Irregular life AND Eatting disorder

by Balan T.M
(CALICUT,KERALA,IND)

I'm here to share my experience about my irregular life - habits which I think may have lead to an eating disorder.

I'm Jithin, a 20-year-old college student from India. I used to keep up a specific time for eating in my school days. My mom also tried to provide me a balanced diet for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

I used to manage the same routine of school breakfast at 8am, lunch at 1pm, some snacks with tea at 4pm and dinner by 8pm in the 1st year of college. But when it came to my 2nd year, my class times had shifted from 12:45pm to 4pm. I had to leave home to get to college by 11am and wouldn't return home until 5pm.

I found it difficult to eat lunch by 11am at home and travel on the bus about 30kms to college. So I simply started to skip lunch and have some snacks at noon. This was when my eating disorder started.

As time passed and my work load increased, I stopped eating altogether.

The only healthy food I consumed in a day was breakfast. Again I got used to this. I even started skipping dinner at home. Spicy fast food items kept in roadside restaurants became my only food for one day.

I can proudly tell you that I can live many days without food now. I don't feel hunger at all and consider the time normally spent eating as a waste.

It is true that my energy level and stamina have gone down. I sleep more these days. I get tired even walking small distances. My body looks thin and my tummy looks large.

I don't know weather I have anorexia symptoms or not. But simply I can live without food.