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Disordered Eating vs Eating Disorders. The Truth
They’re more similar than you may think
I write a lot about body liberation and positivity. I try to encourge everyone to learn that their worth is not linked to the size of their body and re-establish a healthy relationship with food. Recently I received a comment on my article Why Diets Don’t Work In which I admitted my eating is disordered although I don’t suffer from an eating disorder. It said:
“Wait, what? You have disordered eating but not an eating disorder?
The fact that this person doesn’t perceive any difference between the two shows how far we have to go in educating the world about eating-related problems. So, today I’m going to explain the differences.
Non-Disordered/Intuitive Eating
Non-disordered or normal eating is the type of eating we do as babies. You eat when you’re hungry, stop eating when you’re full and eat exactly what you fancy at that moment with no thought of calories, weight or what you’ve already eaten that day.
I wish we all stayed eating that way with no fat-shaming, diet culture, or “this is the way you should eat”…
