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