Eating Disorders R' US

On my quest for following doctors orders, or at least, incorporating healthy choices in my life I've been logging my eating with FitDay's online dietary software. The results seem to be a surprise to no one but me. My roommate accused me of being on a pointless starvation diet. I thought he was being melodramatic. However, I discovered after a week and a half of food tracking that his outburst seems justified. I'm getting 800-1000 calories max, on a daily average. I no longer feel hunger at all, although I know when my blood sugar is low. Food is often uninteresting or often thoroughly repellent. So I googled up starvation eating disorders...

I don't think I'm an anorexic, these being the top symptoms for anorexia:

1. Obsess about food, weight, and dieting.
2. Strictly limit their food intake. For example, they may limit themselves to just a few hundred calories a day or refuse to eat certain foods, such as anything with fat or sugar.
3. Exercise a lot, even when they are sick.
4. Weigh much less than is healthy or normal.
5. Are very afraid of gaining weight.
6. Refuse to stay at a normal weight.
7. Think they are overweight even when they are very thin.

Even government BMI tables agree that I am a portly piglet, that alone knocks anorexia out of the contenders. But clearly something is wrong. Despite being close to the margin between overweight and obese, I am technically starving.

My ideas on how to fix this are limited. How can you eat when the sight of food makes you want to leave the room? Clearly, I am going to have to relearn how to eat.


*The incongruity of my love for cooking and the repugnancy of food is not lost on me.