Note: this site is under construction. Translation is in progress from French to English.
Deprivations
There is no strict difference between :
- eating healthy
- just eating less
- a weight loss diet
- anorexia
- bulimia
All of those are a form of eating deprivation done in order to lose weight. All of them are unhealthy. “Eating healthy” is an embellished word for dieting. It hides the fear of putting on weight. It avoids admitting we have to lose weight.
The continuum of deprivations
“Eating healthy”, anorexia and bulimia are on the same scale. Eating disorder are only an acute form of dieting. To slip from a diet to eating disorder is done easily and goes unnoticed : at first, you start eating more fruits and vegetables, then you start eating leass fat, less sugar, and globally less. Before you know, you are on a strict diet. Then come the cravings and binges. You have to restart it all, and you swear this time, we will firmly stick to it up to the end.
You have started an endless cycle of restricting and bingeing and, sometimes, you look back with nostalgia at those past times, when you used to eat without fear of putting on weight, without fear of the scale’s verdict, without fear of others’ judgement on us, on our plate.
Deprivation disorders
This site is about Deprivation Disorders. Only anorexia and bulimia are considered to be eating disorders. Here we place “eating healthy”, “eating less” and a diet to lose weight at the same level as other eating disorders.
All are on the same continuum : anorexia, bulimia, dieting and binge eating fall here in will be called “Deprivation Disorder” (DD), anorexia being the most severe form.
Dieting is a slippery slide to all Deprivation Disorders, whatever the name they are given :
- compulsive overeating
- emotional eating
- food addiction
- emotional overeating
- compulsive eating
- hyperphagia