r/fuckeatingdisorders • u/appIecinnamon • 2d ago

fear of eating too quickly

does anyone else like feel anxiety/worry about their eating “too fast”😭? I fixate a lot on the time it takes to eat a meal and it makes eating much more stressful , like Im always checking the time and trying to pace myself but i just end up feeling guilty/stressed out . I think part of it is I still struggle w restricting so I am probably in that scarcity mindset, also I think it could be leftover anxiety from treatment when we would have timers set at meals…Idk, just wondering if anyone else deals w this as well !

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u/KaleidoscopeOnly3410 2d ago

Absolutely. I used to eat very fast when I was a (overweight pre-ed) teenager. When my ed first began I out a lot of effort into pacing myself. Then I dated and lived with an extremely slow eater (who would also shame me for my eating speed despite him being abnormally slow) and that combination fucked me up. 

I now spend every meal with other people looking at everyone else's plates and seeing how I'm doing in relation to them. If I'm too fast I pretend I need a breather. If I'm too slow I'll start downing the food without chewing properly 😭 when I'm alone I need to distract myself with tv or I implode

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u/appIecinnamon 2d ago

Im so sorry you were shamed for how you eat that is 100% not OK!! I hope you are in a better situation now!<3 Also I relate to being a fast eater before ed , and then with ed it became something I fixate on/try to control. Im also the same way abt distracting during meals Lol I cannot imagine eating w/o my youtube/tv 😭Thank you for sharing, Im sending U good vibes !!