- Dramatic weight loss.
- Preoccupation with weight, food, calories, fat grams, and dieting.
- Refusal to eat certain foods, progressing to restrictions against whole categories of food, such as carbohydrates.
- Frequent remarks about feeling “fat” or overweight despite being underweight.
- Anxiety about gaining weight or being “fat”.
- Denial of hunger.
- Presence of food rituals, like eating foods in certain orders, or only eating in certain places.
- Consistent excuses to avoid mealtimes or situations involving food.
- Excessive, rigid exercise regimen to "burn off" calories despite illness, fatigue or ill weather conditions.
- Withdrawal from friends and social activities.
- In general, undue obsession with weight loss, dieting, and food.
