Can you be thin and have a binge eating disorder?

From my knowledge i think so. You can have any body type and still have eating issues. Big or Small.

Yes, some people have high metabolic rates and/or exercise a lot (ex. athletes) leading them to be thin while still having a binge eating disorder.

Absolutely. There's this stigma around eating disorder which says that an anorexic/bulimic person has to be thin and a binge eater is definitely large. But that's not true. An eating disorder isn't classified according to how much you weight, but what's going on in your head.

Being obese and having a binge eating disorder aren't necessarily related, although you could say that they are in most people. You could have a higher metabolic rate than others or exercise alot which would prevent you from gaining weight as easily as another person with the same disorder. While it is good that you do not become dangerously obese through binge eating, it's not good for your body at all. So you should consult someone about it and get medical treatment if at all possible.

Yes, you can be any weight and have binge eating disorder. Just like you can be anarexic and overweight. You see, how much you weigh is only a SYMPTOM of an eating disorder and just like with physical illnesses, some people experience some symptoms but not others. An eating disorder is mainly catogarised by your thoughts, feelings and actions as it is a mental illness. For example, an overweight person may be anarexic even if they don't fit the stereotype of "looking anarexic" They may eat far too little or nothing at all as well as excessively worrying about their weight along with other symptoms. If they went to a doctors about this, yes the doctor may see that they are not experiencing the symptom of being "skinny" yet (but they may as the behaviour and illness continues and progresses) but would still diagnose them with anarexia if they were experiencing enough of the other symptoms of the disorder. The same logic can be applied to binge eating disorder. Hope this helped, have a lovely day :)

Absolutely. Whether you are purging or not, your size or weight has nothing to do with whether or not you have a binge eating disorder. Personally, I have binge eating disorder (no purging) and have had it since I was 13 years old. It's 10 years later and my weight has been everywhere from underweight to "normal" to overweight. Size doesn't/shouldn't matter. The real help comes when you talk with your therapist about where this behavior stems from, what triggers it, and what you can do to work on changing the behaviors. Recovery is not a short process, but it is worth it :)

Of course, people of any shape and size can have eating disorders. Some people may say things such as "you dont look like you have [disorder]," but they do not have any right to tell you what you are going through.

It's possible. Depending on how a person's metabolism works, they may burn the calories they would consume while binge eating quicker than others, and therefore stay thinner. Also, they could be dealing with a disorder that is combined with other things. If they are bingeing and purging, or bingeing and restricting, they would not gain that weight the same way.

Absolutely. You can be thin or large and have an eating disorder. For example, we usually associaye anorexia and people who have it as being very unhealthily thin, and although that is true often, people can be average weight or even a bit heavy and have anorexic behaviour.

Of course. Eating disorders are not about being fat, in fact, eating disorders are mental illnesses and most if them doesn't show as being fat. Anorexia and bulimia are the perfect examples of that.