Why BMI is BS
My thoughts on Anorexia versus Atypical Anorexia and the BMI requirement. I am passionate about labels and diagnoses because my eating disorder thrived on not having a name. For years, I rationalized my disordered thoughts and behaviors because from the outside, my eating disorder looked like “discipline.” I was often praised for my “discipline,” for eating “clean” and exclusively drinking water. I was complimented for having a thin body. On top of that, I was told that what I was doing was normal (at least from what people could see)- that what I was doing if anything was simply eating “clean” and living a “healthy lifestyle.” I was an athlete after all. I had to take care of my body. Very few people witnessed my obsessive behaviors with food and exercise. On top of that, no one knew how I truly felt about my body- how I was never satisfied with it. So from the outside, I appeared to be a highly motivated and disciplined female athlete. And THAT is how I was able to sustain
