Have you talked to a dietican? I know that he/she would help your daughter construct meal plans that are balanced and healthy. She needs helps relearning how to eat, and sometimes someone who isn't involved so closely can approach it from a different perspective. Do you think she would be willing to go? With you? On her own?
My heart goes out to you and your family. It is so good to get the help and talk about this openly.
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CANADIANBUG 1/20/08 10:17 A
If you are making something that is of a sauce texture you could stir in some powdered milk. Of course take your portion out first then just stir it in - she probably wouldn't even notice the differece. you can add to creamy type soups, puddings, milkshakes, smoothies, gravies, pretty much anything! Good luck!
JUST_TERE 1/20/08 7:22 A
I did do a search about this, truly, but didn't see any other posts on the topic, so I'll throw this out.
Do any of you have teens with an eating disorder? My daughter, age 17, has been diagnosed with one, and this is so upsetting, to see your child literally starve herself.
With me eating low-cal, healthy foods most of the time now, I want to figure out a way for me to add calories to her healthy eating. This child packs away food like crazy, but loses weight (she's no longer in the bathroom vomiting, thank heavens, and we don't have the laxatives, etc., that are the typical tools for weight loss) anyway. She's on a mild anti-depressant, but has still lost weight over the holidays. Don't hate her, you truly would NOT want to be in her shoes.
Any ideas on how I can add calories for HER, but still healthy ones? I want to get away from that which I have been buying her, like Bagel Bites, etc., because of all the salt and fat. But, she'll eat those and doesn't vomit them up.
She'll be started DBT therapy, hopefully next month, and while she's been on the wait list, has had weekly visits with a therapist in his office, and a team of clinicians comes to the house 2x a week. (Don't even ASK how much this costs, because if not for insurance there's the poorhouse for ya!) The clinicians have been extended once by the insurance, and that's all we can have, one extension. That extension is up on the 31st.
These folks are doing VERY well on her self-esteem issues (she's a people pleaser and when she tries to please and people aren't pleased, it kills her emotionally), but there's NO help on the eating issues.
Rather than fill her up with empty calories and salt and fat and all those killer things, I want her to learn to eat more healthily. No, insurance does NOT pay for that, and I need to learn, too.
Any ideas where I can go for help with this?
Thanks.
P.S.: I'm so proud of this child, I cannot find the words, but she of course, doesn't pay any attention to this. How far she's come is just amazing, and her doctors are literally jaw dropped in astonishment, because they totally underestimated her WILL to get better!
