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Anorexia

Find anorexia help by calling our nationally recognized toll-free eating disorder helpline at 1-800-941-5313. Get the help you need to recover your health and reclaim your life. Caring professionals are standing by 24/7 to assist you and all calls are confidential.

Anorexia Signs

In a society where thinness is equated with success and happiness, it's no wonder many people have developed eating disorders including anorexia.

A complete preoccupation with dieting and thinness are anorexia signs that should not be ignored. These signs lead to excessive weight loss that can cause a number of medical problems.

Anorexia Warning Signs

People with anorexia are intensely fearful of being fat and gaining weight. This obsession with food and weight is usually a manifestation of underlying psychological problems. Additional anorexia signs are:

• Significant weight loss resulting in a body weight at least 15% below the normal healthy weight for the person's height and age.
• Preoccupation with dieting, weight, calories, food and fat grams.
• Refusal to eat certain foods, progressing to restrictions against whole categories of food (e.g. no sugar, no carbohydrates etc.).
• Denial of hunger.
• Development of food rituals (e.g. chewing excessively, cutting foods into small pieces before eating, rearranging food on the plate, eating foods in specific orders).
• Frequent comments about feeling "fat" or overweight despite dramatic weight loss.
• Great anxiety about gaining weight or being "fat."
• Consistent excuses to avoid mealtimes or any situations involving food.
• Strict, excessive exercise regimen--despite fatigue, illness, weather, or injury. The person feels they must "burn off" any calories consumed.
• Withdrawal from usual friends, hobbies and activities.
• general, behaviors and attitudes indicating that weight loss, dieting, and control of food are becoming primary concerns.

Anorexia Symptoms

Individuals with anorexia symptoms may not admit that their weight loss or restrictive eating are problems until it is too late and medical complications start to appear. Anorexia has four primary symptoms:

• Resistance to maintaining body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height
• Intense fear of weight gain or being "fat" even though underweight.
• Disturbance in the experience of body weight or shape, undue influence of weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of low body weight.
• Loss of menstrual periods in girls and women.

Eating disorder experts have found that prompt, intensive anorexia help and treatment significantly improve the chances of recovery from the condition.

To start your path towards anorexia recovery, call our nationally recognized toll-free eating disorder helpline at 1-800-941-5313. Professionals are standing by 24/7 to assist you and all calls are confidential.