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[quote=Anonymous]I would say these are signs of an eating disorder and my best advice is to follow your gut mom instinct in this situation.  I dealt with this last year with my then 7th grade daughter - age 12.  She commented on how other girls are skinnier and that she didn't look good in any clothes.  She started not wanting fruit because it was sweet and not having peanut butter because it reminded her of frosting.  She found excuses as to why she couldn't eat most foods.  I then found that she was hiding food in her room whenever I gave her things to eat.  She dropped 12 pounds in 6 weeks...and her peditrician wasn't too worried because she was at the low end of her BMI.  I didn't listen to the peditrician and took her to a therapist and in turn wound up pulling her from school and putting her in intensive out patient therapy.  She was there for 4 months and it was awful trying to refeed her to get her back to a healthy weight.  I wish I had followed the early signs when she was commenting about how other looked and how she didn't like how she looked.  I only had to endure watching her suffer from anorexia for 6 straight months - but it was hell.  With eating disorders...the early you intervene the more chance you have of recovering and not relapsing.  She has been recovered now for 4 months....and she is back to a normal, healthy teenager.  But I truly think she was able to recovery because of early intervention.  Trust your gut and try to at least start with some therapy before it escalates out of your control.  [/quote]

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