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Anorexia Athletica | Orthorexia | Night Eating Syndrome (NES)

Anorexia Athletica / Compulsive Over Exercising

Compulsive Exercise is often referred to as Anorexia Athletica, which is when a person no longer enjoys exercise, but feels obligated to do so. Someone with this disorder is most prominently female between the ages of 12 and 19, may experience a sense of guilt and anxiety when missing a work out, and not even sickness or injury can stop him/her from fulfilling the need for exercise.

Individuals with Anorexia Athletica may:

• Repeatedly exercise beyond the requirements for good health
• Be a fanatic about weight and diet
• Steal time to exercise from work, school, and relationships
• Strive to achieve and master ever more difficult challenges and forgets that physical activity can be fun
• Define self-worth in terms of performance
• Rarely or never satisfied with athletic achievements and pushes onto the next challenge immediately
• Justifies excessive behavior by defining self as a "special" elite athlete

Orthorexia

Orthorexia is an unhealthy fixation with healthy eating. Orthorexics are obsessed with food quality, rather than quantity, and strive for personal purity in their eating habits rather than for a thin physique.

• Spending more than three hours a day thinking about healthy food
• Planning tomorrow's menu today
• Feeling virtuous about what they eat, but not enjoying it
• Continually limiting the number of foods they eat
• Experiencing a reduced quality of life or social isolation (because their diet makes it difficult for them to eat anywhere but at home)
• Feeling critical of others who do not eat as well they do
• Skipping foods they once enjoyed in order to eat the "right" foods
• Feeling guilt or self-loathing when they stray from their diet
• Feeling in "total" control when they eat the correct diet

Night Eating Syndrome (NES)

Night Eating Syndrome (NES) is an eating disorder that is characterized by the consumption of more than 50 percent of daily calories after dinner and waking up at least once a night to consume high-carbohydrate snacks. Foods eaten during the nighttime binge are often high caloric in content and unhealthy. After the night binge, the person is usually not hungry in the morning.

• Have little or no appetite for breakfast. Delays first meal for several hours after waking up. Is not hungry or is upset about how much was eaten the night before
• Eat more food after dinner than during that meal
• Eat more than half of daily food intake after dinner but before breakfast. May leave the bed to snack at night
• Feels tense, anxious, upset, or guilty while eating
• Has trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. Wakes frequently and then often eats
• Ingests food that are often carbohydrates (sugary and starch)
• Has a sense of guilt and shame, no enjoyment

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