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Do I have an eating disorder?

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I'm a guy and about 4 months ago I got fed up with being fat. I started exercising and cut out all fried and greasy foods. I'd been skipping breakfast before this and eventually cutting foods out wasn't enough, I had to cut out lunch. Then I cut out cheese and potatoes. Eventually I wouldn't eat dairy or anything starchy and I had cut out lunch. So far I've lost 44 pounds and dinner is now no more.

In these past 4 months my health has been degrading also because I have a lot of trouble sleeping now. On average I get about 3 hours of sleep. A week ago I went to bed at 8:00 A.M. and woke up at 10:00 A.M. In this past 48 hour period I've only gotten 30 minutes of sleep.

Only very recently did I get the disturbing though that I might have an eating disorder. I've always been able to shake this off for two reasons. Number one is that I didn't think guys got eating disorders. Number is that if I have an eating disorder how could I possible be aware of it? I also thought that the sleep thing was just something normal for my age.

Now I'm starting to get scared. I don't go around my friends as often and I've isolated myself from my family. I have been getting very secretive about my diets and everything in my life in general for no apparent reason. I've been starting to feel sad a lot and I feel guilty for, once again, no apparent reason. I tried to talk to ask my health teacher several times and I always bail out at the last minute.

I never told this to anyone before and I want to know if this is normal. If it's not normal I want to know how to make it stop. Any information would be of help. Thank you.

I asked this same question in the health catergory with the some information and I didn't get much in the way of answers so I was hoping since this area gets more posts I could get more information and opinions.

oh, and also I'm 6 foot and weight 150