Signs To Look Out For
Signs Within Others (General, To Look Out For)
- Dramatic and frequent weight fluncuations
- Avoidance in eating with others; eating in secret
- Dramatic change in diet, like avoiding eating foods they once loved or taking out a big part, like meat, out of their diets.
- Finding large amounts of food missing from pantries or areas where food may be stored.
- Frequently heading to the restroom as soon as they're done eating.
- Eating a lot of food very fast.
- Excercising more than a healthy amount.
- Avoiding specific foods or avoiding food in general
- Picky eating
- Persistent eating of non-food items such as clay or soil.
Signs To Look Out for Yourself
- Worrying a lot about your weight and body shape, obsession with reaching a specfic BMI as soon as possible.
- Eating very little amounts of food.
- Having very strict habits or routines around food.
- Eating even when you're not hungry or are already full
- Feeling that you don't have control over eating behaviors, or feel that you need to have absolute control with your eating behaviors.
- Fasting, limiting calories to extreme points.
- Actively searching online for harsh or soft motivation, or looking for "thinspiration".
- Purging
- Avoiding foods with specific colors, tastes, textures, or smells.
- Problems with digestion, feeling cold, tired, or dizzy, feeling uncomfortably full, dramatic weight gain or weight loss.
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