DJ Sezbot says she lurrrrrrves watching mukbangs. Is this an ED thing? Sorry if this is an insensitive question. I’m just wondering if this is also a thing that people suffering from restrictive eating disorders become fixated on.
Not insensitive at all, and you’re spot on. Yes - fixation with food in its many variations is a hallmark ED behaviour.
This doesn’t just stop at physical restriction and personal food rules, but also a paradoxical obsession with food - preparing it, watching/reading about it, thinking about it - even if the ED means the sufferer doesn’t actually eat much/normally. So watching mukbangs could definitely be a manifestation of the obsession with/control over food.
I remember in the depths of my ED (AN restrictive subtype), I would vicariously engage with food without eating it by reading recipes, making food for others, watching mukbangs, spending long amounts of time wandering the supermarket, hoarding food, subsisting on supplements, writing out different combinations of daily food intakes (to see how low I would get the calories), etc.
I see soooo soooo many red flags in Sarah’s behaviour it’s not funny. She constantly emphasises how much she loooooves food and has a huuuuuuuge appetite, yet never shows herself eating more than a few spoons of tiny portions.
She claims to be sahhhhh much of a fOoDiE she made an app about it, yet shows no joy around food. In fact, she uses her control of food as a means to control her family eats, berating Kurt for giving Focks normal kid things like biscuits or cereal.
She demonises her non safe foods, invents intolerances, and is constantly complaining about how apparent lapses (like eating rice, too much salt, etc) effect her body - ie SoDIE bLoAt, needing laxatives to poop, or the infamous GuRgLy TuMmY).
Honestly, it just clicked to me why she probably blocked Christie Swaddling all those years ago - ED jealousy. Christie had severe AN, whereas Sarah seems to suffer more from orthorexia or EDNOS/atypical AN. She would’ve hated seeing another blonde fitness girl, far skinnier than herself, coming for her demographic.