You Don’t Have to Be Underweight to Have Anorexia

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that less than 6% of people with eating disorders are medically diagnosed as “underweight”? Atypical anorexia is a type of eating disorder where patients present with restrictive behaviors and fear of weight gain but don't meet the low weight criteria seen in anorexia nervosa.

In this podcast episode, we talk with therapist-to-be Mimi Cole about her lived experience as a Black woman with atypical anorexia, which, as Mimi puts it, is just anorexia with a side of fatphobia. To be honest, the labeling of atypical anorexia is kind of problematic and confusing, considering that atypical anorexia is likely more prevalent than traditional anorexia. Also, BIPOC with eating disorders are half as likely to be diagnosed or to receive treatment. There’s a lot to unpack here!

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

• Mimi’s recovery journey + why she decided to become a therapist

• Common myths and misconceptions about atypical anorexia
• Why atypical anorexia can be just as harmful as traditional anorexia
• Unique challenges of being a Black woman with atypical anorexia
& MORE

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A conversation on atypical anorexia

Prevalence of atypical anorexia

Eating disorder statistics for people with marginalized identities

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.0	Hi, I'm Wendy.
0:04.1	And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.
0:07.0	Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness.
0:21.2	We have a really interesting guest today.
0:23.2	Yeah. She is a therapist in training.
0:27.2	Her name is Mimi Cole.
0:29.8	Incredible Instagram and like I resonate with like her presence online so much because
0:37.6	her mission is to create this community for people who are unlearning and becoming.
0:44.8	And as a clinician in training, she hopes to practice for my weight-inclusive trauma-informed lens.
0:50.3	And today she like kind of opened up about her experience with something that I think
0:56.8	a lot of people are not familiar with, which is a typical anorexia.
1:01.5	Yeah. And we're going to get into what that means.
1:05.6	Yeah. And I liked how she talks about like her journey.
1:09.2	She didn't start out realizing that this is what was going on.
1:12.7	It was a therapist who was a therapist of color and also Mimi's black.
1:18.0	Her parents are from Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
1:22.4	And these are things that just may weren't talked about in the household.
1:26.5	And her relationship with food wasn't something that she realized was problematic until she had a
1:32.5	great therapist who was able to diagnose her correctly. And this was her motivation.
1:37.8	She'll talk about for becoming a therapist.
1:40.0	So in this episode, she shares more about her lived experience.
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