The identifiable signs of sitophobia are given below-
- Having food at odd hours
- A tendency to have very small quantities of food during a normal meal
- Tendency to have food shortly after a meal
- An intense urge to have massive quantities of food even if the stomach is full (rare)
- Feeling hungry even after a full meal
- An intense desire to have food rich in carbohydrate, starch and sugar, while completely avoiding normal food
- A complex about one’s body weight, size and shape
- Abnormal weight loss or gain
- A very poor or an abnormally high appetite
- Feeling of guilt or shame while having food
- Starving oneself more often
- A tendency to vomit the ingested food, more often as a compensatory mechanism of overeating
- An unusual obsession over body image and what other people are saying about their external appearance