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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there is someone disordered on this thread, it is the people suggesting that eating McDonald’s crap and highly processed foods is no big deal, not OP.

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Well, eating McDonald's or highly processed crap extremely occasional is actually not that big of a deal -- it might make you feel bad but it's not going to kill you if you eat fast food on a road trip a couple times a year.

But no one on this thread is arguing that junk food is good for you or that you *should* eat it -- pretty much everyone agrees it's bad for you and best avoided. But there's a difference between thinking McDonald's is not good for you (true), and thinking that all hamburgers or French fries are junk food (not true) or that anyone who eats McDonalds, or burgers, or fries, ever, is an unhealthy person (not true).

It's the severe, rigid, highly judgmental and moralistic approach to food that is a hallmark of orthorexia and it *is* a disorder. Because it's not really even about eating healthy or being healthy. It's about control, obsession, punishment, and judgment.[/quote]

But the op was not trying to judge, control, or punish anyone. Instead, they were expressing what they like to do for themself for their reasons. [b]And complaining that others like to judge, control, and try to punish them for the same. Which is entirely plausible, given the contents of this thread.[/b]
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100% This. We went to clean eating or non processed or whatever is accessible to say due to health issues and it worked. I don't comment on how others eat or make judgmental looks or anything, but yet there are those who feel the need to pressure me to have a dessert I don't want or crave or to order something fried and who make negative comments when I don't say a word about the eating.

The worst is my sister. She pushes foods and pressures and will mock my healthy plate with samples of a variety of things. When visiting my mother and she was there, my husband, kids and I would sometimes leave for a walk to get a break and fresh air and she would turn it into a obsessive need for exercise. I am normal weight-upper end of normal, not thin, and I enjoy a walk after a meal (which was suggested to me a doctor for digestive issues). The fresh air helps us when family events are tense and my younger child benefits from exercise to regulate. I don't say any of this-we just say we are going for a walk. Meanwhile, she will complain constantly about her autoimmune issues and her new pre-diabetes/metabolic syndrome diagnosis. Even mainstream doctors have suggested to her she try going off gluten, avoiding inflammatory foods and eating more vegetables, yet she prefers to police everyone's plate instead. And...she loves to label people orthorexic and lament her prediabetes as she eats her cake and cookies without anyone saying a word to provoke.[/quote]

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