anorexic
Starving by choice
Anorexic describes someone affected by anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder characterized by severe restriction of food intake and obsessive fear of weight gain.
As a noun, an anorexic is a person with this condition: Her daughter had been anorexic for three years.
Loosely, anorexic describes anything extremely thin or underfed: an anorexic budget, anorexic profit margins.
Of or like bones
- gauntLean from deprivation
- emaciatedAbnormally wasted from hunger
- wastedUsed without good result
- thinSmall in diameter
scrawny · bony · underweight · malnourished · frail · cadaverous · haggard · pallid
Mental illness affecting nutrition
- bulimiaDisorder of bingeing and purging
- binge eatingExcessive uncontrolled food intake
- body dysmorphiaFixation on imagined physical flaws
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
starvation · hospitalization · inpatient · outpatient · recovery · relapse · refeeding · treatment
Media encouraging unhealthy thinness
- thigh gapSpace between inner legs
- runwayPaved path for planes
- modelRepresentation or paradigm
- size zeroSmallest standard garment measurement
diet culture · weight stigma · media influence · beauty standards · fashion industry · social media · comparison · idealization
Curative mental treatment
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- cognitive-behavioral therapyTreatment restructuring harmful thought patterns
- psychologistMental behavior specialist
- psychiatristMental disorder physician
mental health · depression · anxiety · obsession · fixation · compulsion · preoccupation · rumination
Limit on action
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- meal skippingOmitting scheduled eating times
- food ritualsCeremonial practices involving eating
- portion controlLimiting serving sizes
skeletal
Of or like bones
thin · scrawny · bony · underweight · malnourished · frail · cadaverous · haggard · pallid · wan
eating disorder
Mental illness affecting nutrition
- bulimiaDisorder of bingeing and purging
- binge eatingExcessive uncontrolled food intake
- body dysmorphiaFixation on imagined physical flaws
malnutrition · starvation · hospitalization · inpatient · outpatient · recovery · relapse · refeeding · treatment · diagnosis
thinspiration
Media encouraging unhealthy thinness
size zero · diet culture · weight stigma · media influence · beauty standards · fashion industry · social media · comparison · idealization · glorification
therapy
Curative mental treatment
- counselingProfessional guidance for problems
- cognitive-behavioral therapyTreatment restructuring harmful thought patterns
- psychologistMental behavior specialist
psychiatrist · mental health · depression · anxiety · obsession · fixation · compulsion · preoccupation · rumination · intrusive thoughts
restriction
Limit on action
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- meal skippingOmitting scheduled eating times
- food ritualsCeremonial practices involving eating
portion control · weighing · body checking · overexercise · label reading
- skinnythin, slim, slender, lean, skinny
- appetitehungry, hunger, starving, famished, ravenous
- dietary restrictionsallergies, vegetarianism, food allergies, veganism, vegan
- mental statesknowledge, conscious, mood, anxious, memory
- weightpound, pounds, kilogram, kilograms, gram
- medical descriptorsacute, chronic, mild, moderate, severe
anorexicobese
Extremely overweight, unhealthily so
overweight · fat · morbidly obese · corpulent · chubby
anorexicbulimic
Having binge-purge disorder
binge eater · gluttonous · glutton · overeating · overeater
- anorexia nervosaPathological food restriction disorder