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Dealing with a mom who forces me to eat

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967 views 8 replies 6 participants last post by  Justmewtf  
#1 ·
I'm underage so I still have to live with my mom. She works from 2PM to 10PM almost every day so it's easy for me to fast in the afternoon. In the morning she'll try to make me eat breakfast. Usually I try to skip by pretending to take long getting ready and running out of time or telling her that I'll eat breakfast at the school cafeteria. These methods haven't worked as well recently and it's starting to piss me off. I think my mom is figuring out what's going on and that's the one thing I've tried to fucking prevent. Just great.
 
#2 ·
Maybe if you eat a low cal breakfast you’ll still be in a deficit and your mom will stop worrying and bothering you about it. Yogurt, cottage cheese, oatmeal, fruit, eggs, etc.
 
#3 ·
Is it possible to get something for breakfast and take it to school like a bar that you can put back without noticing?
 
#9 ·
The person who made this post is obviously not looking to recover. You can't not expect people to give advice like Detective L on a former pro-ana website. Honestly, it isn't even that bad of advice for a pro-ana site.
Maybe I'm already too old but I remember people regularly giving advice like this on here when I was a teen and that was seen as normal. If someone were to force feed me as a teen I'd not be okay with it even if it was only a cucumber and therefore relatively negligible in calories. It's the act of force feeding that'd stress me out. So that kind of advice wouldn't have helped me at all.
Then again everyone is different and if OP can eat something small than that's obviously a lot better than my suggestion. It kind of feels a little tone death tho. Eating is hard. Telling someone with an ED no matter the age to just eat something small may sound helpful but it is fricking hard when you're deep in your ED and can't bring yourself to do it even if you want to.
I see your point, it makes sense.
I think that you see the situation more from op's point of view because you're closer to her in age, whereas I'm about 15 years older.
That's the reason for my reaction.
I can't help but feeling very sad and upset when I read teenagers posts in here.

@thedownwardspiral sorry I didn't mean to infantilize you, take care