SIGNS OF BAD EATING DISORDER

10 Signs Of Bad Eating Disorder

 Category: Health And Nutrition

It's only human to wish you looked different or could fix something about yourself. But when a preoccupation with being thin takes over your eating habits, thoughts, and life, it's a sign of an eating disorder.

In this section, you can find the lists of physical, psychological and behavioral changes or signs that often accompany the eating disorders.

1.Excessive Exercise:

Along with the workout habit, exercise anorexia will go handy with the eating disorder. Excessive exercise is somewhat tricky, especially when it comes to highly active young people or athletes. People used to do excessive exercises to prove others that they were completely healthy. In fact, excessive exercising is the telltale sign which has an unhealthy relationship with the food and probably with the body as well.

2.Preoccupation with food:

Constantly thinking about food. Cooking for others, collecting recipes, reading food magazines, or making meal plans while eating very little.

3.Extra Dry Skin: 

Dehydrated skin always looks discolored or blotchy, which implies that the person was not getting the needed nutrition. It may result of lack of eating or purging properly, which is known as electrolyte imbalance. It also includes other physical signs which may accompany the flaky skin such as bags under eyes, dry mouth, and sunken cheeks. No doubt that the body is a good at expressing the signs that need to take care.

4.Pretending to eat or lying about eating:

Hiding, playing with, or throwing away food to avoid eating. Making excuses to get out of meals.

5.Dramatic weight loss 

Rapid, drastic weight loss with no medical cause.

6.Feeling fat, despite being underweight

You may feel overweight in general or just “too fat” in certain places, such as the stomach, hips, or thighs.

7.Poor Body Image:

An Obsessive or negative thought about the body size is a one among the key factor in the eating disorders that occur early in the disease. The warning signs of the poor body image also include negative self-talk and misinterpreting of other’s remarks. It also includes an intense fear of weight gain, increased preoccupation with the body shape, appearance, and weight. Sometimes, women will compare their figures to idealize such as rail-thin actresses and Disney princesses.

8..Dieting despite being thin:

Following a severely restricted diet. Eating only certain low-calorie foods. Banning “bad” foods such as carbohydrates and fats.

9..Obsession with calories, fat grams, and nutrition:

Reading food labels, measuring and weighing portions, keeping a food diary, reading diet books.

10.Strange or secretive food rituals:

Refusing to eat around others or in public places. Eating in rigid, ritualistic ways (e.g. cutting food “just so," chewing food and spitting it out, using a specific plate).