Tessorexia

An eating disorder claiming to be "Anorexia Nervosa" that objectively fails to meet actual DSM-V criteria due to lacking the required "intense fear of weight gain", and of not being medically "underweight".

Tessorexia can be distinguished from "OSFED" or the Atypical Anorexia classification sub-type (which do not have the "underweight" requirement) in that a specific diagnosis of "Tessorexia" requires one to also meet four additional (non-DSM) criteria:

1) Seeking to further one's social media status,
2) Attempting to stay culturally relevant to one's Fat Acceptance and Body Positivity followers,
3) Appropriating "anorexia" from skinny pro-ana girls (since anorexia sounds sexier than "OSFED"),
4) Positioning one's self to silence critics by proclaiming one is a "recovering anorexic" in contrary to their Health at Every Size beliefs.

Tessie: I didn't eat (a whole cake with my picture on it) for three days so I could be lovely. I just let all my social media followers know that I'm now officially a recovering anorexic.

Sasha: No, you have Tessorexia.

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Tess Holiday

When someone with a real eating disorder is forced to temporarily suspend their normal routine of restriction/purging/exercise and/or safe foods due to external circumstances beyond their control (family vacation/road trip, presence of others, lack of safe foods being available, etc) and is forced to eat like a typical normie.

This can induce severe mental stress and cause feelings of guilt and of being a "fake ana" or as having "Tessorexia".

Tessie: "Did you hear that every May 6th is international "No Diet Day"?
Sasha: "Yeah. It's a Tess Holiday".

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