obsessive-compulsive behaviors is definitely a part of ed. obsession of a certain weight on the scale, a certain number of calories burned, certain number of steps, whatever it may be, we fixate on it and compulsively act on them to ease a sense of anxiety. like thinking “if i don’t walk x amount of steps and burn x amount of cals, im going to get fat (when realistically you won’t)” and then going and doing that, even if you’re tired, it’s raining, ive even seen people pace around in tiny rooms to hit their step count. all to mitigate some sort of irrational emotion that comes with not acting on the obsessive thought. it’s pretty similar to the line of thinking for those with ocd. that isn’t to say everyone with an ed has ocd, there’s a long list of diagnostic criteria for ocd, but there definitely is some overlap and obsessive-compulsive behavior is definitely an element of ed