You know you have an eating disorder, can you identify when you are showing signs?

Regardless of how your body looks, eating disorders are a mental illness, and you’re still experiencing a lot of the symptoms. Being afraid of “unhealthy” foods, constantly worrying or thinking about what you eat, obsessing over exercise or being unable to go without it are all signs of disorder, especially if you’ve experienced an eating disorder in the past.

I knew I had an eating disorder when I didn't want people to see me, my clothes didn't fit and it made me happy. The biggest sign was storing food that I knew I was never going to eat, and the realization hit me when people close to me found all the food I had left to rot.

Avoiding food, getting rid of food through vomiting/exercise/laxatives, an obsession with losing weight or changing your body, habits such as cutting up food/hiding food, losing your period, feeling fatigued or irritable, rapid weight loss or gain, and a general insecurity regarding yourself, food, and weight. If these are going on for a consistent amount of time, you may have an eating disorder.

When you are obsessed with your body, you don't feel good enough, you might even hate/loathe yourself, you have low self-esteem and compare yourself to other people and have negative thoughts about yourself. Those could be some big signs that you have an eating disorder or are beginning to get one.

yes - and if you can see the signs, then try to identify your triggers or stressors as to why you would want to go relapse back to it.

Eating disorders are not always visible to others. You might be obsessing over the amount of calories in your food without being incredibly skinny. As others have said before, eating disorders are mental illnesses, so you can be the fittest gym-bunny and still have a disorder, if you are super obsessed about calories, fats, weight and how much you burn. Its "healthy" to not want to eat deepfried food 24/7 and choose the low fat over the high fat version, but it becomes an eating disorder when you feel uncomfortable if you can't choose those or when you start limiting your intake excessively (among other things, these are just examples). Maybe you could take some time and think about the signs you see yourself showing and consider if they are healthy or not, where they come from and what you're aiming at when you think like that? much love and support!

There are many symptoms and signs in which someone with an eating disorder shows. It is about how you feel and your relationship to food. When you eat something, how do you feel? What emotions do you experience when you eat something you like? What about something you do not like? Do you find yourself eating an enormous amount of food nonstop? Or are you ignoring your hinger signals when your stomach wants food?

You can tell when you eat less or more than your usual self, or an average of three meals per day,or even if you have been losing or gaining weight rapidly.

Unless it's proven by an experienced doctor, then you may not have it. If proven try dealing with it as doctors orders.

Picking at food, cutting food to tiny pieces. extreme weight loss. obsession over food and looking in the mirror, pinching excess skin. always making excuses about having eaten or when you will eat or what you have eaten. can't eat when other people are in the room.