Is this an eating disorder?

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I tend to binge on food at night but not eat much throughout the day. I also go through periods where I am anxious and can't eat, but once I get hungry, I will eat everything in sight.

Sometimes I tend to follow a binge-fast pattern, which is sometimes referred to as non-purging bulimia. I don't binge-fast to diet, though. I just naturally fell into a rhythm where I don't feel hungry much of the time until WHAM I just do--and then I eat so much that I'm not really hungry for a few days again.

It probably depends on who you ask. There are people out there who can and will label anything a disorder of some sorts, even when it's not. It doesn't sound like one to me though. It sounds like you eat when you are hungry or just want something and when you aren't hungry or don't want to eat, you don't. As long as you aren't doing it because of some compulsion then I wouldn't think it's one.

I eat somewhat the same way. I'll go days without eating and having to remind myself to eat something even though I'm not hungry so I don't fall out faint. Then I'll go a day or two eating everything in sight. It's not driven by anything, I just listen to my body. I've also only dieted one time in my life and that was in my early 20's right before my thyroid surgery when I got up to about 160. Other than that one time, I've never had a weight problem at all and haven't since then either.

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I would say no. It doesn't seem like it'c compulsive or caused by any stress. I actually do the same thing all the time. I'm never hungry in the mornings, but once it's past noon I'm starving for the next four hours.

Maybe your body just fell into a really weird rhythm. As long as you aren't deliberately starving yourself and eating everything in sight when you can't take the hunger pangs anymore, then you're fine. Eating when you feel hungry isn't necessarily a bad thing.

No, not an eating disorder. Some people actually believe this is the way people evolved to eat and practice it as a diet--try Googling "intermittent fasting".

If you can't control when and how much you eat on a daily basis, there is probably some form of disorder in play.

Binge eating is not normal or healthy, but it's not unusual for a person to be overtly hungry if they went all day without eating.

You sound concerned so if you haven't already definitely check with your doctor. In my uninformed opinion, it seems like it isn't as much of an eating problem as much as its an anxiety problem. Still, if your not eating for "periods" of time, that can't be good.