Anorexia is a disease of loss — not only of weight, while it is usually the most apparent. So often the severity of one’s disorder is measured according to this one marker, the number of pounds shed, the digits on the scale, the steepness of the drop on a chart. However, the loss caused by anorexia is so much more than weight. It is a loss of health, a decay of the body: loss of hair, loss of bone density, loss of muscle mass, loss of menstrual cycle, loss of hunger signals and loss of metabolic processes, among other bodily systems and functions.
