You can be heavy and fit. Excessive dieting can lead to irritability, depression, withdrawal, and sexual disinterest. Eating disorders are mental disorders that can have serious physical complications. These disorders may make normal functioning difficult and can become chronic, crippling illnesses and in extreme cases require hospitalization. These are complex disorders focusing on issues of eating, body weight, and body shape.
Disordered eating can lead to an eating disorder.
It is important to identify eating habits and change them before they become severe. This eating is without regard to physical cues signally hunger or satisfaction. The individual loses the power of choice over food. Driven by forces they don't quite understand or even recognize to eat more than they need. A person will eat a large quantity of food in a short period of time.