I have a very bad habit and possibly eating disorder. Can you please tell me what to do?

[Anonymous]

I think it is a type of eating disorder. I have been doing it for a week. It started off a month ago with something small, like just one cookie, but it has progressed.

So that I don't gain weight, I spit my food out. Cereal, pretzels, cookies, bagels, etc. I will chew them and have a cup next to me that I spit them out in. And then I put the chewed food in the garbage disposal or toilet.

I do eat (and swallow) healthy food though. A normal day is toast with avocado and sunny side up eggs for breakfast, almonds for a snack, a green smoothie for lunch, some baby carrots for another snack, and then salmon and broccoli for dinner.

Right now is the time where I am tempted to binge on the junkfood. It is 9:30 and I really want a bowl of cereal. When I eat the cereal, I do swallow the milk. I spit out the actual cereal. Instead of doing that I decided to write this and ask for help.

It has been working, I normally would gain weight from all those sweets, but my weight has stayed the same. But what I started doing is not normal, and very addicting. It is hard to not go downstairs right now and binge. I live with my family so there is always food by the way that my mom gets.

I don't want to stop because I love the taste of all these foods so much! I love junk foods. But I don't want all that unhealthy crap in my body making my skin bad and making me gain weight. Ugh...

[lexythelou22]

It will be nearly impossible to stop this type of thing cold turkey. Instead, slowly wean yourself of it. Try doing this maybe half of the times you normally would, and slowly go down until you only do it once a day, then once a week, etc. I suggest trying to find yummy tasting healthy alternatives for junk foods. I didn't realize how much I loved healthy granola until I had to force myself off of sweets.

[Asker]

thanks a lot.

[bcromartie]

See a doctor. Or don't. And slowly die.

Whichever.

[lexythelou22]

She doesn't spit out all of her food. She explains that she does eat real meals, she simply chews and spits junk food to enjoy the taste without the weight gain. I agree with seeing a doctor if this goes on though.

[bcromartie]

*reminds self to care what teens think*

[lexythelou22]

The fuck? I literally just gave a fact from the written piece. It in't "what teens think" when this teen contributed an actual point from what is written that you seemed to have missed. *Reminds self to stop trying to broaden the understanding of those who get butt hurt about being corrected*

[bcromartie]

You're bothersome.