@elainaefird: Replying to @Sylvi everyone with an eating disorder eats. Even individuals with anorexia are typically getting in some food, even if it’s tiny amounts. Saying “at least they eat” reduces eating disorders down to the most visible behavior, but eating disorders are not just about whether someone consumes calories. Someone can be eating and still be profoundly sick, medically unstable and/or extremely obsessive. So yes, I do care because obsession with Whole Foods and being fearful of higher calorie food groups is disordered. Period.

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Katie :
"and her audience loves her" YES that's the problem. I never got more praise from people, especially people close to me like my mother, than at the worst points of my ED.
2026-05-27 15:08:07
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sfmoonfire
Lunarmoth :
I have recently lost 15 pounds (down 80 from my highest weight) and I am having problems with eating. I am afraid I will gain the weight back if I eat the wrong foods so I stick to my safe foods . I am making sure to eat more food, including veggies, protein, fiber etc so I am working on it. Luckily I have a good therapist and a husband who makes me eat
2026-05-28 04:22:01
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cw.044
cw.044 :
Any advice for people who struggle with fear of food and not necessarily the body image part? It’s very draining
2026-05-27 18:37:25
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gaara1991_
Alé :
I feel like once I lost 10lbs, after being in a calorie deficit I was beginning to start a bad habit, the fear I had to eat anything different than my usual meals. Even if I craved it or it wasn’t horrible. I didn’t want to over eat in fears of gaining weight again, I was over exercising and under eating. My husband had to sit me
2026-05-27 16:14:59
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kinzmiche
kinz :
Eating some food ≠ eating enough food 😪
2026-05-28 05:32:21
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king.dre95
Andrea :
…but she eats a variety of Whole Foods that contain oil. She’s not cutting out fats in her diet, just using naturally occurring fats that are already there instead of adding fats. By that logic, if I chose to eat foods without added sugars, it’s also unhealthy?
2026-07-01 23:19:33
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serena.lewis2004
Serena Lewis :
I have I would say partially recovered from an ED that I had for years due to depression from life situations. It got pretty bad to where I was like 80 lbs when I was in the military. Now I'm at 100 lbs which for being almost 5 ft 1 is not a bad weight. I will say it takes so much time, patience, and effort to work through EDs. Sometimes when people would judge me when I was trying to improve, I needed to hear that you know at least you are eating because I used to starve myself basically all day, only eat a light meal before bed and then go to sleep. I still exercise a lot but I did sports in high school and honestly exercise is therapy to me. For me, I think as long as I am at a healthy weight like I am now, I can keep up my exercise routine that I have been used to doing for years.
2026-05-28 15:46:49
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fletchersgirl
fletchersgirl :
I for sure had an eating disorder in my twenties
2026-06-18 14:33:45
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itscaitschaos
CAIT KAY :
bingo. my dr as a child told my parents "if she's eating let her eat it" and that there was a root cause to alot of my food issues. so snack cakes and popcorn it was!
2026-05-30 02:10:41
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shawks85
rosegold54 :
Ok, but Mustard is my favorite condiment though 😂.
2026-06-05 13:00:22
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baat27750
🎀 :
Go off queen
2026-05-29 20:37:04
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mishcapiche
Mish :
A
2026-06-01 11:20:16
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nickie778
*Nickie :
Preach!! ❤️
2026-05-27 23:37:15
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darishennen
darishennen :
there's other ways to get healthy fats in your diet without butter and oil.
2026-06-02 05:42:28
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serena.lewis2004
Serena Lewis :
It is very difficult to hear so much criticism when you have an ED. Especially when it is because of life situations like mine was because my dad had a terminal cancer which was so difficult to handle as a family and then I was in the military for a few years.
2026-05-28 15:48:13
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inbal0
Inbalush🩵 :
What about the oils from the meat that’s cooking?
2026-05-31 08:38:06
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usually.procrastinating
Em :
‘and her audience loves her’ yes, and my ‘healthy eating’ was also applauded and lauded by the people around me and online…. until i went into organ failure and almost died. i never stopped eating, and yet.. be so fr rn.
2026-05-27 07:07:48
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chickenz_koop
Chickenz_Koop :
Ok. I'll eat more butter for my brain development.
2026-05-28 01:01:22
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static_diamond
Static Diamond :
People don’t seem to understand an eating disorder is not just completely not eating. Even people with anorexia who do fast frequently aren’t completely not eating. Even at my sickest I ate pretty much every day, but it was so incredibly limited in variety and quantity. And I was technically eating, but I was barely functioning, completely miserable, and incredibly s*icidal.
2026-05-27 20:46:51
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hayyhihello
hayyhihello :
People just need to be honest. I normally have my first bite of food around 8pm, that is all I eat for the entire day. Some days I forget. I don’t have a hungry cue and feel it’s inconvenient to stop what I’m doing to eat. I know that’s disordered eating. Honesty can be a thing without judgement but everyone takes honesty AS judgement. That’s the problem..
2026-05-27 06:26:50
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magno493
magno493 :
Before I went to acute I was eating. Eating enough? Obviously no but I was still eating and malnourished and I was in a larger body.
2026-05-27 01:49:55
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mooniemushi
🌱mooniemushi 🇨🇺🇵🇸 :
most of the content of these items are extremely low in calories. red flag. placing so much importance on “maintaining weightloss” instead of understanding and focusing on how these healthy foods nourish us, red flag, disconnecting from the experience and art that is food, red flag.
2026-05-27 07:24:03
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www.science2
Matchgirl :
The problem is people apply character judgment to the topic of eating disorders. It is not an assessment of the person’s character. It is a HEALTH AND MEDICAL issue. Like any other health issue. People simply do not understand that.
2026-05-29 13:36:47
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clareavery
The Bendy Bitch 🦓 :
I tried to come from a place of being grateful to eat, I’m tube fed & offered a different perspective but I was absolutely shamed and bullied for my perspective 🥴 My behaviour is dangerous apparently 🤡
2026-06-01 12:09:59
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