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This is a community for people with eating disorders only. DO NOT post things asking how to purge, etc. If your just here to rant about eating disorders and how your going to try and get this account deleted, get out. It's already been tried and as you can see, it's still here.

01. Fill out the application.
02. If your under 16, leave.
03. Like I said, DON'T post things on how to purge.
04. Post the application behind an LJ-cut.
05. If your posting pictures, also do that behind an LJ-cut.
06. Don't post any porn/nudity in this community, you will be banned.
07. If you are posting pictures of yourself in underwear, please be 18+, nobody wants to see 14 year old boobs.
08. Don't type like your in the fourth grade. If you do, your banned.
09. The subject line of your application should be "(your name here) is the thinnest", to tell me you have read the rules.

These are the types of Eating Disorders, when you fill out the application on what kind of ED you have, please post the correct one, if your weight/diagnosis/BMI does not match up, I'll tell you to change it.

Anorexia Nervosa

-Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (eg, weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85% (BMI of 17.5) of that expected or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85% of that expected).
-Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight.
-Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.
-In postmenarchal females, amenorrhea ie, the absence of at least three consecutive cycles. (A woman is considered to have amenorrhea if her periods occur only following hormone, eg, estrogen administration.)

Specify type

-Restricting Type: During the current episode of anorexia nervosa, the person has not regularly engaged in binge-eating or purging behavior (ie, self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas).
-Binge-Eating/Purging Type: During the current episode of anorexia nervosa, the person has regularly engaged in binge-eating or purging behavior (ie, self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas).

Bulimia Nervosa

-Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:(1) Eating, in a discrete period of time (eg, within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than most people would eat during a similar period of time and under similar circumstances.(2) A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (eg, a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating).
-Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behavior in order to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting; misuse of laxatives, diuretics, enemas or other medications; fasting or excessive exercise.
-The binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors both occur, on average, at least twice a week for 3 months.
-Self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight.
-The disturbance does not occur exclusively during episodes of bulimia nervosa.

Specify type

-Purging type: During the current episode of bulimia nervosa, the person has regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics or enemas.
-Nonpurging type: During the current episode of bulimia nervosa, the person has used inappropriate compensatory behaviors, such as fasting or excessive exercise, but has not regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics or enemas.

Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
(or EDNOS)

Includes disorders of eating that do not meet the criteria for any specific eating disorder. Examples include:

-For females, all of the criteria for anorexia nervosa are met except that the individual has regular menses.
-All of the criteria for anorexia nervosa are met except that, despite significant weight loss the individual's current weight is in the normal range.
-All of the criteria for bulimia nervosa are met except that the binge eating and inappropriate compensatory mechanisms occur at a frequency of less than twice a week or for duration of less than 3 months.
-The regular use of inappropriate compensatory behavior by an individual of normal body weight after eating small amounts of food (eg, self-induced vomiting after the consumption of two cookies).
-Repeatedly chewing and spitting out, but not swallowing, large amounts of food.

Binge Eating Disorder

This disorder is quite similar to bulimia, however, it differs from bulimia because its sufferers do not purge their bodies of excess food. They will eat large quantities of food, and do not stop until they are uncomfortably full. Most people with this disorder are obese and have a history of weight problems fluctuation. Recent research shows that binge eating disorders occur in about 30 percent of people participating in medically supervised weight control programs. BED is NOT the same as Compulsive Overeating (COE).

Compulsive Overeating

Some characteristics of COE

-May fulfill all the diagnostic critia for Bulimia Nervosa except for the regular purging.
-Will either binge on large amounts of food or snack continuously throughout the day.
-May be obsessed with food by thinking about it continuously.
-Food becomes a form of comfort to help with depression and feelings.
-Usually results in the person being overweight or obese. Some may be of normal weight if they go through periods of 'binge-free' days.
-May express frustration with weight and not being able to control urges around food.

Compulsive Exercising

These are the danger signs

-You force yourself to exercise even if you don't feel well.
-You freak if you miss a workout.
-You calculate how much to exercise based on how much you eat.
-You would rather exercise than get together with friends.
-You have trouble sitting still because you think you're not burning calories.
-You worry that you'll gain weight if you skip exercising for one day.

Anorexia Athletica

This disorder is most often recognized in competitive athletes, but it can affect anyone with a preoccupation with weight and/or diet. Anorexia Athletica goes hand in hand with Anorexia Nervosa and Compulsive Exercising.

Warning signs of Anorexia Athletica

-Exercising beyond the requirements for good health
-Obsessive dieting; fear of certain foods
-Compulsive or obsessive exercising; overtraining
-Individual won't eat with teammates, tries to hide dieting
-Stealing time from work, school, and relationships to exercise
-Focusing on challenge and forgetting that physical activity can be -fun
-Defining self-worth in terms of performance
-Rarely or never being satisfied with athletic achievements
-Always pushing on to the next challenge
-Justifying excessive behaviour by defining self as an athlete or insisting that their behaviour is healthy
-Desire to keep losing more poinds despite already low body weight
-Mood swings; angry outbursts
-Menstrual periods stop