decemberist Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Hey ... I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this because I'm not quite sure if this is a physical or psychological problem (or no problem at all) but I think it might help me to get an objective opinion from people who do not know me in real life. I think I might have had some problems with my eating habits for a while and for most of this time I simply ignored it/pretended there was nothing wrong. But over the last few months I just feel like it got worse and I realise that there is quite a bit of a difference between what I think is normal and what is normal by conventional standards. There's not really much of a plan behind my eating habits and I usually just go by what I feel is ok ... which for me means that I always undereat slightly. I don't count calories or anything and it doesn't really matter to me what the content of the food is, I just don't like the feeling of being full. I want to be thin and I want to be hungry and I know how ****ed up this sounds. I have been aware of the fact that I don't eat that much but I never thought it was that bad. Then I started using this website which calculates your calories for you, just out of interest, because I wanted to get an overview over how much I actually eat, and I now use that every once in a while ... and according to this site I eat far less than I thought I do. Apparently I should eat 2100 to maintain my current weight but in reality I rarely ever get over 1300. There are some days where I eat more than that but then I have a few days where I didn't even reach 1000 calories. And now I'm just confused because I don't know if something's wrong or not. There are days where I realise that what I'm doing is neither normal nor ok but then there are days where I feel like nothing is wrong. It just changes all the time and I can't really make sense of it. Like, there was a time a few months ago where I cancelled plans with other people all the time because I was terrified of eating in public. And then there are times where I eat pizza without thinking about it much or where I eat a chocolate bar simply because I want to. I had a conversation about this before on a health forum and people there kept telling me that I have an eating disorder and just don't realise it. And I do realise that I do certain things which are not healthy but I don't want to starve myself, I don't take diet pills or whatever, I don't count calories and I basically eat whatever I like ... I just don't like eating much. I don't know how I am supposed to eat 2100 calories. Even if I wanted to - which I don't - I don't think I could do that. Can it be possible that some people just don't need that much food and that those recommendations are inaccurate? Would you say that I NEED to change something or is it ok as long as I feel ok? (sorry this got so long) Link to post Share on other sites
FitChick Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 Do you like ice cream? Add in a pint of Haagen Dazs a day. Eat a half a pound of fudge per day. You don't have to eat all of it at one sitting. If you don't like sweets, eat a cheeseburger and fries. This is in addition to what you normally eat. Link to post Share on other sites
amaysngrace Posted December 8, 2014 Share Posted December 8, 2014 If you don't like to eat in front of people and enjoy the feeling of being hungry then I'd say yes...you probably have an eating disorder. Link to post Share on other sites
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