Why can bulimics hide their disease better than anorexics?

Why can bulimics hide their disease better than anorexics?

Well, I think they can because usually they stay within 5 or 10% of normal body weight. Because their eating is such that they usually have a wider array, although they tend to have sweet and carbohydrate preference. They do tend to have a wider array of food selection so that one doesn't see things like hair falling out, extreme emaciation, changes in the color of their vitality or their paleness and so on. So it's less noticeable. In other words, you can notice it less. What is noticed often is secretive behavior, suddenly leaving the social engagement where there is eating. The individual is in the lavatory regurging it. So one can get other kinds of clues. Sometimes on the back of the hand there's a red mark from putting the finger down the throat and so on. You have to be more of a Sherlock Holmes to pick that up in bulimia. In anorexia, it stares you in the face