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Little sister's eating habits...

Have resorted to doing a thread on here in the hope that someone in-the-know will be able to tell me if this behaviour is suspicious...
My little sister has recently lost a lot of weight. My mum claims this was because she went on cadet camp (ok she did lose some weight there due to all the extra exercise) and getting 'ill' (this was last week, she was 'ill' for a couple of days when she stayed in bed for 2 days and didnt eat anything). However, she keeps half-eating stuff and leaving it in the fridge to 'finish later' but no-one ever sees her finish it and I suspect it just goes in the bin. She claims to eat late at night, but I usually hear people in the kitchen and only hear her making one of those instant cup of soup things. My naive mother thinks that she is level-headed and sensible enough to eat properly, but to be honest she isn't sensible at all. I'm worried she's developing an eating disorder or something, can someone say whether this behaviour sounds a bit dodgy? :frown:

Any advise would be hugely appriciated.
Edit: She's 14 btw

Reply 1

xXMessedUpXx

15

It does sound somewhat susicious, however i'm not sure how advisable direct cofrontation would be. Tho perhaps you could ask her about how she' feeling about herself etc? I don't kow a great deal about ED's (well except from what i studied at A level and my loss of apitite when i get depressed) so i don't wnnat to give the wrong advice. I'm sure someone can direct you in the right direction tho. I'd keep an eye on her tho.

Reply 2

Fluffy

15

How long has this been going on - if she has been ill, it is entirely possible that she hasn't got her appetite back.

Have a chat with her...

Reply 3

Cate

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Fluffy

How long has this been going on - if she has been ill, it is entirely possible that she hasn't got her appetite back.

Have a chat with her...

Only in the past month I've noticed it properly. The thing is, she wasn't actually properly ill. She'd eaten an entire pack of starbursts on night and felt sick the next day, so stayed in bed for a few days not eating.
Also, she used to be quite overweight and people put quite a lot of emphasis on how she shouldnt eat so much cos it was bad for her... and now that she's lost weight, mum keeps saying she looks 'fantastic' etc, I'm worried this might encourage her to try to lose more weight? :frown:

I would have a chat with her, but she really doesn't seem to like me much :frown:

Maybe I'll get my sis to...

Reply 4

LPK

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xXMessedUpXx

It does sound somewhat susicious, however i'm not sure how advisable direct cofrontation would be. Tho perhaps you could ask her about how she' feeling about herself etc? I don't kow a great deal about ED's (well except from what i studied at A level and my loss of apitite when i get depressed) so i don't wnnat to give the wrong advice. I'm sure someone can direct you in the right direction tho. I'd keep an eye on her tho.

From what i have heard, that would be a bad idea. :eek:

Reply 5

toiletwall

this may not be the best idea, But you could maybe alert your mum to it? Possibly in a more subtle way though, such as "have you noticed how much weight she's lost" (okay that isn't particularly subtle but i'm sure you can think of better ways of phrasing it than me), and hopefully maybe when she eats dinner etc people can keep an eye on what she's eating?

Reply 6

Cate

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toiletwall

this may not be the best idea, But you could maybe alert your mum to it? Possibly in a more subtle way though, such as "have you noticed how much weight she's lost" (okay that isn't particularly subtle but i'm sure you can think of better ways of phrasing it than me), and hopefully maybe when she eats dinner etc people can keep an eye on what she's eating?

I did mention it to mum earlier... who seems to think little sis is sensible and nothings wrong... however mum is very naive...

Reply 7

Bambi

I used to be anorexic and told people I would eat things when I wouldn't but I would be far more secretive, I would never have let anyone know that I hadn't eaten anything for 2 days. Maybe she is a bit upset about something and is doing it to get a bit of attention rather than developing an eating disorder. However, having said that if whatever it is that's upsetting her isn't dealt with then just wanting a bit of attention can easily lead to a full blown eating disorder and that is in fact often the way these things start. Don't get worried too much yet, watch her for a week or so and see if things get back to normal. If they don't talk to her.

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