How can I tell if she is becoming anorexic?

Eating and food behavior signs and symptoms

Dieting despite being thin – Follows a severely restricted diet. Eats only certain low-calorie foods. Bans “bad” foods such as carbohydrates and fats. Obsession with calories, fat grams, and nutrition – Reads food labels, measures and weighs portions, keeps a food diary, reads diet books. Pretending to eat or lying about eating – Hides, plays with, or throws away food to avoid eating. Makes excuses to get out of meals (“I had a huge lunch” or “My stomach isn’t feeling good.”). Preoccupation with food – Eats very little, but constantly thinks about food. May cook for others, collect recipes, read food magazines, or make meal plans. Strange or secretive food rituals – Often refuses to eat around others or in public places. May eat in rigid, ritualistic ways (e.g. cutting food “just so”, chewing food and spitting it out, using a specific plate). Appearance and body image signs and symptoms Dramatic weight loss – Rapid, drastic weight loss with no medical cause. Feeling fat, despite being underweight – May complain about being overweight in general or just “too fat” in certain places such as the stomach, hips, or thighs. Fixation on body image – Obsessed with weight, body shape, or clothing size. Frequent weigh-ins and concern over tiny fluctuations in weight. Harshly critical of appearance – Spends a lot of time in front of the mirror checking for flaws. There’s always something to criticize. They’re never thin enough. Denies being too thin – Refuses to believe that his or her low body weight is a problem, but may try to conceal it (drinking a lot of water before being weighed, wearing baggy or oversized clothes).

Purging signs and symptoms

Using diet pills, laxatives, or diuretics – Abuses water pills, herbal appetite suppressants, prescription stimulants, ipecac syrup, and other drugs for weight loss. Throwing up after eating – Frequently disappears after meals or goes to the bathroom. May run the water to disguise sounds of vomiting or reappear smelling like mouthwash or mints. *Compulsive exercising – Follows a punishing exercise regimen aimed at burning calories. Will exercise through injuries, illness, and bad weather. Works out extra hard after bingeing or eating something “bad.”

make her eat, tell her shes only takin the easy wway out, if she really wants to feel good about herself and show her weight shes sick of it then she needs to exorcise, it feels great to lose weight that way, anorexia eats you from the inside and my friends mom showed her pictures of anorexic people and my friend was so scared she ate an entire cake within the next 10 mins. do what you can and let her know your concerned

I agree with the statement above. not eating messes up your metabolism, so your friend is just making her life worse.

your friend is anorexic, and she does not want to talk about. if you get her help, she probably will feel betrayed and very hurt. but she NEEDS help. once she is fully healthy, she will be so grateful you came in and took charge.

crazy as it sounds you NEED to eat to lose weight. if you dont eat then well you will die but if you eat just a lil then when you eat 1 bad thing you gain all the weight back.