The various eating disorders are anorexia, bulimia, binge eating n overeating.
Symptoms of bulimia/anorexia:
1. Dramatic weight loss in a relatively short period of time.
2. Wearing big or baggy clothes or dressing in layers to hide body shape and/or weight loss.
3. Obsession with weight and complaining of weight problems (even if “average” weight or thin).
4. Obsession with calories and fat content of foods.
5. Obsession with continuous exercise.
6. Frequent trips to the bathroom immediately following meals (sometimes accompanied with water running in the bathroom for a long period of time to hide the sound of vomiting).
7. Visible food restriction and self-starvation.
8. Visible bingeing and/or purging.
9. Use or hiding use of diet pills, laxatives, ipecac syrup (can cause immediate death!) or ******.
10. Isolation. Fear of eating around and with others.
11. Unusual Food rituals such as shifting the food around on the plate to look eaten; cutting food into tiny pieces; making sure the fork avoids contact with the lips (using teeth to scrap food off the fork or spoon); chewing food and spitting it out, but not swallowing; dropping food into napkin on lap to later throw away.
12. Hiding food in strange places (closets, cabinets, suitcases, under the bed) to avoid eating (Anorexia) or to eat at a later time (Bulimia).
13. Flushing uneaten food down the toilet (can cause sewage problems).
14. Vague or secretive eating patterns.
15. Keeping a “food diary” or lists that consists of food and/or behaviors (ie., purging, restricting, calories consumed, exercise, etc.)
16. Pre-occupied thoughts of food, weight and cooking.
17. Visiting websites that promote unhealthy ways to lose weight.
18. Reading books about weight loss and eating disorders.
19. Self-defeating statements after food consumption.
20. Hair loss. Pale or “grey” appearance to the skin.
21. Dizziness and headaches.
22. Frequent soar throats and/or swollen glands.
23. Low self-esteem. Feeling worthless. Often putting themself down and complaining of being “too stupid” or “too fat” and saying they don’t matter. Need for acceptance and approval from others.
24. Complaints of often feeling cold.
25. Low blood pressure.
26. Loss of menstrual cycle.
27. Constipation or incontinence.
28. Bruised or calluses knuckles; bloodshot or bleeding in the eyes; light bruising under the eyes and on the cheeks.
29. Perfectionistic personality.
30. Loss of sexual desire or promiscuous relations.
31. Mood swings. Depression. Fatigue.
32. Insomnia. Poor sleeping habits

Compulsive overeating/Binge eating disorder

1. Fear of not being able to control eating, and while eating, not being able to stop.
2. Isolation. Fear of eating around and with others.
3. Chronic dieting on a variety of popular diet plans.
4. Holding the belief that life will be better if they can lose weight.
5. hiding food in strange places (closets, cabinets, suitcases, under the bed) to eat at a later time.
6. Vague or secretive eating patterns.
7. Self-defeating statements after food consumption.
8. Blames failure in social and professional community on weight.
9. Holding the belief that food is their only friend.
10. Frequently out of breath after relatively light activities.
11. Excessive sweating and shortness of breath.
12. High blood pressure and/or cholesterol.
13. Leg and joint pain.
14. Weight gain.
15. Decreased mobility due to weight gain.
16. Loss of sexual desire or promiscuous relations.
17. Mood swings. Depression. Fatigue.
18. Insomnia. Poor Sleeping Habits.

Anorexia nervosa, or anorexia in short, is a mental disorder, and it is somewhat disenfranchised. Anorexic people oftenly tend to hide it from the rest of the world in a fear of being rejected or such. In the first place, they are anorexic because they want to have the “belonging” feeling to a certain target group, esp. with today’s image of beauty. Signs and symptoms of anorexia are not just limited on constant weight loss and lethargy, these people also tend to withdraw from society and begin asking about friend’s or other people’s concept of beauty. They withdraw from society because they want to keep their secret lives hidden, which is not eating and sometimes purging.

If they have been steadily losing weight for a while and she won’t eat in front of others, eats very little in front of others, rushes to the bathroom or makes excuses to go to the bathroom right after eating, those could be warning signs. Also if she complains of toothaches or if her gums look odd or bleed frequently, that could be a sign of bulimia since bulimics throw up their food and the stomach acid corrodes their teeth and gums. If u find out that she really have an eating disorder, sit down with her and talk to her seriously, tell her u really care about her and want to help her do wutever it takes for her to be healthy…be assertive but don’t overwhelm her…tell her that ur taking it seriously and that she should too…and that she has nothing to be ashamed of…get her to admit that she has a problem and it will get a bit easier from there.