I don't get why there are so many eating disorders if people just exercised a little and ate in moderation?

I just mean, I see all these people starving themselves and engaging in bulimia and binging and purging. I know it's a mind thing,b ut I don't get how peopple adon't knwo that not starving yoursel fand exercising will yield better results. Best yet, you won't feel hungry. Is the breakdown in society or with parents? Will there ever be way to stop kids/adults/whoever feeling like they need to go on fasts until they reach 50 pounds?

RK, no where did I say I was judging people and no where did I say that I haven't had a problem too. Looks like judgmentalism goes in a circle.

Because it's about more than losing weight. It's about control, and other things as well. People don't consciously decide to have an eating disorder. It's a disease that kills people, and it's very difficult to recover from. An answer above said it's because people are "lazy." No, sweetie. It's because they have a mental illness. I'm recovered now, but when I was at my worst with anorexia, I was eating about 100 calories a day, as well as exercising far more than the average person.

Really, it's impossible to understand if you haven't dealt with it yourself. Don't make yourself crazy trying to understand, because in reality, you can't.

I hope this helped.

It's too easy to grab fast food anymore..and most of that isn't good for ya...Many people have too many things to do and don't find time to exercise. I don't know many people that walk anymore to go somewhere like old days. Too easy to get in a car and drive. I think convenience's hurt sometimes more than helped us.. We still have as much time but seems less time and more things to do in it.
I also am at fault ..I have to work at working out..It seems so hard to be commited to it.

it is not as easy as you think.

i tried to lose weight since october and ate normally and tried to goto sleep all day long i craved food, i tried to sleep and my mind would think about food and i craved it so bad, the cravings were like torture i could not sleep unless i got food, if i did not eat, i would stay awake all night my sleep schudle would be messed up, and if you dont sleep you gain weight, i had to take up smoking just so i would not crave food

so its i loose both ways

Eating disorders aren't about fitness, diet and exercise. It's about distorted perceptions of one's body, and exerting a sense of personal control in a family (or world), in which one often feels out of control.

I am sure there are plenty of other kinds of illogical mental illnesses that you also "don't get." Judgmentalism is bad karma.

because its not about the weight...when i was 59 lbs. in high school, it was about having control.

there are alot of gullible and stupid ppl in the world

the breakdown to me is in society, everywhere now and even all around the world all we see is skinny people, skinny models, skinny actors and skinny clothes. Which i believe is a major part in why everyone wants to become skinny, people now start to think that if they are not skinny and i mean skin and bones skinny that they dont fit in, About the exercising and eating right people are lazy, now the common thing to do is to go home and watch tv or use the computer, many people think it is too much work to join a gym or just lay off the junk food and eat a fruit, people are lazy. and to stop people from feeling like they need to fast i think we need to teach people how to exercise and eat properly. it is also the food companies and the unhealthy foods they create themselves. And when people hear about models who starve themselves to be skinny then thats exactly what they want to do, they dont want to do it the hard way, they want do it lazily

It's people who are lazy and don't want to excercise and also people who can't control their food cravings so they think that if they throw up they can just indulge all the time.