Disordered eating exists in a wide spectrum — from the diagnosed eating disorders to the more invisible patterns of restriction, compensating, bingeing, and obsessing that don't have official names but run as background noise through many people's days. It's rarely about food. It's about control, or the absence of it.

Anonymous thoughts about disordered eating posted here are from people in the middle of this — the honest account of a relationship with food that has become about much more than food.