How to hide it.

I've recently had to use a lot of these.

FROM PARENTS AND FAMILY
1. Eat in your room wherever possible.
Make an excuse like you have homework, you need to research something, or you want to watch something on your TV while you eat. Take the food upstairs and every ten minutes tip a quarter of it into a bag/bin you keep in your room. take the plate down when it's empty, with a little bit left on it (so they think you're full).

2. When family aren't around, prepare food, leave the dishes near the sink and dispose of the food in a way that it won't be found. As before, leave a bit of food on the plate, so that it seems you have a small appetite.

3. At weekends and during the holidays, spend as much time away from home as possible. Tell friends you ate at home, and parents you ate with friends.

FROM FRIENDS:
1. When out with friends, mention that you ate at home before meeting them, but only if the subject of lunch/dinner comes up. Don't be the first to bring it up. Say you ate something you wouldn't actually touch, like take-away, cake, crisps etc.

2. Say you ate a really big breakfast, like a full english, or a sunday fry up, and you're full

3. Keep antacids around to keep the growling from your empty stomach from becoming noticable. You can tell friends that you have heartburn from a spicy meal.

4. Chew gum! Then if you're offered food you can decline, food tends to taste really bad when you have a minty taste in your mouth.

AT SCHOOL/COLLEGE/WORK
1. Spend next to no time in the canteen area wherever possible. Go to the library or the nearest clothes shop and distract yourself.

2. Drink coffee! You can tell people you're not hungry from breakfast but drinking a hot drink will give them affirmation that you're looking after yourself, and it will give you energy.

3. Socialise. Keep yourself busy all through your lunch break so you don't have a chance to break your resolve.

AT THE DOCTORS:
1. Drink plenty of water before you go. This will help flush the ketones out of your bloodstream, give you a bit more weight from the tanking, and prevent your stomach from rumbling.

2. Dress warmly, your temperature will be higher.

3. Do something stressful immediately beforehand to raise your blood pressure.

4. If you're having a blood test, eat something small but nutritious (like fruit or yoghurt) within a few hours of your appointment - your mineral levels will be closer to a normal rate, since you should have been fasting for the whole morning before the bloodwork is taken.

I hope these help, I know they help me all the time.