Article: Dedicated Bodybuilding = Disorder

PEPTgirl · 06-Aug-05, 03:31 PM

Interesting read... So eating for optimum performance and health is now considered a disorder.

http://www.dolfzine.com/page164.htm

**Firehawk** · 06-Aug-05, 05:38 PM

Isn't it amazing how ANYTHING outside the box in the "norm" of the medical center is a disorder? F OFF doctors!

**maverick** · 06-Aug-05, 05:55 PM

Well I guess I'll put away my salmon and brown rice and have a Big Mac. Don't want to be abnormal.

I'm willing to bet the researchers on that study are far from peak physical form

mooshy · 06-Aug-05, 06:09 PM

bodybuilders and people with eating disorders have a lot in common. Particularily with food control, exercise and pill practices. I think thats why fitness attracts so many recovering from ED, its healthier but you can still be obssessive about food and weight... even more so sometimes.

PEPTgirl · 06-Aug-05, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mooshy

bodybuilders and people with eating disorders have a lot in common. Particularily with food control, exercise and pill practices. I think thats why fitness attracts so many recovering from ED, its healthier but you can still be obssessive about food and weight... even more so sometimes.

Yes, contest prep might be comparable. When I think of EDs though, I associate a distorted body image and poor self esteem. Those who are competing don't generally feel low about themselves, otherwise they wouldn't be getting up on stage.

It seems that anything and everything gets a label now! We all must be suffering from FFF (Fitness Forum Fanaticism).

**Firehawk** · 06-Aug-05, 09:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mooshy

bodybuilders and people with eating disorders have a lot in common. Particularily with food control, exercise and pill practices. I think thats why fitness attracts so many recovering from ED, its healthier but you can still be obssessive about food and weight... even more so sometimes.

Sorry, but a 200lb shredded guy is completely different than a bony 120 lb male that's 6 ft tall. It's a good addiction sir.

Vas85 · 07-Aug-05, 09:46 AM

About an addiction? i dont know... more of a passion, a hobby that you like.

Bodybuilding is about making a change to your body, not making excuses for why you are lazy/unmotivated/obese/anorexic or what have you (in this case branding it a disorder.. LOL rubbish).

Anybody lifting weights and bodybuilding does it for a desire, and like said a passion. Since when was that a disorder?

A simple analogy is a nba basketball player, they play for desire and passion to be the best at their interest (i.e. basketball) now i think thats also a disorder if they will brand dedicated bodybuilding a person with a disorder since they are simply trying to be their best.

**Gooseneck** · 07-Aug-05, 12:14 PM

What a bunch of crap.

Chain · 07-Aug-05, 01:36 PM

If it's just talking about your average person committed to a healthy lifestyle or a bodybuilder in the general population I think it's BS. There is a segment of bodybuilders today (like the pro level) where I can see why they'd call it a disorder. But those criteria are BS except for the maaaaybe #5.

**threenorns** · 07-Aug-05, 02:10 PM

biggest pile of **** i ever saw outside an elephant pen.

GRANTED, *some* bodybuilders have ED - probably about the same as any other pro sport or image-conscious industry such as dance - but, imo, they're *less* likely to have negative issues because they're very away that what goes on, comes off and so on.

bodybuilders and powerlifters are among the most stable ppl i've ever met: they eat big, they laugh big, they get laid big, and they generally live big.

what's wrong with that?

i've been "normal": it SUCKS.

EDIT: my mom wonders if there's a disorder for ppl who are compulsive about ferreting out disorders?

**.V.** · 07-Aug-05, 06:15 PM

That was some interesting reading. I wonder if it is true (the new label - not the supposed research). That is kind of ridiculous labeling someone trying to be their best and life a healthy lifestyle as having a disorder.

I see several references to ED in this thread, and I'm confused. What does Erectile Dysfunction have to do with eating healthy and regular, scheduled exercise?

**threenorns** · 07-Aug-05, 06:17 PM

ROFLMGDAO!!!!!

and here i thought they were referring to Mr Ed, the talking mule!

Cort · 08-Aug-05, 03:33 AM

If you have a goal, be it for your body, or something else altogether, I don't see why it would be considered a negative thing to take the necessary steps to reach that goal.

Eating like an athlete isn't an eating disorder, in my opinion, because it is good for you if done in an intelligent manner. Obsessing over one's appearance might be seen as a disorder, (though most people do in one way or another) but just because someone has a strict diet and training routine doesn't throw them in that category.

yorkie85 · 08-Aug-05, 07:18 PM

I can see how it could be a form of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder to those who refuse to go to restaurants or get paranoid about catabolism if they haven't eaten for three hours.

**.V.** · 08-Aug-05, 07:30 PM

Nothing wrong with OCD as long as you don't get obsessed with it.

Now I've got to go walk my 8800 steps.