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[quote=Anonymous]If she’s already sneaking food and binging, she is in fact doing this a lot more than you know.  I was like this — I know.  The only thing that can curb that is her having the knowledge that she can eat whatever she wants whenever she wants it and then her making the choice to control it.  Any restrictions you put on will simply be things she strategized to avoid.  Giving her coping strategies is good— but she has to be the one to choose to implement them.  Family activities that are exercise is also good.

I’ve had some success with my DD with this.  I tried to control her food more when she was young, so she wouldn’t have my weight problems, but backed off by middle school as I could see that I was causing her to sneak food.  She ate what she wanted.  I gave her some suggestions about what she could do if she wanted — e.g.  order something at Starbucks with friends but throw away half of it; decide not to eat after 8 pm.   She was overweight for awhile, but active and healthy.  Later in high school, she took control herself and lost weight.   She seems to not have any troubling food habits now. Good luck.[/quote]

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