So, can we consider Weekly Extreme Disordered Eating Pattern (WEDEP), or "weekemia," as I like to call it, an eating disorder? Let's walk through the definition word by word.
Psychological, or mental, meaning the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality: The cyclic eating pattern that we are discussing is someone's intellectual response to an external reality, the reality being that increased calories and lack of exercise induces weight gain and that decreased calories and increased exercise induces weight loss. Understanding that reality and using it to manipulate your intake in a cyclic manner in that you eat and drink crap on weekends and then restrict on weekdays is a mental, intellectual decision.
Serious: Relating to a matter of importance: Is your health important? It is well known that consistency of eating and exercising is productive when it comes to keeping your metabolism in mint condition for the longevity of health and a healthy weight. So, purposely playing the system. increasing your intake to an extreme 2 days of the week and then restricting during the week, is not necessarily healthy for your body...even though you can maintain your weight. You are manipulating your body to maintain weight, but in a non-healthy manner...It's possibly even detrimental to your future health. This reminds me of bulimia (a very well documented eating disorder) where actions are taken to maintain weight. So, yes, I would say that "weekemia" is serious.
Disturbance: A local variation from the normal conditions. If the normal conditions is balanced eating and exercising (which is different for each person), then binge eating and drinking coupled with restricted eating and increased exercise would be a defined disturbance. Furthermore, this is a disturbance of eating behavior.
So, going by definition, I would say that this pattern of eating could be considered an eating disorder. But, what can we do about it? Find out tomorrow!!!
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