r/eating_disorders

Okay this may not be the right community to post, I already made a primary post but I have something to add involving ed

1. Unprotected sex for the first time tonight
2. He didn’t cum at all
3. Im not on any form of birth control

So, so far everyone is telling me that I need to take the pill, use condoms in the future, and that I can still get pregnant from precum.

I am coming to this community because i struggle with disordered eating and already tend to have late irregular periods. So do you think im less likely to get pregnant because of this? Im looking for answers because im scared and aware i kinda fucked up because we weren’t fully prepared. I wondering if this could affect my changes of getting pregnant. Does my lack of proper nutrition and meals effect this?? Please share advice if there is any. Im desperate.

Hi, I’m a 5’3 female and I weigh 118lbs. I get maybe 5000 steps a day? idk. I eat 800-900 cals a day, I feel physically sick if I eat more than that.

Any guesses why?

I also don’t really understand this, but I’ll eat like 700 calories and then gain weight. How is this even possible? Do I have the metabolism of a fucking alligator?

I have chosen to do my assignment on eating disorders, specifically on Bulimia Nervosa, because I myself used to struggle with my body image/weight and sometimes still do. So, I thought it was best to learn more about what I might be experiencing, as well as hearing about the experiences of others, to potentially help spread awareness in my school. So I've created a short form, which is attached to a link to gather some information and data. It would be greatly appreciated if you could please fill out the form, but only if you feel comfortable to. All the questions may be intrusive as they directly ask about eating disorders, so please fill out the form only if you want and are ready to. All responses are anonymous and will only be seen and used by me for educational purposes (Year 12 Health External Assignment). Thank you!

I’m a 28-year-old man, and I’ve been on the heavier side for most of my life. When I was around 10 years old, I was significantly overweight for my age, and I developed an intestinal condition that completely changed my eating habits, which led to weight loss. Because of that, my parents were always commenting on my weight, telling me I needed to lose weight and exercise. I think I grew up with a certain level of paranoia about my weight.

As the years went by, I developed a fear of being fat. I would feel offended if people didn’t see me as thin.

Over time, those feelings became a little less intense, but I remained constantly hyperaware of how clothes fit me.

During college, I met my now-wife, and throughout our relationship I gained a lot of weight.

To summarize, because this is already getting long: about three years ago I got really overweight. At the beginning of this year, I decided I had to lose weight. I started dieting and exercising, and I’ve lost too much weight.

The problem is that I’m afraid of eating. I’m afraid of consuming calories and seeing the number on the scale go up. I’m capable of going an entire day without eating because I’m terrified of gaining weight.

My relationship with food has changed completely. It used to be something enjoyable; now it’s something I fear because I’m afraid my body will change.

It feels like I can sense every single change in my body—if my stomach gets bigger, if my face looks fuller, if my arms change. I can even feel when my intestines are full. I’ve also been dealing with fairly bothersome constipation, to the point that I need to take laxatives every week.

When I look in the mirror, I still see the same man I was before. I get anxious, I yell, I avoid certain clothes, I look at myself in the mirror 20 times before leaving the house, and every morning I check myself shirtless and mentally compare my body to the day before.

What should I do? My last resort is reaching out to colleagues who might understand what I’m going through.

Thank you in advance for any advice or help

As the title question asks, can you be classified as having a binge eating disorder even if you're slim?

I don't look like the stereotypical image of someone with a BED and and wondering if my disordered eating would be classified as that rather than anything else?

Healthy BMI but go through phases where I snack endlessly to a ridiculous level. Usually choose ice lollies, cheese and fruit, and it feels compulsive rather than a concious choice or want.

Thanks

Everyone's always like oh youre so pretty but I hate myself. I always feel fat. no matter what I do or how much weight I lose. im almost 15 and over a hundred pounds but thsts so fucking fat my thighs are huge and I fucking hate food and I always exceed my thousand calorie limit and end up eating like two hundred more a day and then im so guilty and bad I dont want to recover or feel better I just want to be skinny and pretty.

Have been trying to fast for longer npbut my fucking parents always make me eat and I cant make myself throw up no matter how hard I try it's always just like bile or gagging.

If im not less than 100 by August I swear to god im done it's over.

In the economic state of the world right now, I believe that it is more than okay to have an eating disorder at the moment.

Every damn day shopping for food, cooking the food, over and over and OVER again and again and AGAIN!! Don't get me started on stressing and and deciding on what to eat, then when you put it in your shopping cart and glance at the price tag, it's more expensive than the last time you bought it like.

And even eating out is another can of worms with the prices, just go to the food bank to save money, but I personally feel guilty doing that as they're are people more in need of such services, so I guess eating disorder it is! ED's aren't even that bad when you get used to it, it's very economically smart and I've saved quite a considerable amount ever since establishing this ED in my life.

For some backstory I'm 16 5'2 female.

I've been restricting since about October 2025 only having 1,400 (on average) calories while being VERY and I mean VERY active and lost my period in January 2026. For 25 days I've upped my calories to around 2,200 and haven't been to the gym since starting to recover until today.

I used to be 54-55kg but when I stepped on it today I was 57kg (I always weigh in at the same time of day). Where has this come from, is it fat? And will it go back down, if so when?

I don't think I look bigger, especially round my stomach as that's my biggest insecurity although I know I'm not fat it's just bloat, which is HIGHLY annoying and I'm waiting for this to go down too but not sure to what extent it will go down.

So I have recovered from an ED, and have been since 2020. In this process, I’ve also learnt about myself and that I’m Autistic. I’ve noticed that, while I’ve come a long way in accepting my body for what it is, I still struggle with the feelings of fullness. From doing some deep work into my own feelings, the distress is so much akin to when I feel overstimulated. Finding this link has made me realise that the feeling of fullness leads to overstimulation. Basically, does anybody have any tips for somebody who is autistic for what to do when this feeling arises? I very rarely would say I ‘overeat’ per se, but definitely eat until I’m full.

Side note: when I was a child, I’ve had intense OCD tendencies related to a fear of vomit and vomiting, thus the feeling of fullness also reminds me of the panic I felt when I was younger.

Any advice or experience would be super helpful! Thanks (:

Like I try muiltple times with my fingers and I only gag and I go through the motion of throwing up but only spit and no food comes out? What am I doing wrong, is this related to how long ago I ate? I also have long nails so when I was trying to bomit my nails lowkey was stabbing my throat and it hurt so I gave up

IDK yall but compared to my family members I eat A LOT.

For example my younger sister wakes up at 2pm stays two hours awake playing videogames on her pc, eats a bowl of cereal and then nothing until dinner which consists of a very small portion, like one chicken leg and 3-4 spoons of rice. As she stays awake until 3am she may have a couple of cookies, id say 5-6 max (like oreos). BRO HOW ARE YOU NOT STARVING?? And she eats so slowly. And dont give me the intuitive eating bullshit I once tried to eat the same as her for dinner, even ate a little more and spent the next two hours feeling hungry asl. I just dont get how ppl can eat lets say a banana or even nothing for breakfast and call it a day. How arent you famished?? Do you not have hunger cues? I feel so guilty for this. And it drives my brain nuts, cuz everytime I feel like eating it feels like Im failling. Maybe Im just greedy asl.

Ok so i will keep this short i am using my sisters account cause she said that i can get solutions on reddit

So i am 16 f , and i cant eat , thats it , i dont feel hungry , i get lost in thoughts while eating , eating feels physically demanding .

My weight is 45 kg and 5 feet 5 inches ( bmi 16.5 , underweight ) , i had tuberculosis in my stomach when i was 6 years old but not now , i got it checked no tb

I feel very sleepy and tired depsite sleeping 10hrs a day , i cry a lot at the smallest things , get random body ache , and feel tired ....

Also i dont know how to word it but i have a weird eating habbits , like i dont chew using my molars ....weird ik , and i feel gag reflex while eating and just push the food down with water , that made gap between my upper and lower teeth , i got braces for it still have it , the gap is reduced but the habbit persists

Both my parents are doctors but refuse to get a blood check or thyroid check and say i should just focus on my neet prep ( i am in 11th ) , please help me , i feel very sucidal because of it and tired and done with life , i told my mom abt it she said its all in my head and i am very smart ( as in cunning ) and doing it to gain sympathy and all

PLEASE I BEG U HELP ME pleaseee , ik bad grammer and all ignore it pleaze

So do i have a eating disorder or any other health issue , because i dont think its anorexia ?

I am not someone who eats a big portion, nor who overeats sweets(although I do love them, and eat chocolates or icecream regularly, like once a day or once in two days).

However today, for some reason I had a strong craving for sugar, and ate four big spoons of Nutella from jar... At night around 9pm.

I am feeling quite a bit of discomfort in my stomache, and also feeling guilty. I have purposely vomited once in the past for a similar reason, but never did it again. But after eating big nutella portion at night, it suddenly came up to mind.

I know that it is never good to lnduce vomiting. But I can't help thinking that it would make me feel better, in a "less guilty" or "undid my action" way.

Is throwing up on purpose really that bad of a choice to make?

I have been getting SO many "big back" comments lately. Mainly from my nephew. Its so frustrating to hear, because most of the time I'm just eating a _little_ more than others.

Like. I'll eat a wrap. Cool. Whatever. Everyone else is having a wrap. I put a teensy bit more chicken or whatever on my wrap. "Big back. Oh my God youre such a big back", I swear to God it triggers me so bad it just makes me want to just put the whole wrap down.

I just really hate it. I can handle body shaming. I can handle "youre fat" and "lol are you eating two?". I can _not_ handle "big back big back big back" every time I eat a sweet or whatever.

Its just so frustrating and so triggering and. I guess I just needed to vent that? I honestly haven't discussed my ED much and I really don't want to say "hey, my 14 year old nephew, I have an eating disorder stop calling me a big back or it'll trigger me into starving myself to lose 20kgs" or some shit, lmao.

I just needed to get it out.

Big TW with GLP1 use:

I’m still scared of what can happen if i fall off my course of recovery, but i haven’t done much ED behaviors in almost 6 months, but because my type 2 diabetes came back (because i was giving myself adequate nutrition) and because i gained back a significant amount of weight over the last year because of eating “normally” i talked to my PCP about how my body dysmorphia is getting worse and tht when i was on the glp1 the first time around i felt so confident until i started using it as an excuse to restrict a lot more than the average user. I’m still speaking to my dietitian and trying to navigate that. I am honestly terrified of going back to res or inpatient if this gets out of hand. But I’m hoping my fear will help me stay in Check.

Anyone else going through a similar thing?

Side note: everyone knows about my ED and treatment history. The main deciding factor was that my diabetes had come back after giving myself adequate nutrition for 9+ months and that the previous GLP1 regime i was on completely controlled it.

So I (17f) have been struggling with various eating disorders since I was about 11 or 12, it's changed in symptoms and different specific habits but as of recent it's gotten worse than ever before. Since about the past year or two- it's gone from binging occasionally, restricting, and such habits - to full blown bulimia, this consists of extreme, thousands of calorie binges multiple times a day followed by purging(which is at the point my body does it pretty much automatically without even needing fingers to trigger my gag reflex) to the point of yellow, acidic bile every time. The purging has become so ingrained in my bodies daily routine that its gotten to the point I don't digest anything anymore, even if I were to be delayed or prevented for hours, my body simply doesn't digest like it used to, sometimes I can wait 5+ hours and still bring up things from then completely. In short- its gotten serious quick, I've gone from 170+ pounds to around100-105 in a year, and on top of that I've always been on the bigger side, so this weight is pretty much totally abnormal for me. My hair has begun to fall out, I've fainted on staircases hitting my head, get constant debilitating numbness and cramps throughout my body regularly, and have virtually no energy to do anything anymore. Im not ready to die yet, and though my bmi (around low 17/high 16s) is not extremely dangerously low, I can tell my body is shutting down, and that if I continue - I might actually die, but I can't stop. I have nothing I look forward to outside my binges and recovery feels impossible, nor do I feel "sick" enough to deserve it. I guess I just need support and advice, or to at least hear I'm not the only one feeling this way or going through this.

so I'm a figure skater right, my new coach told me there's a weight limit in the club and I would bees to reach it mid December AT THE LATEST! I'm 75 right now and 55 in the limit, she said I should aim for 52-46,is that possible?any tips? ​

i need help.

fir the past few weeks all i've been doing is eating and eating and eating to the point it actually shows. not even like binging more eating so much that i don't feel sick but it's still a crazy amount. i can't even suck in my stomach to the point of seeing my ribs/ hip bones well which is one of the things i could do. all my family enabled this so when i go to prom im going to look so bad.

does anyone know a way to get slimmer in 3 days (i have all the days free and idm crazy workouts, crazy amount of steps, unhealthy food relationships literally ANYTHING).