i feel like the people around him are really not helping him control his food intake when ...

i feel like i know what youre thinking and thats not how it works hun
his body has to take a healthy amount of calories thats good for his body, and that doesnt mean he has to eat like a skinny person (around 2k calories a day).
because you arent eating much calories, doesnt mean you will lose weight.
to lose weight there needs to be exercise.
the more you weight the more food you need to eat, even if youre overweight, but that does not mean you need to eat trash food.
so more weight=more food, normal knowledge, although i know where youre going.
and it truly seems so, if they gave him fast foods, fried things it would be not helping. they help him exercise, and with his illness he needs to constantly eat. we dont know how much time he spent in the game, but he obviously needs to feed his irl body too.

after that time he probably is hungry too

for you that might be a big amount, but for him its normal in order to satisfy his hunger

that mightve seemed a little bit rude, if so, im sorry : )

i actually aggree .. this disease is REAL. There are people sufferring from it. And its not that they constantly craving food.. but they cannot control the food intake once they spotted food. I have seen docus abt this illness , and the family was desperately hiding any food from the patient even chaining their fridge. But in the end the patient didnt make it cos his stomach burst when he went outing ONE time with friends. It made me sick when I saw the HOSPITAL providing him limitless amt of food in order to control his desire?

This is still different bc those people can’t control their rating once they are food. The character in this story feels anxiety when he doesn’t eat so he needs to eat in order to feel safe/content - he will constantly eat to fill his psychological needs. Giving him healthy food is at least better for him

Control their craving once they see food* rip my typos

It’s not a hunger problem, which is physical, more like a mental problem. I kinda just equate to how my friend bites her fingernails and the skin on her finger when she has anxiety. It gets really severe if school stress is piled on and her entire side of her second and middle finger is callused and bloody- but if she doesn’t do it she doesn’t feel release so she keeps doing it. You can’t really force her to stop it because it’s her release (we’ve tried to put lotion on her or hand sanitizer so the taste will deter her, and we tell her out loud to stop it bc she gets embarrassed in public and stops- she wants to get better herself but the only time it lessens is when she has less things to worry about- like being out from school now)

Im sorry i just assumed its the same disease because of the NAME. But i still stand by the OG posters said.. to not feed him. Because irl the stomach will burst first before he feels content.

Also, if its physiological / anxiety issue the protag had, the staff calling him PIG didnt help either. Maybe i involved my feeling too much becoz of my personal experienced with unprofessional staff , it pissed me off so much.

Bulimia is an eating disorder in which you restrict your eating so bad it leads to binge eating, even sleepwalking just to go eat because your body needs it so much. This usually results in self inducted vomiting, and feeding a starving person a lot of food will result in health issues. Don't spread misinformation on this, thank you