I recently stumbled upon fitness tik tok, and the sheer number of people admitting to engorging themselves one week then absolutely starving themselves another is really wild. Supposedly the goal is to get "cut", but it really feels like what wrestlers used to do in my high school lol
It really depends. As many people have noted, if it becomes compulsive then absolutely. Talking to guys, it's really when the dopamine rush of 'winning' gets mixed with a dopamine rush of 'cutting', where the number on the scale matters more than what is actually going on with your body muscularly. I've known guys who refuse to look at scales because they have this disorder.