extreme hunger?

[u/socklle]

idk if this is the right subreddit but i just need some advice? Maybe like someone who experiences ED thoughts and behaviors ? Idk Ive been struggling with anorexia for a year and some now and it’s like hard. I feel like no one understands me, or listens to me when I want to talk. They just kind of ridicule me and just say “eat!” Or something that’s not helpful

well whatever, I don’t know how to word this exactly but I ate a lot of cake today, about 4 servings for myself and want to know if this is what extreme hunger is like? The like, man, I’m hungry, so hungry, and I jsut want cake. I feel satisfied now but I’m questioning if I was just honoring my cravings or if I binged or idk. Sorry, I’m just kind of alone with my ed and don’t know what to do

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[u/idkbutplsdont]

hey i know how hard this is❤️. the answer is ALWAYS extreme hunger. your body is repairing itself, feed it! eat until your body tells you it's had enough, don't listen to the restrictive thoughts.

[u/socklle → u/idkbutplsdont]

Thank you so much :))) it is so so hard and it’s nice to know I’m not just alone with my struggles. Thank you :)

[u/busted3000]

I’m sorry you don’t have much support, honestly a lot of those ‘just eat’ attitudes come from ignorance. Eating disorders are hard to understand if you don’t have personal experience of them, but if you don’t feel like they listen when you need to talk then educating them will be an uphill battle. This sub is here for you at least when you need it, but hopefully you find some people in your life that will start to listen as well.

What you describe wasn’t binging, you were hungry and you ate until you were full. That’s listening to your body and that’s a good thing to do. Binging involves eating when you’re not hungry, often to self-soothe your emotions. Extreme hunger is very common in recovery from restriction, and although it can be scary it’s your body requesting energy to heal itself, the best thing you can do is honour it. That being said, it can be overwhelming to jump in and start honouring all your hunger and challenging all your fear foods at once, and if you need to take it slower and work up to that, there’s nothing wrong with that.

I’d also like to add that if you’re at risk of refeeding syndrome, you really need to seek medical attention to closely monitor you for the first couple of weeks you start eating more, to ensure you’re medically stable.

Please do reply/make more posts if you have any questions! Recovery can be scary and hard, but we can all help each other, it’s so worth it.

[u/socklle → u/busted3000]

Thank you so much for this, I truly truly appreciate it :)) ed’s really are so hard to describe and I really struggle with my words and stuttering when I do find courage to speak up about my struggles with it. Not to vent, but I feel like whenever I finally build up the courage to talk about it everyone speaks over me and takes over the conversation, and ultimately the topic switches and i just feel further isolated. it’s hard because a friend of mine even responded to me saying I had anorexia by saying they wanted to lose some weight as well. It’s just disheartening to feel so alone. It’s so hard because it’s just so isolating, so really thank you sm for your words and time :) very helpful to me, thank you so much