What's the fine line between strict dieting and an eating disorder?

What's the fine line between strict dieting and an eating disorder?

I think when a person is dieting, they are putting themselves at risk for what's called "disordered eating. Along a continuum, you could have healthy eating, balanced nourishment, and then the dieting. Any time that we go on a diet, we have someone outside of ourselves telling us what to do with food. The chances are that we can only maintain that for a certain amount of time, which is why 98% of dieters gain that weight back and then some added weight as well. When you have dieting, what's actually going on, is that you are giving your power up to somebody else, and the dieting is leading to disordered eating. Over time, the more you diet the more your relationship with your body goes down. Then, the more disordered your eating becomes, the more your disordered eating becomes extreme, and then this leads to an eating disorder.