If you or a family members suffer from any of these symptoms, you may be struggling with an eating disorder, or disordered eating:
- Increased "pickiness" or rigidity about food or avoiding certain food groups
- Chronic dieting
- Discomfort eating around others--finds ways to avoid meals
- Skipping meals
- Eating in secret large quantities of food and feeling guilty
- Significant weight gain or loss
- Driven exercising with the goal of reducing calories
- Compensating for food already consumed by exercising, restricting, vomiting, using laxatives or diet pills
- Increased shame about one's body