LET'S KEEP IT REAL - UNDERSTANDING THE SIGNS OF EATING DISORDERS

ADVANCED SIGNS

  • Telling yourself “I don’t need a meal plan or I am fine”

  • Not being truthful about eating

  • Isolating yourself and avoiding social situations

  • Canceling people out of your life

  • Fixated on just eating soft foods or one type of food

  • Frequently bingeing/purging

  • Cheating on the meal plan

  

MODERATE SIGNS

  • Increased anxiety and /or depression around food

  • Obsessive thoughts about food and weight

  • Urges to diet and lose weight

  • Weighing very frequently

  • Very concerned about the food label and checking nutrition information constantly

  • Measuring and weighing food

  

MILD SIGNS:

  • Following a meal plan

  • Not being afraid of the unknown calories or thinking any foods are “bad”

  • Developing other interests like “Art Therapy Projects” and spending less time and energy with the E.D.

  • Being willing to surrender control over eating

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