The signs and symptoms of unhelpful eating habits include:
- Strict dietary rules
- Restrictive food intake
- Binge-eating
- Preoccupation with food
- Altered mealtime behaviours
The signs and symptoms of unhelpful weight control behaviours include:
- Self-induced vomiting
- Misuse of laxatives or diuretics
- Excessive exercise
Persons with Anorexia Nervosa experience the following:
- Significant low body weight
- Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, despite significant low weight.
- Evaluation of self’s body weight or shape as much larger or heavier that it is in reality.
- A lack of awareness of current low body weight.
- Restrictive food intake or/and excessive exercise.
- Binge eating or/and purging behaviours.
- Serious medical complications.
Persons with Bulimia Nervosa experience the following:
- Binge-eating.
- A sense of losing control during the binge.
- Recurrent weight control behaviour to compensate for the binge.
- Frequent binge eating and compensatory behaviour (at least once a week for 3 months)
- Self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight.