I don’t know. I’ve done rational and irrational things w/eating.

I’ve been told by a doctor that my symptoms were anorexia, but he looked at me and I was still overweight. I had lost the first 60 pounds rationally and slowly, the second 60 rapidly through a hack I won’t mention here.

I got so cold I couldn’t get warm. Double sweatpants, coats indoors, severe fatigue (I couldn’t walk more than a few blocks), brain fog. It took months of eating to recover.

I’ve recovered and regained that last 60 pounds.

I have a failed gastric sleeve that I got while manic.

I’m sick of the roller coaster that is my weight. I’ve been over 300 pounds, I’ve been under 200. All in my 40s and 50s when weight loss is supposed to be much harder.

I don’t know anyone in real life that has done all the things I’ve done or fluctuated as much as I have. It coincides w/my moods.

What about you?

[~Christina]

I deal with Anorexia.. Its in remission atm, but it can flip on very easy, Mainly if I feel I have no control on anything.

[Victoria'smom]

My eating disorder faded with an AP. My last T told me I have to diet and exercise to get rid of the weight zyprexa made me gain. Yeah, I left her partially because of that. My ED fluctuate I eat rather health when stable. I eat crap when depressed and whatever my husbands makes me when manic. So my weight fluctuates.

[invisibleboy]

I suffered with anorexia for more than 10 years but I recovered. I needed to go through a lot to pick up enough tools to recover for good, including redefining my ideas around what made me successful, accepting myself and allowing myself to truly express who I was, and had the fortune to find my life’s passion and make it my work, but the last one couldn’t happen until the previous steps were in place. I have been at extreme low weights and completely miserable, but at the time thought I could only be happy if I was emaciated. I’m so glad that’s over. I thought it would be a lifelong thing, that I would never recover, but it doesn’t have to be.

[UpDownAround]

My biggest swing was 62 pounds. I have lost 30 or more about 5 times. In a couple of weeks I will probably make that 6 times. Gain when depressed, start losing when hypomanic. I am too impatient to do it slow and healthy, though I do try to eat balanced meals at about a thousand calories a day.

[GoldenSnitch]

I’ve had past experiences with anorexia but I think that it’s all tied in with my bipolar. My mood seems to have an effect on what I eat, when I eat, how much I eat, etc. And I have all of the self-loathing and body image distortion that goes with an eating disorder but it could just stem from my extreme lack of self esteem.

[UpDownAround]

Originally Posted by UpDownAround

My biggest swing was 62 pounds. I have lost 30 or more about 5 times. In a couple of weeks I will probably make that 6 times. Gain when depressed, start losing when hypomanic. I am too impatient to do it slow and healthy, though I do try to eat balanced meals at about a thousand calories a day.

Kind of an incomplete thought. According to some schools of thought, an adult male eating around 1000 (plus two per week around 600) calories a day has an eating disorder. I would argue that he is too damn fat and knows it. When I am hypo, I feel skinnier than I am and when I look in the mirror I want to fix it right away.

[RedDawn]

A man eating only 1000 calories a day on an ongoing basis is disordered eating.

It's very hard to maintain nutrition at that level and metabolic function will be affected.

[99fairies]

I have a very unhealthy relationship with food. Always have. I am on meds that completely wipe out my appetite so I barely eat.