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[quote=Anonymous]I did this at that age. Unfortunately I never grew out of it, and still do it as a 40 year old. I’m not overweight and my binges don’t catch up to me because I’m active, but it’s definitely an eating disorder. It started when I was a 10 or 11 and my parents separated and my mom sort of gave up and I had to be responsible for a lot of stuff. There  was never enough packable food for me to make a hearty lunch, and I was starving after school and would eat whatever the quickest, easiest food was. My mom often restricted anything snackable because of her own weight struggles so I would sometimes eat a huge stack of plain slices of bread or undercooked plain pasta that is microwave in a mug because I wasn’t allowed to use the stove. I had an underweight sibling who was always being pushed to eat more, and nothing was said to me, so I think I internalized it as a message about me weighing too much. I definitely snacked in secret in the hopes of also being perceived as being “cute” and “tiny” when I didn’t ask for seconds at actual meals. Then I had some social failures in middle school, so eating lunch alone and in secret (in the bathroom or library) escalated my already weird eating habits.

I tell you all of this, OP, bc I think that there is probably more than one reason for this and they all feed each other so it’s tough to unwind. I wish someone had noticed my distress and how it expresses itself. You are a good mother for noticing and caring and trying to help. [/quote]

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