Posted by stresser on December 23, 2004, at 20:25:07
In reply to Elizabeth Steinhauer, MD, posted by anneL on December 22, 2004, at 22:29:18
I just read your post and can relate to your struggle with your daughter. My daughter was never anorexic, but did diet and lose weight a couple of years ago. Since then, she has put on weight continually and has developed a binge eating problem. She is also 5'6, but weights around 170. She works out, and has put on muscle in place of fat, and that's a plus...so we are holding steady for now. (she had her body fat taken) Does your daughter excercise? Muscule does weight more than fat, and maybe she doesn't have much fat. When my daughter weighed 140 she looked great, and would love to weight that again. I sometimes think that the darn diet my daughter went on to begin with started this whole thing.....I supported it, like I thought I was supposed to do. I don't know if that was the right thing to do,....looking back now. It seems the more you tell them they need to eat healthy foods, the more they sneak and eat garbage. We have our daughter seeing a Physcologist, and hope that we can get this under control. It does devistate a family, I know, my nerves are in shambles, and it seems to worry me constantly. Feel free to babble mail me if you want to talk more. -L
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