Very disturbing Pro-ED article published on Muscle & Fitness Hers Website

[liteweightbaby]

Last night I came across a very disturbing article posted by a woman (the founder of The Fighter Diet) on Muscle & Fitness Hers' website. They're a website geared towards women interested in fitness, figure, and bodybuilding. She basically claimed that if you diet smarter and train harder than other people, you have an eating disorder.

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[basket_star]

But it's hardly a choice! I mean, of course it IS a choice since you choose to do every action you take but if I felt able to choose any other way, I would certainly do so. I think that's what she doesn't get, that the ED is when you LOSE control, not when you have it..

[toluene]

Me too.

[reillume]

There is a fine line between an eating disorder and disordered eating. Many of the symptoms she describes would fall under disordered eating rather than a full-blown eating disorder. Plus the fact that EDs themselves are not choices, but the choices that sacrifice your social life or emotional wellbeing in favor of a certain body/weight goal ARE disordered. She sounds like she is mostly referring to the generalization of "you have an eating disorder" that people make when they know very little about their true nature

[liteweightbaby]

this is an amazing answer. :D

[reillume]

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[notxdeadxyet]

Sounds like the author doth protest too much.

[smilenatalie]

an eating disorder does not equal disordered eating. they're missing the point