What's wrong with my eating habits?!
Question: I don't think I have a specific eating disorder. I do think I have disordered eating. I get obsessed with my weight and certain "problem areas" and I stop eating, I restrict myself, I do that for a few weeks, and just as I'm seeing results, losing weight, just as I'm doing "good" (in my mind) I think "I can have a tootsie roll, just one, it won't hurt, I've done so well" and once that tootsie roll hits my stomache I can't stop eating. I eat and eat. Eat eat eat. Everything I restrict myself from. I eat pretty much nonstop for a week or two and gain all the weight I managed to lose again. I eat even when I'm full. Then I get depressed and hate myself and my body. Sometimes I eat normally afterwards. Sometimes I purge. I just don't know.
I'm not phsyically "anorexic" looking. I'm 5'6" and 114 pounds. I'm 15. Is this normal from 15 year olds? Is it just mood swings or something? Or is it an EDNOS?
Answers: I don't think I have a specific eating disorder. I do think I have disordered eating. I get obsessed with my weight and certain "problem areas" and I stop eating, I restrict myself, I do that for a few weeks, and just as I'm seeing results, losing weight, just as I'm doing "good" (in my mind) I think "I can have a tootsie roll, just one, it won't hurt, I've done so well" and once that tootsie roll hits my stomache I can't stop eating. I eat and eat. Eat eat eat. Everything I restrict myself from. I eat pretty much nonstop for a week or two and gain all the weight I managed to lose again. I eat even when I'm full. Then I get depressed and hate myself and my body. Sometimes I eat normally afterwards. Sometimes I purge. I just don't know.
I'm not phsyically "anorexic" looking. I'm 5'6" and 114 pounds. I'm 15. Is this normal from 15 year olds? Is it just mood swings or something? Or is it an EDNOS?
Sorry to disagree with you, but you definitely DO have an eating disorder, & you need to be under the care of an eating disorders specialist ASAP. i have struggled with bulimia & compulsive eating for over 30 years, & this is a subject I know a little about. You are doing untold damage to yourself physically & going along thinking you have it all under control, but you know that isn't true, or you wouldn't fall into a binge the way you do. Your body will try to compensate for the punishment you dish out, but it can only do that for a limited time--after that, the damages are permanent & you will have the rest of your life,however long that is, to deal with those consequences..Please get your family to help you get into treatment because there is help available. It will be the hardest thing you ever do, but the pride you will feel when you come back out the other side of this hell is beyond words..
Eating Healthy Foods, proper times, and right amounts is a Habit that has to be developed long enough so that is becomes routine and you won't think about the Tootsie Rolls, its like quitting smoking of Alcohol., It takes some work but I have confidence in you.
you have anorexia and bulimia in it's initial form. talk to somone or it'll get worse and you will die
steve's so wrong.
you're at a healthy weight, and at your age (i'm 15 too) you just don't need to lose weight. we're the same height, so i know you're not overweight.
at your age, your metabolism is just great enough for you to eat and not gain much weight. i do the same thing you do during wrestling season.
(i weigh 120 pounds, btw) hope i helped.
You are the textbook reason overly restrictive diets just do not work long term. You are very thin according to the weight you are giving in the question. Something tells me you are also very pretty and try to be even prettier. So far you haven't reached a destructive stage in your weight obsession but you are headed there. You seem to realize there is a problem or you wouldn't be writing, right? I strongly suggest you get counseling and try to focus on other things in life if you can't you have a bigger problem than you think. Much luck I just hope you aren't a future anorexic.Your weight isn't yet a threat to your health but it is very LOW. If it gets any lower, you will not be thin you will be skinny and Girl, guys do not like that.(if that can be an incentive not to lose more)