Signs and symptoms include:

Missing meals, eating very little or avoiding eating any foods you see as fattening.

Lying about what and when you’ve eaten, and avoiding eating with others.

Wearing baggy clothes to hide your body shape and lying about how much you weigh

Taking medicines to reduce your hunger (appetite suppressants), or to help you poo (laxatives) or to make you pee (diuretics)

Exercising excessively or making yourself sick to try to avoid putting on weight

An overwhelming fear of gaining weight

Strict rituals around eating and thinking about food a lot

Weighing yourself frequently and seeing losing a lot of weight as a positive thing

Believing you’re fat when you’re a healthy weight or underweight

Not admitting your weight loss is serious, dramatic weight loss