About Anorexia Nervosa?

Question

I was just curious, if you eat one little thing in a day and then eat absolutely nothing for the rest of the day, and this is a day to day thing, is that still classed as anorexia?

I mean.. you are technically eating..

(p.s: I am not anorexic nor would i like to be, just curious)

Answer 1

Anorexia Nervosa is a psychological thing (and there's nothing dumb about it.)  A person can be anorexic if they are five feet tall and weigh 250 lbs. It's not (usually) about weight. Most anorexics see themselves as very fat even if they are as a skinny as a rail and will change eating habits, exercise habits..they'll do anything to lose weight. The problem is that the lower their weight goes, the lower their goals go too. Anorexia becomes a vicious cycle of starvation, excessive exercise, depression, social anxiety, weakness and an inability to recognize the problem until the sick person is very, very sick. (unless someone else intervenes)   If a person is checked into a hospital or goes to a doctor or whatever and is found to be 15% or more under-weight, they are considered to be anorexic even if the psychological distortion isn't in the picture.

If this person you are talking about is eating one little thing and nothing else because s/he thinks s/he's too fat they could be anorexic or they could just be doing some crazy diet that isn't healthy either. If they're simply not hungry then they should go see a doctor. Really, they should go see a doctor about it if they refuse to eat more no matter what it could be from. The human body needs more nutrition than one little thing can provide.

Answer 2

I'm no expert - but I thought that anorexia was eating nothing to get severe weight-loss.

Maybe just some sort of dumb eating disorder. :)

If it's you that is eating like this, I suggest you start eating more!

I mean, its 6:56am here, and I've already had like 2 bowls of cereal. Sheeshhh ,

hehe

Hope my lack of knowledge helped. :D

Answer 3

anorexia doenst mean that you dont eat.

anorexia is when you fear gaining weight that you will do things u normally wouldn't to avoid becoming fat.

you may smoke, excersize obsessivley, eat less, skip meals, feal guilty after eating, dispise ur figure and so on.

if someone does wat u mentioned out of fear of gaining weight or to lose weight, then u are on the path to anorexia, yes