Stress Triggers College Eating Disorders
Common signs of an eating disorder include:
- A preoccupation with calculating calories, fat grams and carbohydrate grams
- A need to weigh oneself more than once a day
- Allowing the numbers on the scale to determine mood
- Exercising, skipping meals or purging after overeating
- Exercising to burn calories rather than for health or for fun
- An inability to stop eating once eating begins
- Eating in secret
- Feeling guilty, ashamed or disgusted after overeating
- Basing self-worth on looks or weight
- Worrying continuously about weight and body shape
- Abusing diet pills or laxatives
(Psych Central)