1. This article isn’t talking about individuals suffering from anorexia or bulimia, rather, people who are naturally thin or have a healthy understanding of self-control when it comes to diet and exercise. Commenters who are equating self-control to anorexia is taking it to the extreme. It’s not so black and white, starvation or binging.

2. The whole size 1 thing - granted it might have worked if the author had used a more common size. But the point is that everyone has a size they’re striving for regardless if that is size 1, 6, 14, etc. Nobody should be continuously buying larger sizes due to expanding waist, unless you are overeating and continuously gaining weight.

3. Last point, a huge stickler for me is that personally I have a small frame and hasnt gained much weight (maybe 1-3 lbs) since high school. I’m 30. But this is a natural state for me for me. However, people (jealous, concerned, hateful, etc) would make snide comments regarding my weight all the time. As one commenter pointed out, I don’t and can’t make comments to people who are obese because that would be considered rude to to cultural norms (as this article is emphasizing) and yet calling me names is okay? This point seems to be largely ignored by the commenters who are criticizing this article.

I think making insincere/critical comments to people of all weights is rude and inconsiderate. Calling someone a fat slob or skeletor are both insulting. If someone truly has a eating disorder on either spectrum, there’s a better way to approach them.

thanks for reading

With over population and all, can’t some ppl learn NOT 2 eat soooo much? There’s only so much of it 2 go around.

2) I actually agree with what this article is saying — crash-dieting, however unhealthy it is, is NOT the same as anorexia. Eating a salad for lunch and refusing treats doesn’t make someone anorexic. The main difference is that dieters are in control of what they eat, while anorexics are unable to control their fear of food.

And this is coming from someone with an eating disorder.

Now I agree on the point where all these wannabe anorexics are looking for attention, but not all of us are like that. There is nothing glamorous about throwing up your food, and passing out. Thats just stupid.

For someone who had anorexia you arent very bright else you would know that anorexia nervosa isnt just about the physical side but also the mental processes so i disagree with you when you say EDNOS isnt a dangerous eating disorder! You can be at a healthy weight but be dangerously sick! You can be underweight but still be considered healthy. People with EDNOS are suffering from the same as people with anorexia and bulimia but they may not meet one requirements for diagnoses. A person that eats 3 meals a day who wouldnt fit into anorexia or bulimia but who takes laxatives every day is doing dangerous stuff to her/his body…
I have been disagnosed with an eating disorder, but it doesnt make me an expert but i do know that it isnt about what i do or dont look like because it is about so much more than that.
so i completely disagree with your uneducated statement.

Wow. Thanks for writing it. There are so many people out there who think that they suffer from an eating disorder, when they really do not.

I urge you to look at this and realize that it is going on to way more than 1% of America, and can also end in death.
EDNOS (Eating Disorder Not Specified) Which includes those girls who are trying to fit into their bikinis and the ones who are “just jealous” of the girl who wears a size one or whatever.

http://www.something-fishy.org/whatarethey/ednos.php