I recently stumbled upon fitness tik tok, and the sheer number of people admitting to engorging themselves one week then absolutely starving themselves another is really wild. Supposedly the goal is to get "cut", but it really feels like what wrestlers used to do in my high school lol
I've always understood it as a seasonal thing, like it's much easier and more pleasant to get cardio outdoors in the spring and summer, while a regular weightlifting routine in a well-lit gym keeps you sane in the darker, colder winter months, when you're gonna be all bundled up and no one can see your physique anyway. A yearly cycle between look-good-feel-good and fat-and-happy. I've never heard of on a week-to-week scale, that just sounds like a yo-yo diet.
Ahh that makes sense. Perhaps I shouldn't have said week-to-week, but nonetheless, it just feels like a more socially acceptable ED to me
kids on tiktok were munching down their pre workout powder without water for some reason and making it a trend called “dry scooping”
TikTok "fitness" sounds like pure memes and vibes, no thoughts
pure memes and vibes, no thoughts
That's being a kid in general lmao
It definitely can be, and a lot of bodybuilders develop eating disorders. It's also an easy way to cover for an eating disorder. That said, Renaissance Periodization has a lot of info on how to do it healthy (track calories precisely, limit your surplus and deficit to 500 kcals, maintain 6 weeks for every 6 weeks you cut, etc.)
That said, it stems from the same weight and image focused culture that eating disorders stem from, it's just slightly less harmful than diet culture. I'm cutting now and a lot happier than I was doing dumb shit to make weight for wrestling, let's put it that way. That said, cutting definitely is a politically not great activity and I don't encourage it. This is purely for my vanity.
its a little bit 'a square is a rectangle but a rectangle isnt a square' sort of thing, because it absolutely can be an eating disorder but I dont think it automatically is.
I did something similar years ago and it gave me a diagnosed editing disorder so lol I'd say yes definitely
I tend to cut over long periods. My diet is already pretty strict because my body can't handle certain foods. It's less about vanity for me and more just a fun routine that I do. The people who cut over ridiculously short periods of time do have eating disorders in my opinion and they only really work out for vanity reasons.
lol fighters do this on a regular basis to make weight, i dont think its an eating disorder unless you cannot stop doing it
fighters cutting weight can also be dangerous, a lot of deaths and serious injuries in boxing is because fighters starve and dehydrate themselves to have that weight advantage. As for bulking and cutting, it's purely aesthetics, Social Media and superhero movies have really pushed the whole male self image to levels that were previously reserved to females.
It really depends. As many people have noted, if it becomes compulsive then absolutely. Talking to guys, it's really when the dopamine rush of 'winning' gets mixed with a dopamine rush of 'cutting', where the number on the scale matters more than what is actually going on with your body muscularly. I've known guys who refuse to look at scales because they have this disorder.
Cutting for wrestling isn’t an eating disorder. It’s a different bad thing. Or it’s the same. Idk I’m not a psychiatrist, I’m just a guy who consistently cut from 190 to 170 once to twice a week
I mean, it can be pathological, but isn't necessarily. If you're doing it with a goal in mind and can stop whenever you want, it's not a disorder.
