Anorexia Symptoms

Anorexia symptoms may not be easy to recognize. This is because people with anorexia symptoms often take extreme measures to avoid eating and to hide the fact that they are not eating. Anorexia symptoms could include lies or excuses for not eating. Often they will deny even being hungry. They may say that they are on a diet, that they have become vegetarians, or that they are fasting for religious or for health reasons.

Individuals with anorexia symptoms have a distorted image of their body, thinking they are fat or feeling bloated when in fact they have often become abnormally thin. since these young girls have a unclear image of their body they will often go on to diet, even when they are harshly underweight.

Another of the anorexia symptoms is the tendency to exercise compulsively and extremely - well beyond what is necessary to maintain good health. Teenagers with anorexia symptoms also weigh themselves often. They well restrict eating food, but also relationships, social activities and pleasure.

girls with anorexia symptoms, and even without dieting, are all the time thinking about food, nourishment and the number of calories in each meal.

Woman with anorexia symptoms often stop having menstrual periods. Other anorexia symptoms of a physical nature include thinning hair, dry, flaky skin and cracked or broken nails.