NO joke, but sort of made me go hmmmmm?

[Bassetmommer]

I was going to make a funny about this until I really started reading about this. Made me wonder if I am an orthorexia with my diet and life. Welcome to renal plant-based diet.

WARNING SIGNS & SYMPTOMS OF ORTHOREXIA

Compulsive checking of ingredient lists and nutritional labels

An increase in concern about the health of ingredients

Cutting out an increasing number of food groups (all sugar, all carbs, all dairy, all meat, all animal products)

An inability to eat anything but a narrow group of foods that are deemed ‘healthy’ or ‘pure’

Unusual interest in the health of what others are eating

Spending hours per day thinking about what food might be served at upcoming events

Showing high levels of distress when ‘safe’ or ‘healthy’ foods aren’t available

Obsessive following of food and ‘healthy lifestyle’ blogs on Twitter and Instagram

Body image concerns may or may not be present

nationaleatingdisorders.org...

[nellie237]

I was diagnosed coeliac last year. I'm now the 'oddball' in the supermarket with my magnifying glass checking ingredients.

This will undoubtedly happen to me at some point:-

"Showing high levels of distress when ‘safe’ or ‘healthy’ foods aren’t available"

If they're going to publish this stuff, they should put in a caveat that this list is not a choice for some illnesses. 🤦‍♀️

Kidney Disease, Diabetes, Life threatening Allergies......................

[lowraind]

If that is the case, then I think there are many of us who can identify as having "orthorexia". Particularly if you also have CKD.

[jodaer]

Definitely a hmmmm

[Nana16]

I would qualify under this list as having orthorexia. In addition to CKD, I am Celiac, have autoimmune hypothyroidism, and IBS-D, and was diagnosed last year with cardiac disease. All of these things require dietary modifications. I do my best not to be anxious over it, and if I am eating somewhere other than home, I take my own food with me. And yes, I am that label reader who is slowing down the progress in the grocery aisles.

I wonder what the eating disorders group would recommend for people like us. Should we just ignore all the things we KNOW for certain, identifiable by actual lab results and also by feeling less ill, make us feel worse, and eat whatever everyone else is eating? No thanks. Not for me. It took way too much hard work sorting it all out to get where I am today, and I'm not going back.

[purejoynow]

They will pathologize anything these days. Personally, I don't care a fig what anyone else eats but I do choose those things for myself that seem to improve how I feel.

[orangecity41 NKF Ambassador]

Yes we may be a lot like this but we have Doctor prescribed CKD diet based on blood work. In my case have limits on potassium, phosphorus and sodium. How can one keep on the diet without tracking it. How else do we control CKD and avoid dialysis as long as we can. Perhaps this a positive condition. Yes we might lose weight, but are keeping our kidneys working.

[RonZone]

I'm a proud card carrying member of the ORTHOREXIA club. We should build a clubhouse like Spanky and our Gang.

[Bassetmommer NKF Ambassador in reply to RonZone]

Yes, we can wear buttons and keep people who can eat anything out of the club. I love it.

[horsie63]

Holy crap I think I have that. Since my eGFR dropped to 22 in Mar I've been very stressed about potassium and sodium and now protein. Stress is terrible for my Graves Disease but I just can't seem to stop.