Anorexia Ingles

Anorexia

People with anorexia have a real fear of weight gain and a distorted view of their body size and shape. As a result, they can't maintain a normal body weight. Many teens with anorexia restrict their food intake by dieting, fasting, or excessive exercise. They hardly eat at all — and the small amount of food they do eat becomes an obsession.

Others with anorexia may start binge eating and purging eating a lot of food and then trying to get rid of the calories by forcing themselves to vomit, using laxatives, or exercising excessively, or some combination of these.

Sometimes a person with anorexia starts out just trying to lose some weight or hoping to get in shape. But the urge to eat less or to purge or over-exercise gets "addictive" and becomes too hard to stop.

Someone with anorexia might:

• become very thin, frail, or emaciated

• be obsessed with eating, food, and weight control

• weigh herself or himself repeatedly

• deliberately "water load" when going to see a health professional to get weighed

• count or portion food carefully

• only eat certain foods, avoiding foods like dairy, meat, wheat, etc. (of course, lots of people who are allergic to a particular food or are vegetarians avoid certain foods)

• exercise excessively

• feel fat

• withdraw from social activities, especially meals and celebrations involving food

• be depressed, lethargic (lacking in energy), and feel cold a lot

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