Anorexia nervosa is characterized by a strong desire to lose weight due to the fear of becoming thin.
Here the person is on a low caloric restriction diet, and the person often assumes that he/she is overweight even though the person is underweight.
In the given situation, Katie is skipping meals and throwing away food and constantly losing weight, all these are the characteristic symptoms of anorexia nervosa as described above.
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