Patty is 5 feet tall and weighs 87 pounds yet when she looks in the mirror, she sees an overweight girl. she does aerobics for two hours daily and eats very little. patty most likely suffers from:

Patty most likely suffers from an eating disorder called anorexia nervosa. It is an eating disorder that is characterized by a lack of weight gain or weight loss. People with this disorder would restrict themselves to a certain number of calories and the food they eat. Also, they would tend to compulsively exercise, purge out the food they had eaten by laxatives or vomiting and binge eat. There are two main types of anorexia namely the purge type and the restrictive type. This eating disorder is found to be one of the most common chronic disorder among adolescents together with diabetes and asthma.