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1. Dramatic weight loss.
2. Preoccupation with weight, food, calories, fat grams, and dieting.
3. Refusal to eat certain foods, progressing to restrictions against whole categories of food (e.g. no carbohydrates, etc.).
4. Frequent comments about feeling “fat” or overweight despite weight loss.
5. Anxiety about gaining weight or being “fat.”
6. Denial of hunger.
7. Development of food rituals (e.g. eating foods in certain orders, excessive chewing, rearranging food on a plate).
8. Consistent excuses to avoid mealtimes or situations involving food.
9. Excessive, rigid exercise regimen--despite weather, fatigue, illness, or injury, the need to “burn off” calories taken in.
10. Withdrawal from usual friends and activities.
11. In general, behaviors and attitudes indicating that weight loss, dieting, and control of food are becoming primary concerns.

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