can fat people... Options

[Smarmosaur]

have eating disorders? not the over eating kind, but the opposite.

[espressive]

is this a serious question?

yes, they can. cause eating disorders stem from a negative body image. i'm not saying that all fat people have negative body images, but the ones that do may take it to an extreme level in order to lose weight (like anorexia or bulimia).

[batman]

obviously.

[technicolour]

Yes. But it can be from some mental issues as well.

[Joanne]

They can still suffer from anorexia and bulimia. You don't have to be super skinny to have those disorders.

Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes an eating disorder, characterized by low body weight and body image distortion, with an obsessive fear of gaining weight.

I know it says "low body weight" there, but notice how it also mentions "body image distortion" and "obsessive fear of gaining weight".

Bulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by recurrent binge eating, followed by compensatory behaviors, referred to as "purging".[1] The most common form—practiced more than 75% of people with bulimia nervosa—is self-induced vomiting; fasting, the use of laxatives, enemas, diuretics, and over exercising are also common.

[batman]

i was bulimic in high school and i wasn't some skinny bitch.

[Smarmosaur]

i was bulimic in high school and i wasn't some skinny bitch.

you really were?

[batman]

nvm

[Just_Dream]

Idk, it felt pretty good to let that all out.

Aww :/

Okay so I was never "fat" , but my boyfriend was chubby (lol every other year he'd get skinny, so he'd have this yo-yo fatness) when he was younger, but eventually he got taller and ended up kind of fasting a year or less before high school. Like he'd only eat a little bit His parents pointed out that he was getting chubby, and all the guys in his family are thin. He wasn't anorexic, just that he ate little or cut down on a lot of stuff. Eating disorder? Not so much, but it was definitely tied to his low self-esteem. But now he's thin. :O

[karmakiller]

There are a lot of people with anorexia and bulemia that know how to hide it well. A lot of their friends and families are surprised when they find out s/he had an eating disorder. They are more psychological than physical.

[Amaranthus]

Then, of course, there was a boy with the perfect body and the perfect personality and all of the above. We became friends and he taught me how to throw up.

Are you two still friends?

[hi-C]

I've never been thin and I had something of a mild eating disorder part of my sophomore year of college; dropped about 20-30 pounds in a few months. Just stopped eating, made myself puke a few times. A lot of it was tied to insecurity because I was off of a meal plan and had to feed myself and I was afraid I'd run out of money so I stopped eating (hell yeah, logic!) but, on some baser level, not eating and being hungry made me feel smaller.

But the psychological effects... I've never felt more like shit. This short story was written during that period.

I had this internship that year and my boss could see on my face that I wasn't eating, so he bought me lunch when I would come to work. If it weren't for that, I don't even know what would've happened to me. One of my roomates developed an eating disorder while we were in school and she almost wrecked herself. My boss' insistence on buying me lunch may have saved my life.

[batman]

Are you two still friends?

Sort of.

[*KINGdinguhling*]

Yeah, they can./