How Do You Recognize Signs Of Anorexia In Young Girls?
• Most people with anorexia are female, but men are also sometimes anorexic. • Her clothes. Most anorexic girls wear baggy clothes, due to lack of self esteem and to keep their emaciation a secret. • Shopping. At the grocery store, they might ask you to buy “safe foods”. Those are foods that have little or no calories in them. • Has lost a noticeable amount of weight. Clothes may start to look baggy or loose. • Attempts to avoid eating as a family. She might use excuses like “I ate earlier”. • Ritualistic eating patterns, such as eating the same thing at the same time every day, or cutting the food into tiny pieces. • Becomes withdrawn and doesn’t socialize as much. Laxatives. This is a bulimic trait to ‘purge’ calories. Have you noticed empty laxative packets, or from cakes and sweets? This is evidence of a ‘binge and purge’.
