Starting a new diet including interest in “healthy,” “clean,” “low-carb” etc diets

Avoiding certain food groups for health/diet reasons or due to taste/texture preference

Avoiding situations that include eating in a group or an unnatural focus on what others eat

Inflexibility about what or when or how much to eat

Fixation on food’s calorie content

Absence during family meals; visiting the bathroom or showering immediately after meals

New interest in cooking without eating the food

Secretive or ritualistic eating

Rigidity around certain ingredients, brands, food preparations, or utensils

A longer list of foods your child won’t eat than your child will eat

Long history of “picky” eating that has gotten worse over time

Struggling to eat or eat enough food

Frequent stomach pain or other gastrointestinal complaints

Flat affect or absence of emotion

Irritability

Mood swings

Hyperactivity and restlessness

Increased rigidity or anxiety

Exercising intensely but without joy

Expressing or showing a need to exercise to compensate for eating

Driven exercise: exercising while sick or in bad weather conditions

Failure to gain weight or height according to growth curve

Weight loss at any time during childhood or adolescence (even if starting at higher weight)

Fainting, weakness, dehydration

Injuries from overexercise

Requiring nutritional supplements to grow or treat nutritional deficiencies

A strong belief that one’s body is too “large” (or “too” anything)

Self-criticism for eating or not exercising

Ongoing requests or desire for reassurance about physical appearance

Fear of “over-eating” or gaining weight from a particular meal

An inability to recognize that they may be ill (anosognosia)

Fears of choking, vomiting, pain, or getting ill after eating

Unfounded fears of allergic reaction from eating safe foods

Social withdrawal or disinterest

Concern that social peers are judgmental

Inability to describe emotions; becoming more childlike in some ways