Do i have an eating disorder?

i was always healthy and fit just before my teenage years but then i started to over-eat because i was insecure.{silly , i knw now} i thought that i would get curves but instead i became very overweight. i eat anything and everything. even when I'm not hungry or the food does'nt particularly taste. i eat because that is what i do , its me. i eat a vast amount of food now i'm afraid that i have an eating disorder. i think about food and my body day by day and feel depressed. i feel that i have no self discipline or motivation to say stop eating. sometimes i'm in pain and can feel my stomach stretching but i continue to eat. please someone help me .

Hi

it's the same for me.
I'm so sorry
I don't know what to do for an healthy diet. help!

Same with me

It can be say eating disorder because i am also suffering with the same problem and my stomach stretch, now i have a belly fat and i am overweighted i am trying to find some good home remedies which helps me now i found one natural site www.mamaherb.com there so many treatment are given for overweight.

Sounds like binge eating...

Sounds like a mirror image of myself I have to say! I've been trapped in a cycle of binge-eating since my early teens. I obsess about food, and panic if i'm unsure as to where the next meal is coming from. 2 years ago, I finally managed to gain some control over my eating habits, and lost 3 stone quite quickly. Unfortunately, my over-eating seems to have returned, and I am piling on the pounds again. I especially lose control in the evenings, and will eat until I feel physically sick at times. I eat in secret, when bored, when stressed, and frequently feel ashamed and angry afterwards. On the surface I am a confident and successful person, with lots of friends and opportunities lying ahead of me. But I would say that I suffer from an eating disorder, even if it is not recognised by others. Issues surrounding food in my past, my overweight and insecure teenage years, and my impulsive nature combine in this strange and powerful addiction to something that should be a pleasure and necessity, not a source of frustration and obsession.


I think the best way to deal with binge-eating is by speaking to your doctor and getting some counselling / cognitive therapy to address the root issues causing you to binge. These are often unconscious, and we don't always realise what emotion is prompting us to eat. Keeping a food diary is also useful - write down what you eat each day, and if you feel a need to snack / eat when not hungry then log that in the diary and try to establish patterns. E.g. do you tend to overeat at the same time of day? Do you always eat after an argument? What stops you from thinking about food?

It seems ironic that I am able to give this advice, and yet am struggling again myself. What I do know though, is that it IS possible to change - I did! And I am now determined to do it again. Set yourself small, achievable goals, work out why you eat, don't feel guilty when you do, talk to people about your problem, and visualise the end point. Maybe it's how you will look. Maybe how you will feel. I want to reach a point where food is no longer my primary concern, when I can focus on other things.

Anorexia

Well, actually you described your problem by yourself. Overeating is a problem and you know that you are overeating.

Bulimia as my friend Gemma mentioned has different symptoms. Neither Bulimia nor Anorexia is your problem.

The best and shortest solution is seeing a psychiatrist, psychologist or a registered dietician. By the way you should keep telling yourself that your body is not a garbage, say yourself that "Im a healthy person" "I eat healthy food" "Im confident and I can choose what to eat"

Anorexia is another danger you should avoid.

Look at: http://www.Anorexia-Nervosa.org.uk

Cheers and keep your head up

Get help

Hi hun,

I disagree that you may have bulimia, due to the lack of self-induced vomiting, dieting, over exercising, and starvation. I think the problem sounds like it could be binge eating or compulsive eating, a less publicised eating disorder. I think you need to perhaps do a search on the internet to find out if there are any support services available and definitely talk to your gp. Counselling could also be beneficial. Please keep coming on here for support.

Gemma

I agree

binge eating or compulsive eating is what you have described hun.
balimia is what I had for a few years and yes I did binge eat but then made myself sick I ate becose I liked the taste of food but then I was so convinced I was fat and did not want to put weight on. the thought of the food i ate going into my stomach an making me bigger was a horrible thought..... so I would make myself sick.

on a happier note im over this now and im healthy this has caused me a few problems but nothing major. you can get over eating disorders im living proof. have a look at websites and talk to maybe a close friend? after you have faced upto having a eating dissorder you can then get on the road to recovery an see a doctor ...... I wish you all the very best with getting the help you need and I think your very brave and sensible for asking for advice =)
let us no how you get on !!
xxxxxx big hugs vickz xxxxxx

You really may have one

Considering what you wrote about your behaviour concerning food,I think you could have bulimia. The best thing you can do for your own health is going to see a doctor who will help you to manage and solve yr problem.
Sorry for my bad english, but actually I'm not a native speaker.

I disagree

ive had bulimia for a while now and am finding it tough to control, trust me hun you do not have bulimia as you are not gorgeing then making yourself sick.but what i do agree with the above is to go and speak to either your doctor or someone you are close to as they maybe able to help just by chatting to you. see the worst of bulimia for me is not only the feeling of gulit when i have eaten something, but also the fact that i have lost weight by eating healthy, now that im bulimic the weight doesnt come off like i thought it would so its pointless but im caught up in it still, i know that if i did stop being this way and ate healthy that i could loose the rest, i have lost no weight with bulimia some people do but not me

Help im scared

Im nineteen years old and have recently lost some one very close to me..... i delt wit this thro binging.... i mangaged to take control but wen i get down or stressed i binge recently iv been doing this and then making myself sick ive balloned to a 10st 11 dropped 2 a 10 ST 5 thro good eating but i still keep having moments of binging, do i have a disorder?