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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did this all growing up and was very skinny (105 lbs and 5'2'' height), it's really not such a big deal? Sometimes for school lunch I'd eat 10 Chips ahoy cookies. [/quote]

Same here.  Not every weird thing a kid does is a sign of a disorder.  She's probably hungry, and chows down on cookies.  It's not ideal, but it doesn't mean she's irretrievably broken. [/quote]

No one here has said she is "irretrievably broken." But surely you can see why there are concerns that this child gets up IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT to sneak cookies. That is outside typical and healthy behavior around food.

For the 700th time: OP needs to seek out professional help from a therapist or nutritionist who works with kids to understand this behavior and come up with HEALTHY strategies to deal with the secrecy around food. [/quote]

This does not need a professional. The kid likes sweets and cookies, happened to be up in the night, realized this was a good time to sneak them and went and got cookies. I see nothing that requires professional intervention. Kids sneak things they want but have been told to limit / can't have, that is part of child development, not a pathology of illness.[/quote]

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