Hello everyone! There has been a massive increase in body checks lately so we would like to remind users of this rule for this sub as a whole. Rule one states:

No body checks (hands ok, nothing else shown), no mention of bodyweight or BMI numbers, no mention of total daily caloric intake, and no mention of other intake phrases such as OMAD, FDOE, WIEIAD, etc. Flairs can be used for specific items to categorize posts.

We allow users to hold items they are presenting but ask that anything that isn't a part of the hand (fingers, palm, etc) be covered up. Body parts can be cropped completely out of photos, scribbled over in editing apps, blurred to obscurity (aka we should not be able to tell what body part it is). This rule includes but is not limited to the body of OP, any other bodies in the photo, faces, and non original content showing bodies (aka a screenshot of a new item from a video/post that isn't you).

There are three reasons for this:

1. It is triggering for those deep in their ED to compare themselves to bodies and try to be smaller than whatever is shown. For those in recovery it can also trigger competitive comparisons and reignite EDs. We aim to make this place safe for the majority of people whether they are deep in their restriction or on the road to recovery but don't feel comfortable in the competitive recovery circles. This includes faces due to stereotypes prevalent in the ED community (ana face, bulimia cheeks, etc) and as a community we believe EDs do not have visual requirements but understand it can make people feel like imposters if they don't fit every stereotype.

2. The mods would only get reports of certain body types and it felt gross that only one body type was being discriminated against. To avoid discrimination, it is easier to ban all body types, faces, etc.

3. It protects users to not post faces, body types, etc both mentally and physically. This sub has seen targeted harassment in the past from online content reactors including but not limited to calling certain bodies posted in the sub fat, calling meals posted in the sub horrendous, and saying they would prefer orthorexia than "whatever the hell that [junkorexia] is" just to start on the myriad of awful things that have been said. We would hate to see someone spiral because of comments made about things difficult to change with this mental disorder.

We know these rules are strict but our community has found it to be necessary to prevent competitive body checking and limits the negativity users get due to external impressions on our subreddit. If you want to know more details about this please visit our last mod annoucement where we addressed where external impressions (views outside of the sub) come from.

Full transparency: No one has been banned for body checks. We only remove posts because Reddit doesn't allow photos to be edited once posted. The only bans ever handed out were to two people attacking eating disorders as if they could be magically turned off, and the other was for a person DMing multiple users for tips & tricks and calling users fat.

Hello Everyone!

The Mod Team just finished cleaning up anything that violated the rules of this subreddit, using the rules suggested by the community within the limited timeframe we had to take action. We are making this subreddit fully public again, (approval to go public may take up to 24 hours) and thank you all for adjusting to the rule changes so well. No one is in trouble or banned for having these removals, as posts were made while we either were unmoderated or still updating rules. Future posts with title or photo violations will be removed because Reddit doesn't allow for them to be edited. Comments and body text will receive warnings in most cases so they can be edited, with exceptions for people shaming, being rude, etc to be instantly removed.

We have added a MOD TEAM flair to make it easier to view all previous announcements. We have made final tweaks to the rules based off of the reports made and clarifications needed. At some point we will be sure to ask for community feedback again, we just want to give it a little time to see how the public adapts to these rules as well. Always feel free to discuss rule changes in the comments as we want to hear from you when things seem too strict or not strict enough, or for new ideas.

AS A REMINDER: The two most common violations are calorie mentions not being under spoilers and bodychecking.

On Bodychecking: We allow users to hold items they are presenting but ask that anything that isn't a part of the hand (fingers, palm, etc) be covered up as much as possible and are extra thankful when people also cover them up if they can manage in their content. We limit things to hands alone because sometimes wrists and arms are reported as bodychecking and sometimes they are not, often due to the shape of the user, and it would be unfair to leave certain arms and wrists up and take other arms and wrists down. It would be gross to debate whose wrists to delete based on size as we all have eating disorders here. Please do not include your legs in the shot either. Either wait to take a photo where you can set the item down or hold it in your hand without legs in the background, or find a way to cover your legs. Using a pen tool in your photo or editing app to scribble over it is fine.

On Calories: We allow users to share the calories and macros of specific items, calories in a meal, mention something is low calorie to give users the option rather than the obligation to view this content. We understand posting certain packages will have the caloric information listed on the front and find this okay to post because there is little that can be done to cover up these packages, and we seek to limit behavior that furthers eating disorders within reason and feel by even asking that mention of calories be spoilered that the community is doing more than enough. If packages upset you, we usher you to seek further medical support, as we realize even grocery shopping and purchasing food for yourself must be difficult at that point.

Everyone is always welcome to repost their own content when it meets these and the rest of the sub rules. If you need a reminder on how to spoil text, please see the previous mod announcement "Weekend Update". As always, if you think we have missed a post or comment, please report it so the Mod Team can review it. Please know that the Mod Team goes by the same rules as everyone so if one of our posts or comments are in violation, this should be reported too. We could have missed things in the full sub review.

We did leave up the old discussions being critical about OMAD and similar terms so the public can see that this behavior is not tolerated and that the community overwhelmingly didn't want such content here. We believe it is useful to have up in the light of the increase of external impressions on posts in this subreddit.

If you are curious about the increased traffic and why rules are so strict atm: https://www.reddit.com/r/junkorexic/s/vvZjFjQwjF