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[quote=Anonymous]We don't know what your &quot;disciplined dieting&quot; consists of.  But if you are already so lean that you look like you have an ED and still consider yourself to be endlessly &quot;dieting&quot; then that might warrant a closer look.

Your daughter is getting the message that you place great value on having a certain body type.  If she does not naturally have that body type, then she will get the message that there is something wrong with her body and she may try to change it - even if you don't think your food and exercise behaviors don't impact her because you try not to talk about them.

Could you tolerate having a child who is a normal, healthy weight but not skinny,  even though that body type might disgust you?  My perpetually dieting mom couldn't and as I hit the teen years, I got occasional loaded comments from her (I was not overweight or even close to it).  It didn't take much. I ended up being &lt;90 pounds in college.  It took me another 25+ years to normalize my relationship with food.

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