In addition, strange behaviors may develop due to starvation. A person with anorexia may enjoy cooking and baking for others, but will eat nothing herself. A person with anorexia often will eat only one food for days at a time, such as canned green beans. The more she can control her food the more in control she feels. Exercise may become an obsession.
Most anorexics never know they have a problem.
The physical symptoms of bulimia are often hidden for a long time. The bulimic will often be of normal weight, but sometimes fat or thin. After of period of bingeing and purging signs of the breakdown of the body will occur. If they self induce vomiting, their teeth will often decay and erode due to stomach acid reaching the teeth on a daily basis. The esophagus and throat will get raw and irritated.