Can you be an over weight anorexic?

How do you think some anorexics start out? Hence the obsession and self image of weight. It is extremely dangerous to fast and to be only consuming 200 cal. plus exercising! Most anorexics will become a phenomenon called “skinny fat” where you appear skinny but have more fat than muscle (your body eats muscle first because it has the most energy) and really high cholesterol. Soon the body will fail like this.

xox Sika

Just because you do not have anorexia, does not mean you do not have an eating disorder.

The DSM is slow moving and comes up with new diagnoses every 20 years or so (ok its probably less, but they really should move faster) and so it doesnt have an exact category for your disorder

You would probably be catagorized under ED-NOS, not otherwise specified…

That doesnt make it any less dangerous or you will not have the adverse effects that come with not eating. Your body needs proteins, fats and carbs not just for energy and fueling (which I suppose can be gotten from burning down your own fat storage) but for other things, like repairing, building, defense, it needs vitamins and other nutrients… You eat because unlike a plant, you cannot create your own food…

You are not losing weight because when you eat solittle your body is tricked into thinking you are going inot starvation mode and it will hang onto your calories. The best way to lose weight if to eat 5 or 6 tiny meals a day to trick your body into thinking it is getting regular food. You cant be an overweight anorexic. Anorexics can die from heart attacks. Talk to your parents and friends. They will love you for who you are.

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Info:

To be diagnosed as having anorexia nervosa, according to the DSM-I’ve-TR, a person must display:

Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (e.g., weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85% of that expected; or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85% of that expected). Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming obese. Disturbance in the way in which one’s body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight. In women who have had their first menstrual period but have not yet gone through menopause (postmenarcheal, premenopausal females), the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles (amenorrhea). Or other eating related disorders.