If your loved one shows most signs, but is not 15% underweight or lacking her monthly period, you should still be worried. He/she may not fit the medical description of "anorexia", but may be very close to it.

bulimia nervosa

• An obsession with food and weight loss.
• excessive exercising when the goal is burning calories.
• Yo-yo dieting.
• planning diets constantly
• Feeling extremely guilty after eating
• Fasting
• Binge eating. (in a period of 2 hours, eating vastly more than normal food intake in the same period of time.)
• Going to the toilet right after meals.
• A certain ritual of eating, when binging.
• Large amounts of food, disappearing.
• Hiding food
• Spending large amounts of money on food.
• Smell of vomit in the bathroom
• Mood depending on weight. (Both loss and gain.)

  
  
  
  I would like to apologize for not supplying more information about compulsive overeating. I do not have a lot of information on the subject. I hope to add information in the subject soon. Until then, I am sure you can find information in the links I have to other sites.

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