scared my best friend has an ED

Initial thought: You're scared that your friend has an Encyclopaedia Dramatica?

please keep anonamous

I am at uni at the moment, and so I don't go home very often.
I have just seen a photo of my best friend on facebook, and she looks like she has lost an awful lot of weight.
She did used to be rather overweight (about 16/18) but now she looks like a size 8/10.
I only have this photo to go off, and it may be the angle, but you can see bones sticking out etc.
She was recently proposed to in the summer, and i knew she wanted to lose a little weight, and at christmas she looked great, (size 10/12).
About a year and a 1/2 ago, she admitted she skipped the occaional meal, but i thought she was saying it to be dramatic. I obviously said that I thought it was the wrong way to go about losing weight, but tried not to make too big a deal of it.

I guess I just feel worried, because I haven't really be there for her, and I haven't spoken to her much since christmas due to uni work (poor excuse I know, hence feeling guilty) so I don't know if anything is wrong.
I don't know if I am making a big deal out of nothing, I have only seen this picture, but I just feel awful that if there is something wrong and she hasn't felt as though she could speak to me.
I really don't know what to do about this one.

You are exactly in my very same situation. And I don't know what to do, just like you,because I know that people with ED are very reluctant to talk about it and I just fear that she may move away from me.

i have text her, just to see how she is.
I am going home next week, and will obviously be seeing her then, but I just don't know how to talk to her about it. She just seems to have lost TOO much weight in too short a time.

and to the other posters, i thought ED was a common abriviation (sp) for eating disorder, sorry to dissapoint.

Maybe she hasn't got an ED, and has just purely lost weight, 8/10 isn't a weight to be worrying about :|
But if you are worried, then just keep an eye on her eating habits.

Just a quick question, when did she start losing weight? How fast has it gone off? 8/10 isn't tiny, but its only a problem if she's not eating. Getting from 16-12 isn't that hard to believe, so dropping (potentially) another dress size since christmas isn't so hard to believe either.

She started losing weight in about September, and the last time I saw her at the end of January, she looked like she had dropped a healthy amount of weight, from about an 18 to a 12/14, and she looked really good. But now her face looks slightly sunken, and as I said before her bones are starting to become visable. She comes from a large set family, and has the bone structure for someone with curves, but she looks a little bit too skinny now.

Obviously I will know more when I go back next week, but i'm just looking for advice on how to approach it should it turn out I am right.

Ah right, that does sound like too much too fast. Though don't say anything to her. I dropped close to a stone last year in a month, and when my friends commented, I passed it off as them being jealous. Try and support her without being outright about, however hard that sounds good luck!

That't the response I am most worried about. Ever since I have known her, I have always been the slimmer one (about a size 12). The main reason I am scared to bring it up is that she will think I am jealous of her, when I am not (I am quite happy with my weight/shape, apart from being a bit jiggly here and there but who isn't).
How am I meant to show her that I am just concerned, and that I am there for her if she needs me?