Hello!
I'm worried about a friend. She's going through some hard times right now. A lot of life-changing events and stress. I just found out that she's drastically changing her diet, by eliminating a lot of foods. I'm worried that she's concentrating on denying herself food as a way to deal with the stress.
On the one hand, maybe she's making a decision to drastically change her diet so that she can be healthier. Maybe she's making the change now because her life is in transition and now is a good time to start a new habit.
On the other hand, her new food restriction at a time when she doesn't have control over anything else seems suspicious. Her behavior is exactly what comes to mind when I imagine an anorexic person who needs to feel in control and uses food to have that feeling.
I don't want to
confront her and say out loud what I'm thinking, because I'm afraid I'll offend her. She never said anything when I gained weight, and I really appreciated that. So I don't want to bring up the topic of whether her diet decisions are the result of her stress... ya know?
Yeah, I know her life is within her control, not mine. But I wish there were something I could do.