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oP. You owe your daughter better coping skills than you are teaching.  You need to teach her (or get help teaching her) that food is nourishment and not entertainment.  She needs to find five protein-rich snacks that she can eat without gagging and then she needs to learn to carry what she needs.

Your daughters blood sugar issues are real, but exacerbated by her complex relationship with food.

Now accept who she is and teach her the skills she needs.
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This is actually really good advice, OP.

My child is a picky eater and when he gets overly hungry he just withdraws from life and hides.   Funny, he doesn't eat food.   He doesn't want food, the hungrier he is.   And he gets pickier, the hungrier he is.

Now that he is older I have been working with him exactly as the PP said, to teach him he has to eat for sustenance, food is fuel; not necessarily eat because it tastes good or even acceptable.   He just has to choke it down sometimes.   And this is an important life skill -- not to allow yourself to get too hungry.    Find high protein, high fat and high calories foods she can eat and makes sure she knows to bring some with her to practice.

If she can't fuel her body she cannot do her sport.   She's likely also going through some major growth spurts which require a ton of energy as well.[/quote]

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