You know you have EDNOS when

[ED-me]

Saw this on another forum ages ago.

1. You starve all day, then binge when you get home, purge then eat a normall tea

2. You decline a boiled sweet from a friend because it has 25 calories only to buy 3 chocolate bars at the garage.

3. You fast for a few days, then eat normally for the next few.

4. Knowing that one day can be completely different to the next when it comes to food

5. putting on 5 pounds in 1 week only to loose it all the next week


Any more!!

[awake]

http://www.whyeat.net/forum/threads/...ENDOS-feelings...

[love0all]

When you dont binge so your not considered a true bulimic and you dont fit the weight requirement to be anorexic

[holsie]

You know you're ednos when you're too fat for help, but not fat enough to be anything other than 'normal'.
When it feels more like a messed up diet than an eating disorder because you don't do anything 'properly'.
When you wish you had a 'real' disorder because then people might take you seriously.

[bluedragonfly]

When you can relate to everything on the Anorexia forum but when asked your stats, you're embarrassed to say your bmi is totally normal.
Sometime i wonder, are all anorexics EDNOS at one time, since you're not specified as ana until you're underweight, but it takes a month or two for most people to reach this specification, so are you ednos until then?

[Lichen]

When you dont binge so your not considered a true bulimic and you dont fit the weight requirement to be anorexic

Holler at purging disorder!


When you briefly feel superior to anorexics and bulimics because disordered behaviors pretend to be under your control without a name for it.

[TxH]

When you can't say you have bulimia because even though you purge, a "binge" for you is 500 cals and you can't say you have anorexia because you have a BMI that is borderlining between healthy and overweight.

I read this quote somewhere on WE prior to actually signing up:

"EDNOS. We confuse people."

[Secret-Obsession]

... When you want to get help so go to your dr and tell him everything. And he refers you to an Ed clinic. Only to have the Ed clinic sat tge waiting list is long and they only accept serious patients/ones needing immediate intervention. Eg. Anorexics.

Sorry doc, I'll do my best to fit the criteria.

[believe]

1. When you restrict restrict restrict until dizziness floods your mind, but your BMI is normal and is stuck there.
2. When you "binge" on 2,000 calories of cakes/chocolates/cookies while locked in the bathroom only to NOT swallow them but spit each sloppy huge bite into mounds of dixie paper cups you purchase regularly and hide inside sacks, boxes, etc so no one looking in the trash will see.
3. After C/S your throat hurts not from B/P but B/coughing up mucus/food that's slid down from C/S.
4. Restrict and restrict until you BINGE w/o P all day Sunday b/c you know your body has to be tricked it's not starving.
5. People telling you they see your bones but your BMI is twenty-fucking-three and you just don't see how the bones sticking out warrants a BMI of 23.
6. Hating yourself when you have a 'snack' after work of 3 wheat saltines to avoid fainting after your hour cardio workout and feel you failed.
7. Not able to NOT eat dinner, but not able to purge after. Feel, then, like you can't do a damn thing right.
8. Telling your therapist (finally) you C/S and they say......oh, uh huh...... hum...... and ask anorexic questions which some answers are yes and some answer are no.
9. Yes we confuse people! Love that. So fitting, so fitting.

[insight]

1. When you restrict restrict restrict until dizziness floods your mind, but your BMI is normal and is stuck there.
...
7. Not able to NOT eat dinner, but not able to purge after. Feel, then, like you can't do a damn thing right.
...
9. Yes we confuse people! Love that. So fitting, so fitting.

These ones. So. Much.

Also, feeling fake all the time.