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Here is an example of her day yesterday: eggs and wheat toast for breakfast at home, turkey sandwich with pretzels and fruit at home for lunch. [b]Then she went to a friend’s house for a sleepover and had the following from 2pm on: fries and milkshake for a snack at the mall, popcorn and candy at the movies, chicken tenders and fries for dinner, and then they baked cupcakes and had those for dessert at her friend’s house.[/b] Again, this is not a one off, every weekend is starting to look like this and she and her friends also like to go to Dunkin or Starbucks after school some days as well.

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OP, how do you know all of this? How do you have a detailed list of what she ate while not in your presence? That screams red flag to me that you are being over controlling about her food. I know it's a delicate balance but please, coming from someone who has had an eating disorder her entire adult life, tread carefully. Being diligent about documenting everything I ate as a teenager ruined me for life. [/quote]

This stuck out to me too. Like her mother is asking her to account for what she ate while she was out. Not good.[/quote]

This is OP - the reason I know is because she has a debit card and I was looking at the charges for a different reason and saw charges at a food place in the mall and then at the movies and they were kind of expensive so I was trying to understand what she spent the money on and she told me. Then I asked her what she had for dinner after eating that and she told me about the rest and I told her that sounds like a lot of food for one day and she needs to think about making some healthier choices some of the time.[/quote]

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