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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would not accommodate anorexia. That’s like buying bottles of liquor to accommodate an alcoholic. Let her figure it out.[/quote]

So....the difference between alcoholism and anorexia is that alcoholics ingest things they shouldn't, and anorexics do not ingest things when they should.

The right way to help an alcoholic is to not provide alcohol.  The right way to help an anorexic is to provide calories they will eat, or at a minimum let them eat the calories they are comfortable with.[/quote]

The op is providing calories. You are wrong. [/quote]

First, OP didn't say (and actually doesn't know) whether her sister is anorexic.  She eats a limited diet....as do a lot of people these days.

Second, there have been millions of posts about people hosting others who have restrictions.  The universal answer here has always been to provide them something minimal (which has been suggested here) or to let them bring their own food.

For some reason the fact that this is a sister and/or the fact that OP characterizes it as an ED is skewing the answers.

It is not hard to grill chicken and have a salad, or to let her bring and prepare her own food.

Anything else is rooted in some kind of spite or dynamic that has nothing at all to do with the food.[/quote]

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