[loverofdreams]

pretty sure my mom has an eating disorder and is just in denial. my sister struggled with some sort of ed after she went to the military, but she didn't specify which though she did have orthorexic tendencies when she lived at home w us.

 

[lady_vanilla]

my entire father side has binging disorder except for my grandpa who i suspect had anorexia. my aunt from my mom's side was anorexic too, but our family never accepted that as a fact - they think she was thin out of her own spite. i think she was around bmi 13-14 almost for three years then gained after meeting her partner and never lost that much again. still i remember her fasting while she was pregnant and fainting occasionally because she would feel terrified about how her body looks from the pregnancy bump.

my mom's side is a horrible trigger for having an ed though. growing up i heard my mom and close relatives constantly body-shaming others or each other whether thin or fat. my grandma was the worst. she would make my brother cry all the time because he was overweight in his teens and couldn't lose regardless of the diets he tried. whenever she saw me and my sis she'd check whether we gained or not then if we didn't she'd say we are just short and that's why we are always tiny. And my mom would watch us eat our food as a kid i would never eat bread, greasy food, or rice too much due to my digestion issues so shed make a big deal of it and complain it to my father then my father would get verbally abusive for us being ungrateful. I remember her often telling me that she was too thin and had low appetite in my age like me but everything changed after getting married to my father (a binger) and giving birth to me and my siblings.

 

[Dense decisions]

My Dad would tell me about how he used to be really underweight and how his relatives would point out the bones. He did the same to me. He never mentioned the low sleep needs like I have had, or had any experience fasting, but I think there might be something genetic. Next time he bring s it up I mught ask why he was underweight but I am unlikely to learn too much from that.

 

[yasha]

yeah, my mom.

it's why she's caught onto my ED from a young age. as i get older, see more pictures of my mom as a teen/young adult, and hear more from my mom about how she was sooo underweight, i realize the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in my case. she's not uw anymore and seems recovered but still talks about food/weight constantly, and says she misses what she looked like back then(which looked to be a bmi of 15 or so)

 

[user42069]

not that i'm aware of, but my parents have a pretty unhealthy relationship with food (which has def affected me more through their behavior than genetics -- they're always talking about calories and weight loss which has made me hyper aware of my body and has given me a terrible relationship with food as well) kind of a nurture vs nature thing in my case

 

[unworthyvoid]

as far as i know no, however my mom used to CONSTANTLY make bad comments about her body and how her parents would insult her on it, and when she started her new meds for bipolar last year she kept saying the meds made her gain a lot. her freely and often insulting her own body as i grew up definitely impacted my view of my body. oh and my sibling has mentioned eating can be hard before during one of our talks about our mental health and despising mom, but idk how much there is going on there for them

 

[sleepyfaefae]

my dad's side is very borderline pro ana and they don't realize it. They really triggered me a lot. I don't like being around them, they're so two faced.

 

[Abmomma]

I suspect my paternal grandfather as he's extremely picky about what he eats and can drink beer, eat snack cakes, white bread, and lunch meats without gaining a pound.

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[Transparent_Ana]

My grandmother died of complications of AN when my mom was 5. Which resulted to be hell for me, because my mother grew up thinking that if you are thin, you die, and she didn't want to lose another loved one, so she drove me mental when I was younger and still living with my parents.

 

[Diettea123]

My sister is AN b/p, my cousin had bulimia (sadly, she died at just 32), my paternal grandma is a chronic dieter as well as my paternal 2nd cousin.

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[Emptyspirits]

Nope i'm the odd one out. I guess my great grandma abused laxatives and dieretics but that was more popular in the 80's she died when I was 5 though. Not sure if it was due to the abuse.

My mother (adopted mom): I think she has binge eating disorder - she closet eats and always complains about weight/ crash diets/ dieted thru my adolescent years. talks about eating healthy all the time but no diagnosed ED.

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