A history of disordered eating: proceeding carefully

A history of disordered eating: proceeding carefully Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did.

I would like to disagree carefully with the settled view on history of disordered eating, and I would like to be argued out of it if the disagreement is bad.

The disagreement is about one step, not about the conclusion. If the step holds I withdraw it entirely.

Narrowing post #9, because the general version has more than one answer.

Having read the whole history of disordered eating thread before replying: the question in the first post has not actually been answered yet, and three of us have answered a nearby one instead.

Post #25 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.

Adding a null result on history of disordered eating. I looked, carefully, and found nothing, and null results deserve posting precisely because they never are.

Reading rather than contributing, but this is the most useful thread I have found on it.

On post #38 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.

The reason history of disordered eating keeps being re-asked is that the answer is conditional and people quote it without the condition. It is not that the answer is unknown.

Expectations set by other people's reported trajectories are a documented source of distress, and the trajectories posted are not representative.

I disagree with the framing of history of disordered eating above, and I think it is a substantive disagreement rather than a terminological one. Setting out why, so it can be checked.

The reasoning depends on an assumption that is doing a lot of work and is never stated. If the assumption holds, the conclusion follows. I do not think it holds generally.

Social and relationship impacts: weight change affects how others perceive and interact with a person. Those impacts are real and can be psychologically significant.

That has held every time I have looked, which is not the same as always.

I have been on both sides of the history of disordered eating argument in this category within eighteen months, which should tell you how strong the evidence for either side is.