Extreme hunger or BED?
Backstory: Before having an ED, I was >!52kg and 5'4!< and over the last few months before the summer holidays, I lost >!over 6kg (my lw was 45.9kg)!< by barely eating and over exercising, and I ended up losing my period. Before going on holiday, I told myself I would eat as little as possible to maintain my weight before going back to my old ways. But after a few days, I thought "fuck it, this isn't worth it". So I started to eat. Not just a little. I mean I started to EAT. Every day for breakfast, I would have 2 or more bowls of cereal, bread with nutella and bread with egg and meat. I would stuff myself until I couldn't eat anymore, even though I didn't experience extreme hunger. When I came back, I was about >!50kg!< and I freaked out and started to restrict again but that didn't last long. I started to eat a lot again, way more then I did even before I started restricting. (Btw, Im pretty sure I had some form of bed before bc I would eat even when I was full or not hungry even tho I was never FAT or anything bc I'm active and an athlete and I would feel the need to hide it/lie abt it because of the guilt.)
Fast forward to now, and I'm trying to honor my hunger cues by eating 3 meals a day + snacks to get my period back, but now, about 2 weeks after I started my "recovery", I'm starting to experience extreme hunger. I'm never satisfied. I will eat and eat and less than an hour later, I'm starving. Is this normal? I'm really freaking out rn
Posted Jul 23, 2026, 10:19 AM UTC