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Eating disorders range from very functional to very dysfunctional. People can be found anywhere on the continuum between these two points. Functional means that you have healthy eating habits and no concerns about your body weight or shape. Dysfunctional means that you are chronically dieting, you are skipping meals to control your weight, you compensate when you do eat (extreme exercise or purging), you may binge eat, and women will lose more than fifteen percent of their normal weight. Somewhere in between you can find people who are very self-conscious of their body image and may fall under a slight eating disorder. Closer to the functional side are people who diet occasionally, skip meals to control their weight, or binge eat because these people have some concern about their body weight and shape. In comparison, closer to the dysfunctional side are people who are frequently dieting, skipping meals a lot to control their weight, compensate when they eat with extreme exercise, or binge eat because they have frequent concern about their body weight and shape. This is very interesting because many people think that someone either has an eating disorder or they don't. This shows that their are many different spots throughout the continuum that someone can fall.

1.^ "Abnormal Psychology Sixth Edition". Susan Nolen- Hoeksema. Retrieved 30 November 2014.