What is actually considered as anorexic? do anorexics eat anything at all? or literally nothing?

Question

like how do you diagnose someone as anorexic? do most anorexics actually eat nothing at all, or just literally salad?

Answer 1

anorexic is someone who eat very little and is at an extremley low body weight, some anorexics eat but it is very little usually less than 500 calories

Answer 2

they can eat very little or nothing at all. they might purge to get rid of what they've eaten. they are very very obsessed with their body image, thinking they look fat even if they're underweight. & they do anything, like starving themselves to be slim.

Answer 3

Anorexics eat veeeeeeerry little, like next to nothing.

For example:

10 corn flakes

3 squares of chocolate

or

3 heads of lettuce

or 1/4 of a sandwhich

or

10 almonds

And yeah, I thinkyou get the picture?

Some also just eat tiny bits of one thing, or eat no fat or carbs or something.

It is very sad.

Answer 4

Anorexics basically eat nothing or next to nothing.  They think that any food besides like salad will make them fat, and that even too much salad will make them fat.  They also have an extremely distorted body image.  They will seriously be like "I'm so obese" when they're stick thin.  However, there are also girls I know that are either seeking attention or a self-esteem boost, and talk about how fat they are just so everyone will say, "No you're not, you're so skinny!".  Such girls will keep normal eating habits but continue to talk about how fat they supposedly are.  You can usually tell anorexics with a combination of these things, as well as if the person has suffered dramatic weight loss (i.e. overweight to deathly skinny in a matter of months).

Answer 5

I don't  know what is actually considered anorexic but I have read that if you eat 500 cal or less per day then you are headed for anorexia.  I think they do eat some stuff - some more than others, but it is really limited in calorie and fat