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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why wouldn’t you? It’s a sickness. Nothing to do with you, and lying about doctor’s appointments is not your business. [/quote]

For me, it was that a co-worker was obsessed about food. She almost seemed to want to fatten other people up. And she had a LOT of emotion invested in "just being genetically this way" while we could hear her throwing up after parties, or see her gulping liters of bone broth. It's not pleasant to be around. [/quote]

That behavior is not a symptom of anorexia.

I am the recovered anorexic above and I never comment on what others are eating (except my kids- as in, eat more veggies, yogurt, less sugar- normal parenting stuff).

I can be sensitive about people commenting on what I eat if it comes from judgement, but I will generally just avoid people who do what the person you describe above is doing when they start with the judgement. Since this is a coworker, if you walk away when they do this, eventually they will stop the comments.[/quote]

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