can fat people... Options

[Smarmosaur]

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

[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.