Originally Posted by
LifeRecovery 
Doing away with an individual food or food group for me is still eating disorder behavior....of the restrictive kind which is just as bad, and for me typically cycles back around.
AVRT is a technique to permanently abstain from an individual food or food group, not temporarily "doing away with" and "cycling back around".
I am almost as attentive to my not eating chocolate, caffeine, or manmade sweetened products as a person allergic to peanuts is of not eating peanuts. I would never have thought of it as a behavioral disorder. Interesting.