Anonymous wrote:I eat pretty clean. I no longer eat chicken or eggs. I just don't like them. If I eat ice cream I feel sick. My adult sons think I have an eating disorder. I do not. I don't comment on what others eat. I just wish people would leave me alone. Since I'm a size 2 people think it's ok to call me out. Not nice.

Anonymous wrote:I know kids who develop extreme anxiety around what they eat and the need to eat "clean". They meal plan and love label reading. It's an issue.

Anonymous wrote:I mean, you can reverse some things with clean eating, like high cholesterol, fatty liver, diabetes, high blood BP, but you're not going to reverse cancer no matter how clean you eat.

Also, you can be the healthiest person and eat very cleanly and still get cancer. There are no guarantees in life.

My uncle ran marathons, was a vegan from age 18-53, went to the gym daily, played on several rec leagues, etc. and a blood clot from a large hematoma took him out. He was a landscape architect and a guy on a job site accidentally rammed my uncle's shin with a cart.

Anonymous wrote:This is why it's a disorder. You sound unhinged.

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely no one is claiming eating "clean" is a disorder. The issue is when you get to a point of extreme anxiety around eating bc you have to have absolute control over everything that goes in your mouth. Just like washing your hands is a healthy habit but someone with OCD feels around contamination will wash their hands excessively to gain a sense of peace and control, even though there is no such thing as absolute certainty that your hands are germ-free.

I'm glad you're feeling better but your thinking (and the weird comparison to homosexuality) is incredibly flawed.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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. 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.

Anonymous wrote:It’s a disorder in that it interferes with one’s ability to live a normal life. My MIL would bring all her own food when she visited, lugging it through airports etc.

Anonymous wrote: but having anxiety about chemical filled food to the point of bringing your own foods is something a lot of people I know who reversed illness have and do.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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. 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.