Just tonight, she ate OVER a dozen choc chip cookies while watching TV and then downed a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Cookie Dough ice cream.
She has alienated literally all of her friends – says she wants to be left alone. She is angry and irritable ALL the time and seems to go out of her way to annoy others.
What is causing this? It is new behavior.
Your mom has an eating disorder…I am a nurse and have dealt with many people with eating disorders. People just assume you’re either anorexic or bulimic. But eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes. I would categorize your mother as having Binge Eating Disorder. To eat 12 cookies and then down it with pint of ice cream is not normal…its binging.
There’s something going on with her…I don’t know what, but there is something and you have to dig in deeper. There is a void inside her that needs to be filled, so she is filling it momentarily with food. And since she hears about being fat all the time, she probably feels like shit…so she is alienating herself from her friends and lashing out at the world. Again, since she is alienating herself and being alone, there’s a void >> again >> fills it up with food. An eating disorder goes way beyond FOOD. Its so much more than that. There’s something bigger triggering all this. Maybe you should figure that out first before focusing on how fat she is getting.
I know this because for 10 years, I suffered from one.