She's 5'3", and her normal weight is 113. She broke up with her BF around Christmas time, and lost about 10 pounds. What makes us think she's NOT suffering from an eating disorder is that she does NOT think she's fat, she KNOWS she needs to gain weight, and she eats. She's extremely PICKY, but she eats.
She just can't seem to put the weight back on. She seems to be so high-strung that she just burns off the calories.
She wants to gain weight, she doesn't like the way her clothes fit her, but the more she obsesses about the weight or others tell her she's looking skinny, the more upset she gets. So we've tried not to make a big deal out of it while making sure we're putting her favorite foods in front of her.
She has always been a very very very picky girl when it comes to eating. When she was a four or five, she'd eat Pepperidge Farm corn muffins for breakfast... every single day... for like a year. It's all she would eat. Then it was Cinnamon Toast Crunch for about a year. Then Cinnamon Toast Waffles for maybe 9 months. Then blueberry muffins for six months. She's always been this way.
In any event, it's my understanding that anorexics and bulemics both think they're actually fat or overweight; our daughter definitely knows she's too thin.
Any experience or insight you could give, however, would be gratefully received.
