☀ Forum Terminology & Abbreviations ☀

[Chew]

Welcome to WE, Are you Ana, Mia or EDNOS & new to ED & Self-Help forums? Or are you just new to this forum? did you understand all of that? If not, this may help you . x

Abbreviations:

• WE - WhyEat.net.
• ED - Eating Disorder.
• EDNOS - Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.
• Ana - Anorexia Nervosa, Anorexic, Anoretic.
• Mia - Bulimia Nervosa, Bulimic.
• BDD - Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
• BED - Binge Eating Disorder.
• BPD - Borderline Personality Disorder.
• OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
• SI - Self Injury.
• LGB, LGBT, GLBT - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual(, Transgender). A term referring to the gay community.
• ABC - Ana Boot Camp. (A form of crash diet.)
• Cal - Calories.
• C - Often succeeding a number and aso referring to calories.
• Pro, Pro-ED - Refers to the promotion of an Anorexia, Bulimia & EDNOS as a lifestyle choice rather than an eating disorder.
• Chewspit, CS, C/S - Chew food & spit it out.
• Pro-Ana - Refers to the promotion of Anorexia as a lifestyle choice rather than an eating disorder.
• Pro-Mia - Refers to the promotion of Bulimia as a lifestyle choice rather than an eating disorder.
• CW - Current weight.
• SW - Starting weight.
• LW - Lowest weight attained at current height.
• HW - Highest weight attained at current height.
• GW - Goal weight.
• GW1, GW2, GW3 - Goal weights in an order squence.
• UGW - Ultimate goal weight.
• BP, B/P - To binge & then go on to purge (see below for details).
• PSMF - Acronym for an extreme diet also known as 'Protein-Sparing Modified Fast. It is a high protein, low carb, low fat, low calorie diet. The idea being you eat lots of protein with a caloric deficit high enough to lose fat rapidly with a minimum loss of lean body mass.
• EC/ECA Stack - ECA is an acronym for ephedrine, caffeine, and aspirin. The combination is intended to give energy, suppress appetite, aid in weight loss, and help retain LBM. The most common ratio is 1:10:15, respectively. (Some people take it without the aspirin, thus explaining 'EC'.)

Terminology:
(Terminology & other commonly used words, Just incase you don't know.)

• Restrict - Usually used to refer to limiting ones caloric intake.
• Purge - Usually used to refer to self-induced vomiting but can also be used to describe other forms of rapid calorie removal from the human body, including but not limited to, over exercising, laxative abuse & anti-caloric-absorption diet pill abuse.
• Clean Purge - When one self-induces vomiting and they purge all that they possibly can out.
• Dry Purge - When one self-induces vomiting and they purge very little or nothing out.
• Binge - A very commonly used term that usually reefers to consuming an unusually large portion of food (or at least for the individual doing so), with or without control.
• Binge Mode - When the subject feels they have no control & they are almost being forced to, eat, eat, eat!
• Fast - One of the following:
• Water Fast - A detox diet where the subject goes through a long period of only consuming water.
• Classic Fast - A detox diet where the subject goes through a long period of only consuming water, coke, coffee, tea, squash & other beverages of low nutritional value & zero fiber.
• Juice Fast - A detox diet where the subject goes through a long. period of only consuming water & fruit juices.
• Liquid Fast - A detox diet where the subject goes through a long period of only consuming only the following, water, juice, coffee, soda, milk, broth & other liquid beverage.
• Strength Fast - A detox diet where the subject goes through one of the previous fasts stated above with the intent to improve their mental determination.
• Dry Fast - A detox diet where the subject does not consume food or water, dry fasting is banned on WhyEat for health reasons, if you attempt to promote or start a dry fast, warnings will be given, if you continue to break the rules, moderators will have no choice but to implement a ban.

[Chew]

Off-topic:
(Other stuff, you probably don't need to know.)

• PM - Private Messaging, A form of confidential contact on the forum.
• DC - Diet Coke.
• Troll, Trolling - A troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the primary intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
• Spam, Spamming - Excessive multiple posting of a message or substantially similar messages, including but limited to advertising.
• Flam, Flamming - Hostile and insulting interaction between forum users. It is usually the result of the discussion of heated real-world issues like politics, religion, philosophy and beliefs, or of issues that polarise sub-populations (Like our EDs). Internet trolls frequently set out to incite flame wars for the sole purpose of offending or irritating other posters.
• Flame War - Flame wars result when one or more users engages in provocative responses to the originally posted flam bait. Flame wars often draw in many users (including those trying to diffuse the flame war) and will most likely overshadow regular forum discussion if left unchecked.
• TW - Trigger Warning
• Breatharian - A crazy person who thinks they can live on air & sun energy, breatharians will stare at the sun for hours against every animal instinct. Breatharians who do not give up tend to go blind or die of starvation.
• Maccas - Australian for McDonald's.
  
  

MoonChew. x

This post is purely for informational purposes and I am not endorsing the meanings or use of any of these terms. All of this terminology is presently being used across the forum and those who have little or no understanding of these words may struggle to settle into the community and it is for this reason I have created this topic. But as stated previously, all of this information has been supplied for reference purposes only.

[Sapphire]

trigger = it is a sight, scent, touch, sound, action or lack of any of these or any combinations that causes us to react. ie eat, binge, purge, restrict, fast, cry, smile etc

thats what a trigger is to me, hope that helps some

[Noumi]

This was very helpful for me, I didn't know most of the terms before.

[Tyler3295]

Thanx so much for all you do for this community! Your definition and abbreviations will be of great help to newbies and to those who may be just new to WE Forums members. I offer one definition of trigger.

Trigger: something that sets in motion a course of events. When it comes to eating triggers, they fall into three separate categories: trigger foods, trigger feelings, and trigger environments.

[shortstack]

HA! I Think "balloon belly" describes bloating perfectly. It really does feel like your stomach has blown up like a balloon. D:

[Tyler3295]

Not only does it feel like it, but it looks like it! haha

Of course looking at it only gives me more of an urge to purge as it freaks me out and triggers the anxiety BS..

[niea<3]

you should add OCPD its Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. I have that and i use the abbrivation all the time... its nothing at all like OCD except for the similar name. But it would be a good one to add.

[lepeep37]

Pardon me, but another important abbreviation is one of the ED's I have, which is COE or Compulsive Overeating (Disorder), that according to Wikipedia, is:

"also sometimes called 'food addiction', and is characterized by an obsessive/compulsive relationship to food. Professionals address this with either a behavior-modification model or a food-addiction model.[1] An individual suffering from compulsive overeating disorder engages in frequent episodes of uncontrolled eating, or binge eating, during which they may feel frenzied or out of control, often consuming food past the point of being comfortably full. Binging in this way is generally followed by feelings of guilt and depression. **(Unlike individuals with bulimia, compulsive overeaters do not attempt to compensate for their binging with purging behaviors such as fasting, laxative use or vomiting.)** Compulsive overeaters will typically eat when they are not hungry. Their obsession is demonstrated in that they spend excessive amounts of time and thought devoted to food, and secretly plan or fantasize about eating alone. Compulsive overeating usually leads to weight gain and obesity, but not everyone who is obese is also a compulsive overeater. While compulsive overeaters tend to be overweight or obese, persons of normal or average weight can also be affected.

In addition to binge eating, compulsive overeaters can also engage in grazing behavior, during which they return to pick at food throughout the day. These things result in a large overall number of calories consumed even if the quantities eaten at any one time may be small. When a compulsive eater overeats primarily through binging, he or she can be said to have binge eating disorder."

[Girlinterruptedallthetime]

SH- Self Harm
SI- Self Injury
OP- 2 meanings: original poster or outpatient
IOP- Intensive outpatient
IP- Inpatient