• Eating in private and avoiding meals with other people
• Anti-social behaviour, spending more and more time alone
• Secrecy around eating (e.g. saying they have eaten when they haven’t, hiding
uneaten food in their rooms)
• Compulsive or excessive exercising (e.g. exercising in bad weather, in spite of
sickness, injury or social events and experiencing distress if exercise is not possible)
• Radical changes in food preferences (e.g. suddenly disliking food they have always
enjoyed in the past, reporting of food allergies, food intolerances or becoming
vegetarian)