Just cut that out!
This may come off as a bit of a weird question, but I've always been curious...
(I really don't want to be insensitive, so I'm telling you now that the following question has to do with ED behavior and perhaps anyone worried about triggering behavior should not read/respond?)
All through high school and college, anytime I had to visit the guidance counselor's office for schedule changes/advisor meetings, etc... there would always be the good ol' self-help pamphlets out in the waiting room... the topics were always the same- binge drinking, depression, eating disorders.
To pass time I read these pamphlets over and over and one thing that always struck me was the "signs of an eating disorder" list, because it started with "Do you fantasize about cutting off body fat with scissors or a knife?"
This is disturbing bc my answer is always ummm yes, who hasn't?! I mean seriously, I do that all the time! Now, let me explain something- I am not and have never been at risk of developing an eating disorder, and neither do I believe that I am just a raving lunatic, so I am curious as to how many of you do this too? Is it really such an abnormal/disordered way of thinking? Am I really just a lunatic??? 
I usually wish I could use a magic wand, a little less graphic than scissors or a knife. 
I see myself as if I were in a graphics program, just take that little eraser tool and skim some off the edges. He he he.
Like pezgirl I don't usually fantasize about scissors, but I would like a full body tatoo of myself.
Just a bit smaller and trimmer than life size please.
hahah of course!!! it would be so much easier than all this calorie counting and excercise stuff!! unfortunately though, it cant be done haahhaha
When they say cutting it with knife/scissors, I think they mean you actually imagine you doing it, as if you are going to do it, rather than just day dreaming abstraction of "cutting" them.
I usually think about herding all the fat cells and skin to a little mound and just "plop!!" and disown them, hehe.
Oh ick... yeah I suppose I never really thought about it as being as gory as it sounds! Hmm, I guess when I "fantasize" about it, it's usually me pinching my belly roll in one hand and making my fingers the scissors- you know, the snip snip motion... and think oh if only I could just cut this off so easily... but being a squeamish person, my little daydreams are always blood-and-guts free! Yikes.
I imagine squishing all of my thigh and tummy fat up into where my boobies would be :] Lipo and boob augmentation all in one! WOOT. Haha never cutting it off though.. sounds too painful.
Not that specifically, but I have thought about the possibility of poking a hole, sticking in a straw and sucking the fat out with my vacuum cleaner. Completely impossible and foolish, but it has crossed my mind in the past!
So if that is your only "fantasy", I would think that you are completely normal!
I know I sure as heck don't have an ED!
Isn't that just called liposuction?
I guess it is more normal than I realised, reading the replies to this! I have to admit I think hating your body that much seems a bit disturbing to me!
I remember when I was more overweight daydreaming about a scifi pod that would magically transform me or whatever - thogh I think I was more hung up about the permanent removal of leg hair... haha
Maybe they meant thoughts more serious than thinking, "oh I wish I could just cut this off". Cause I think that too sometimes. Maybe the seriously at risk actually try and cause themselves harm... Which, yeah, is a terrible thing to think about.
I've never fantasized about cutting off body fat, and I do think it's a bit of a weird fantasy to have. Like you said, just too gory...
LOL, after I figured out that "ED" was not the male issue in those late night commercials 
(I'm new here, gotta get used to the terminology), I thought, well, I have briefly considered liposuction. However, I live in a hot clime and the idea of wearing a quarter-inch thick rubber girdle for two weeks just is not appealing. I know someone who had that done, and that's what she had to do. I guess my vanity level is a little lower.
However, yes, I would love to get rid of all this excess stuff hanging at my belly. I had a C-section several years ago, and I understand that other women have also experienced this weird and hideous "pouch" that the doctors leave us with. What are they thinking when they staple us together? What am I going to do as I lose the weight? I don't want this hanging there. It's really icky and somewhat depressing.
weird because i have been diagnosed with an ed, in the past and i never thought about cutting off my fat.
i've thought of a little lipo!
I heard a comedic satirical 'advertisement' for this type of thing once.
The ab weasel. Cuts off fat. It's hilarious, and my dad and I quote it.
(man with horrible southern accent) "The durn thing nearly kilt me, but justa look at me now!"
I often think of my tummy as a balloon that could just be "popped" and would just go away...but no knives :)
Sure I have had this fantasy and a million variations. Trim off the fat with a knife, sculpt the fat away like clay, shrink the fat in a pool of magic potion, wrap the fat off with shrink wrap, buff off the fat like a big old scratch!
Can't say I've ever had that fantasy so, no, not everyone does. But I think we've all had bizarre imaginings that we'd never remotely consider following through on in real life. As long as it was strictly imagining and you didn't have any of the other symptoms, you're probably okay.
not as graphic, but i've had some variation. i usually just think "wouldn't it just be easier if i could just cut excess fat off with scissors instead of diet and exercise?" not really picturing or fantasizing it.
Original Post by moonbmr72:
Not that specifically, but I have thought about the possibility of poking a hole, sticking in a straw and sucking the fat out with my vacuum cleaner. Completely impossible and foolish, but it has crossed my mind in the past!
So if that is your only "fantasy", I would think that you are completely normal!
I know I sure as heck don't have an ED!
OMG....the vacuum. I've so thought of that one! But, I'm not the type to deal with any pain well. So, instead I've opted for the diet and exercise thing. Still a pain. But it's working. 
Like everyone else, I haven't literally fantasized about cutting the fat, but definetly have imagined ridiculous situations that would never happen, like 3 wishes or the magic wand thing. But that always makes me more depressed, because if you could change anything, the list could be endless. I remember one particular occassion that I started thinking how awesome it would be if I could just give someone a list and *poof* it would happen, but before I knew it the list was like 2 pages long and I was thinking about my freaky Fred Flinstone toes. But then back to real life, all I really want is to be thin FOREVER and maybe that laser hair removal wouldn't be a bad idea either!
Side note: Is that really a sympton of ED? People actually have fantasies and consider doing this?
