yes these are the thoughts that do create the eating disorders.

The road to eating disorders is

1. the person thinking they are fat and no good and if only they were like - anerexic, a supermodel, their best friend (whoever and whatever that person considers better then where they are right now).

2. Then after the thoughts sit for a bit popping up over and over again (usually at a time when the person doesnt feel good about their self) they start dieting.

3. as people start noticing the person is losing weight and comment how good they look, the person becomes even more strict on their diet plans limiting even more meals and then they start skipping meals all together.

4. Skipping meals and limiting food intake below what the body needs results in the body going into ration mode of storing the intake as fat for use when the body is not getting the right amout of nutrients

5. The person sees the addition of the fat and decides instead of looking at the nutrient levels limits food intake even more to the point of eating to satify th e hunger pains and then purging (throwing up so that the food intake does not go beyond the stomach.

6. Because the body now has no nutrients being brought in it starts fuelling itself by releasing the nutrients in the fat cells. Whe the fat cells are gone the body contues to gather what it needs but because the reserves is now gone the body's "food" is not breaking down the muscles.

It is usually at this point where people start trying to interviene and hospitalize the person.

Once hospitalized the person undergoes therapy and nutricianal classes to understand how and why they started thinking about not eating to begin with and how to plan meals to that they obtain the ideal physicians chart weight for their height and age. They are taught how to maintain that ideal weight not by limiting food intake but by actually eating more small meals more times a day so that the body does not go into the store food as fat for reserves, and they also learn how to regulate themselves on an exercise program best fitted for them.

I am a recovered anerexic and have been through such a program. It really isn't where you want to be. but since the first step - the thoughts - are there now is the best time for you to talk with your therapist, and family physician so that you don't continue down this road into a full blown eating disorder.