How Do You Tell If Someone Is Anorexic?
• Observe the person’s eating habits. They may only eat tiny amounts of low-calorie food, or if you never see them eating at all, even when other people are having a meal, that may be a sign of anorexia. They also might eat oddly. Like cutting up already small bits of food smaller. They also might play with their food, for an example moving it around a lot before eating it. • Ask yourself if your friend makes excuses to cover their abnormal behavior. For example, if invited to a party where there will be food, they may say they already ate before they arrived. Other reasons they will be reluctant to eat is they may explain they’re just not hungry, they’re on a diet and need to lose weight, they don’t like any of the food available,they have allergies, or they’re sick and don’t feel like eating. • Observe whether they are obsessed with food. Despite the fact that they eat very little, anorexics are often obsessed with food. They may read a lot of magazines about cooking, or watch the Fo
