disordered eating
Troubled food relationship
Disordered eating describes unhealthy patterns around food that don't meet clinical criteria for anorexia, bulimia, or other diagnosed eating disorders.
It includes chronic dieting, binge eating, purging, excessive exercise to compensate for eating, and rigid food rules.
The term acknowledges a spectrum of troubled relationships with food: Her disordered eating started as "clean eating" but became obsessive.
- anorexiaEating disorder, self-starvation
- bulimiaDisorder of bingeing and purging
- bingeBout of excess
- purgeEliminate unwanted elements
- starvingSuffering extreme hunger
restriction · food rules · calories · calorie counting · scale · mirror · body · body image · body checking · thin · control · shame · secret · guilt · fasting · obsession · weight · weight loss
- eating disordersanorexia, bulimia, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, pica
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