Have you (or do) have an eating disorder?

[sunandmoon]

Curious about the statistics of trans* people.

[Joe.]

I went for months where I would purposely binge on food and then throw it all back up. Was it an eating disorder? I don't know, I never told anybody. I'm the fat kid, if I did tell somebody they would laugh in my face and think I was joking. I don't know how to answer your poll, but that's my story.

[sunandmoon]

I'm bulimic about once a week, a few times a week, but a few weeks apart generally. I'd say it's enough to say it's *something*. It's definitely not nothing.

[suzifrommd]

Anorexic and binge eater in my 20s. Needed to work an overeater's anonymous program to get me back on track.

[big kim]

I skipped meals at school to stay thin.Just before starting HRT I fasted every weekend and dropped to 154 pound way to thin for my height.In early 2003 I ate 1 baked potato a day for a month,I lost loads of weight but felt horrible and started cutting again.I over eat these days.

[sunandmoon]

Ate too much yesterday, purged after. Not much came up. Today I'm only eating about 300 calories. I just want to get to 140 or 145 (i'm 5'9) and then i'll eat normally. I just don't want to wait forever :/ I have a problem.

[Tanya W]

Anorexia in my early 20's. No idea this was what I was doing at the time. Just started to feel a strange thrill/sense of control when eating as little as possible from day to day. Would blithely brag about this to friends. Six feet tall, I eventually got my weight down to the low 140s. This, too, was thrilling. Pictures from the time are frightening.

[suzifrommd]

A thought occurred to me reading these posts. When male bodied people present with anorexia, should they be screened for transgender as a possible contributing factor?

[Joe.]

A thought occurred to me reading these posts. When male bodied people present with anorexia, should they be screened for transgender as a possible contributing factor?

What makes you say that?

[suzifrommd]

What makes you say that?

Anorexia among males is rare (except those who need to make "weight classes" for athletic events).

My eating disorder is definitely related to my transgender. I perceived a thin stomach as feminine and attractive. I remember telling my OA sponsor that one of the reasons I needed to be thin is because it made me feel female.

In fact I got a sort of sick pleasure in the fact that I had a disorder generally reserved for women.

For someone like me, wouldn't it be possible that getting treatment for my transgender might be a way to alleviate the problems that led to my eating disorder?

[Joe.]

Those are really good points. Now that you mention it like that, I could see how the 2 could be linked. I recently met a young transgirl who used to have anorexia. It's a really interesting thought and I can see how they could correlate. I agree that it should be looked into. Thanks for bringing it up

[Natkat]

I don't have a eating disorder, But I do have rather strange eating habbits.
In some periodes I eat little to nothing at all, and in other periods I eat alot.
Usunally I dont eat much around the day and then I eat a big meal in the night.
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[Xhianil]

I'm gonna say other, cause i don't eat enough but it's cause i don't get enough food.

[Natalia]

I was always a bit overweight. I really ate all that I wanted and because of that I got almost an IMC of 30...

Since a few months ago I started a very restrictive diet by my own and each day I eat less. I am at the point I drink a quarter of a hot chocolate cup and a small slice of cheese as breakfast. My lunch is a small salad and a very tiny steak or chicken fillet...same for dinner...and it is over. Nothing more. I am very happy to be losing weight really fast...but I still see myself as a very chubby person. My family wants me to stop the diet, but I don't feel I am thin yet.

I hope I won't face any problem, as I am starting to eat each time less and when I eat what would be a normal sized meal I feel extremely guilty and feel like wanting to vomit...