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I am at a normal weight for my age & BMI and body fat percentage, but I still feel fat. I count calories and starve myself sometimes. After or when I eat something with a lot of calories or an amount I consider a lot of food, I feel guilty but I don't stop myself from eating it. I exercise excessively rarely but I am proud when I do. Some people tell me I'm perfect, thin, or too thin. I don't tell them that I think I'm fat. Nobody knows that, I feel highly embarrassed to tell anyone. I have wanted to be underweight. When I was younger I was underweight but then in 3rd grade I was at a healthy weight.
I used to not even think about fat or anything but now I think about it all the time. When I see people that are overweight I think fat. I measure myself (waist, hips,ect) when I worry I've gained weight. I can't stand wearing baggy clothes that make you look bigger. I always read the calorie content, fat gram, sodium ect. on any food I'm eating. When I'm in public, and I'm hungry like after a while but we are like in a store or car, I will not eat if people or looking/if the window is rolled down. Rarely I hide food & eat it really rarely. Rarely, I spit food out into my napkin & act like it was too hard to chew or I go to the restroom and get rid of it. I lie about how much I ate sometimes. I have really low self esteem/ body image is horrible. I compare myself to this girl, who is really pretty. My friend calls her fat because she considers herself (my friend) fat & she is a little large and she has called me fat but shes joking. I don't take it seriously. Once I was walking with my "friend" and some girl I didn't even know said I was fat (I think she said that, but I just acted like she didn't say it to me/ I didn't hear.) Also that day I had some guy I didn't know whistle at me. When I felt really bad I didn't eat a lot. Also I have a friend who starves herself, who I consider thinner than me. She calls me thin but her fat. Most of the days, except which I have school on, I skip lunch.
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replied December 29th, 2011
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Hi AprilInApril: I think you are or could be borderline Anorexic...I don't know your height or weight, but I do recognize your words...When you spit food into a napkin so you don't eat it or go to the restroom to vomit it up, then you have a problem...

My suggestion would be for you to follow a caloried diet...One that is structured for all the healthy food that you need...It will probably be around 2,000 calories...Eat according to this...Consume all these right food and do your normal exercise...Don't alter it or eat less...This would be what health experts advice you is your calorie count needed per day...If you falter on this and start convincing yourself that it is too much to eat and you don't need it then go to Step 2....That being:

Check to see if your school has a school counselor who may give you some advice on fighting yourself on this problem...If not, tell your parents how you feel about yourself and what it is that you are fighting...Believe me, this could get real big and you must get it under control....I think you are a very wise young lady to recognize it at this age...Good luck...Take care...

Caroline
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replied January 1st, 2012
Thank you you take care too Smile This really helped
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