The symptoms of anorexia will revolve around the refusal to maintain a normal weight, the fear of gaining weight, the distorted vision that in the anorexic person of his physical appearance and the negation of the severity of the thinness. 

• Food restriction 
• Obsessive fear of gaining weight
• Significant weight loss
• Frequent weighings
• Taking diuretics, laxatives or enemas
• Missing periods or amenorrhea
• Intensive sports practice
• Isolation
• Vomiting after eating 
• Scrutinize in the mirror the parts of his body perceived as “fat”
• Lack of awareness of the medical consequences of losing weight

In the literature, we often find two types of anorexia nervosa:

Restrictive type anorexia:

This type of anorexia is mentioned when the anorexic person does not resort to purgative behaviors (vomiting, taking laxatives, etc.) but to a very strict diet with intensive physical exercise. 

Anorexia with binge eating:

Some people have both symptoms of anorexia nervosa and bulimia, including compensatory behavior (taking purgatives, vomiting). In this case, we are not talking about bulimia but anorexia with binge eating.