How do you know when you suffer from anorexia?!


Question: How do you know when you suffer from anorexia?
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As well as full blown anorexia nervosa, there are also a varied level of degrees of eating disorder.

What it boils down to is "how much time and thought are you spending on what you eat?" If the answer is "an excessive amount of time" you nay have an eating disorder.

Left untreated long enough, it turns INTO anorexia nervosa, to simplify it.

But...

There are four basic criteria for the diagnosis of anorexia nervosa that are characteristic:

1. The refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (maintaining a body weight less than 85% of the expected weight)


2. An intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though the person is underweight


3. Self-perception that is grossly distorted, excessive emphasis on body weight in self-assessment, and weight loss that is either minimized or not acknowledged completely


4. In women who have already begun their menstrual cycle, at least three consecutive periods are missed (amenorrhea), or menstrual periods occur only after a hormone is administered.

http://www.medicinenet.com/anorexia_nerv…



You purposely under eat (loss of apetite). It might not be this straight forward, symptoms include depression, loss of weight, tiredness.
check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_ne…
it explains the whole thing, anorexia is a very complicated mental illness, there is no one answer to anything, everyone is different. x



you will feel not very hungry most of the time and fed up of eating so much but the best thing to do is to check up on how much your supposed to be eating for your age and just try to eat more because what your stomach does is it grows bigger when you eat more and that is why big people can eat so much and when your not eating then your stomach will shrink and that is when it hurts. if this is because you want to be skinny then just forget about it because you do not need to be skinny to look beautiful.



there are weight height and age chart or was it just height and weight??? hmm you can find them online if you're around 5'2" then the average weight would be 130lbs
if you're alder than 12 and still weigh like 65 lbs then yes you are



If you're starving yourself or you see yourself as fat when everyone else doesn't think you are fat.




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