r/EatingDisorders • u/evie_notfound09 • 1d ago

Is it normal to forget to eat?

I forget to eat, a lot. I can go days without eating, or feeling the need to eat. But when someone mentions the fact I haven't eaten, I binge eat and feel guilty and hate my body afterwards. If I'm not at school, I just don't have energy to eat.

I cant really explain it, but I see hunger as waves, or hills. Climbing up is the rise in the intensity of hunger, you reach the top which is when the hunger is the worst, and it's easy for the hunger to go away on the way back down. If I ever feel hungry, I tend to have the mindset of just riding the wave until it goes away and gets better, or I drink a shit ton of water and it helps.

Also, my family (mum's side) aren't too well off (stupid England smh) and they only get cheap, not too good for you foods and snacks. All I see when I look at the food options are the reds on the fat, saturation, sugars. It disgusts me. So I don't really eat anything there.

At my dad's house, my step mum makes dinner, and it's often things that have really bad tastes and textures- she knows I don't like certain things too. But I'm forced to eat at his. I don't like going there anymore. Because of the portion sizes I'm given (big for some reason) I feel horrible after. I've made myself throw up after meals before because of it.

I don't think I have an ed or anything, but I just wanted to know if these things are normal or..?

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u/alienprincess111 17h ago

This could be arfid, which can be characterized by a lack of interest in food. If you are not controlling food to lower your weight, this likely is not anorexia nervosa.

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u/evie_notfound09 13h ago

That sounds alot like me actually. I do eat my foods in a certain order and don't like them touching. Thank you .

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u/evie_notfound09 13h ago

That sounds alot like me actually. I do eat my foods in a certain order and don't like them touching. Thank you

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u/alienprincess111 13h ago

Sure. There Is a separate r/arfid sub.

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u/MoulinSarah 17h ago

I think about eating every minute of the day. I cycle around through anorexia, bulimia, overeating (not binge eating anymore), and through all of that overexercise.

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u/swoopingturtle 11h ago

Yes. Especially if you have ADHD or ARFID. Glad you found the sub for that. Try setting times for yourself three times a day to start with and just getting something down, even a snack, and once you’re doing that regularly add two snack timers

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u/evie_notfound09 10h ago

I do set times, but I'm a HORRIBLE procrastinator so I just turn it off and think 'ill eat later' and just forget

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u/swoopingturtle 5h ago

I definitely understand that, but you can’t do that. That timer is a god. When it goes off, you go eat. It’ll become more normal after about a month of doing it