You don't need to 'look' a certain way to struggle with an eating disorder. Sometimes our emotions become intertwined with eating, the first step is being able to separate the two.
Eating disorders are so common that most of us know somebody who has one, but we may not even know it. People with an eating disorder are often good at hiding it. About 30 million people in the US suffer from some sort of eating disorder and while they are traditionally associated with women, one third of those who have an eating disorder are men.
Did you know that approximately 24 million people in the U.S. struggle with an eating disorder yet most of them do not know they even have one. People with eating disorders have an unhealthy relationship with food and their body image. Classified as a mental illness, eating disorders can have life threatening consequences...