getting help though but I still struggle a little with food.

Anonymous · Answer

I was hospitalized a total of 3 times in the EDU. The hospital takes away your sense of control. It's like one minute you have it, and then the next, it's completely gone. I remember feeling anger towards the staff that were trying to take the only thing that ever truly gave me peace. It becomes a sick cycle. My first time there, I had just been discharged from a psych unit in another state. There was just complete shock. The constant treatment i had to receive after inpatient caused me to relapse worse than I ever had. I am proud to say, I am healthy, and enjoying a life of fitness and nutrition. EDs don't last forever when you find things to control in your life in healthy ways. I now control my nutrition to the tee, and if it comes across disordered to some people, at least I can tell them I love myself, and i won't deny myself that love anymore. I go to the gym 6 days a week and my life is falling into place. A place i though it never would when i was deep in my ED

Laura1995 · Answer

If this counts, I was underweight at one point because I refused to eat. But I didn't do it purposely... My appetite diminished.

SailorMars · Answer

I was never diagnosed but I was exercising way too much (hours at a time) and restricting my calories.

saccharose · Answer

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