[quote]RIT Jared wrote:
LoneLobo wrote:
Maybe they aren’t jealous or whatever, they just don’t have as much stuff to do with you anymore. Although you don’t notice it, you isolate yourself from the group when you refuse to eat or drink with them. Face it: They don’t have an eating disorder, you do. Anyone that cycles carbs or eats PC or PF meals has an eating disorder, to the point of being anorexic.
Anorexic is not being too skinny, it’s an overpowering fear of fat gain. We (BB) all have it, and no matter what you tell yourself, you AREN’T eating normally. You may be eating healthily or in a manner designed to emphasize your longetivity and aesthetics, but you most definitely are not eating normally.
Don’t say “I eat all the time I’m bulking right now im not anorexic.” Anorexic has nothing to do with weight gain or loss, it has to do with the mental state that exists within your mind. If you were a PL, you might have some room to talk here. Unfortunately…
We are not all anorexic. A person with anorexia severely limits food intake, has a distorted body image, refuses to maintain a normal body weight, and is intensely afraid of gaining weight, despite being very underweight.
Wanting to gain lean mass is not anorexia nervosa.
Having a dietary plan is not equivalent to being anorexic. Plenty of endurance athletes eat to maximize performance-- I eat to maximize my body composition goals. Not a disorder. I have a goal, I posess the information and tools I need to achieve that goal, and I follow it to success.
Also I am a little confused as to your last statement. Are you implying that no powerlifters have dietary plans or body composition goals? I have been competitive in powerlifting at sub 10% bodyfat levels, and one of my good friends recently dieted down from the 181lb weight class to the 165lb weight class and broke the national Bench record.[/quote]
Wrong. You skipped right past what I defined anorexia (as do many dictionaries) as: an overwhelming fear of weight gain, which in these instances I think can be said to be fat gain. Anorexics, I repeat, are not always underweight. Many of us are anorexics, and we don’t look terribly skinny, but we are concerned about what we eat in regards to fat gain. I’m not saying that “anorexic” or “eating disorder” are necessarily negative terms, people put a negative connotation on it, it’s just that most athletes concerned with body comp have surpassed the “eat to live” mantra.
And the PL thing was a joke.