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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you ask parents of kids with eating disorders how the eating disorder started, many of them will tell you it started with a kid who used to eat normally (the same way as the family), then the child went vegetarian, then vegan, and then "vegan healthy" which is basically eating nothing but air.

If your child is anything like that -- my advice to you is to intervene NOW.  Even before it gets to a point where the child is losing weight or failing to gain weight.  Anorexia and other eating disorders like ARFID are horrible and hard to cure, and the longer they go on the more they become entrenched and the harder they are to cure.  If you intervene before it is even something anyone will diagnose you will save yourself and your child some years of heartache.

Follow your gut.  If your picky teen never wanted to eat bread with seeds on it, but now wants to eat whole grain bread with sprouted nuts, mozzarella from grass fed cows and heirloom organic tomatoes with some cold pressed olive oil and basil -- if that's what she means by healthy -- plenty of calories, no problem.   But if she is picking off the bread from a sandwich and just eating a slice or two of turkey and some lettuce... that's not enough food.

Don't let "healthy eating" mean "eating nothing"[/quote]

Op here. Kid is a healthy weight and not disordered. I suspect it’s peer pressure but she isn’t going to starve herself.[/quote]

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