Ed Sheeran Talks About His Eating Disorder

[marsdiamonds]

In a interview for Rolling Stone mag, Ed Sheeran opened up about his personal life, including his struggle with an eating disorder.

"I have a real eating problem. I'm a real binge eater. I'm a binge-everything. But I'm now more of a binge exerciser, and a binge dad. And work, obviously."https://t.co/2LioS0hwT5
- Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) March

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[sheisagentleman]

Not me seeing this post as my completely unnecessary Uber Eats order is on the way. 🙃

[missyxxmisch]

man.....it was a bad day when I discovered uber eats actually was legit. I always thought it was something that never actually could work, like they would never bring the food to you and you would be scammed.

Then one fateful day I decided to try it (during the covid era). whoo boy. My weight and bank account has suffered extensively ever since.

I used to starve myself for days due to my ed and then binge on weekends (well it kept me skinny). I can't even do that anymore. Cos now I just cave in, and order uber eats and waste my money and get fat. 30 bucks for a burger. v_v whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. its like more then $100 a month I am spending. I need to stop. I have no self control.

[ty]

Thank you for being vulnerable. I did that with Door Dash, partly because I was also dealing with a house cleaning issue and did not have a working stove. Once I got a working stove in this new place, I am so inspired when people share how they cook and that has helped me. It's not complicated, I can make an egg now, but I cannot have a full loaf of bread, I freeze it by slices to avoid binging on it.

[qaleidoscope]

I had to delete the app off my phone because I realised I would just scroll through it looking for food when I was bored. It was just way too easy to order food without much thought. One day I decided to tally up my total UberEats spending for the year and it was like $2k. I was lIke, damn I can’t live like this.

I’ve made a mental negotiation with myself when I want take out now. I try to walk to my local restaurant and pick up. That way they get all my money and it makes me evaluate whether I really want to get something.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Aww I hope recovers from it. I can't imagine being compared to my peers on such a large scale.

[afeelingunacted]

I'm a binge eater too.

It's amazing how, because I wasn't bulimic or anorexic I didn't even realize I had an eating disorder until I was 30.

[belle_chouette]

The only .. uhh … upside to bulimia is that you absolutely can’t fool yourself into thinking you don’t have an ED bc making yourself throw up is so violent. Big reason why I retired from it.

I hope you can find healing and peace too, there’s a good life on the other side of all this ❤️

[evilgerbil]

I read the sequal to Trainspotting and didn't realize the character was bulemic until I read it again. She talks about going to the bathroom to throw up after some meals because the food was much too rich to digest sand I was like "oh that makes sense. " I never had that ED but people can definitely invent some logic to excuse just about anything.

[ty]

Sending you love

[wowsolovely]

I have binge/emotional eating issues that have started spiraling after just having really bad things happen all year. it’s very frustrating knowing I have done better. I keep telling myself tomorrow I won’t but hasn’t worked this week.

[sheisagentleman]

Be kind to yourself. 🫂 It can be hard to stop something so engrained as binge eating so just be patient. Take it step by step. 🤍

[ty]

Sending you love.

[smnp]

Sending you good vibes..
It is difficult !

[progression]

I wanna know what binge eating actually is because I saw someone list what I consider a normal amount of food in a day (sandwich, salad, some chocolate candy, a few pieces of fruit) and was like “wow I binged today!” And I thought “shit, I definitely snack more than that in a day.”

And then I saw a funny video made by some momfluencer where she said that two cake pops would make her bloated… and I thought of all the time where my friends and I ate 3 cake pops for dessert after a meal like it was nothing.

I used to think it was eating a crazy amount of food all day, but now I’m not sure if a lot of people just have a disordered understanding of what binging is?

[winter_lace]

Yeah I wouldn't consider either of those examples bingeing.

[jime22]

As far as I know BED is about eating larger amounts of food than what you are normally used to, and in short periods of time. A binging episode usually lasts minutes/hours, not an entire day. It also is a series of symptoms, not just the amount of food itself.

[kawaiiairbender]

I guess it would look different for different people. But also those people might have disordered eating haibts/struggles and consider normal amounts of food a binge.

The examples you gave would not be binge eating too me