My mom wants me to starve myself?

[Anonymous]

She knows I make myself throw up and I starve sometimes. I’m trying to stop doing it, and I’ve been getting better, but it seems like my mom wants me to starve.

Once when I hadn’t eaten for 42 hours she told me not to eat breakfast because I “could wait a little longer”.
Just today I hadn’t eaten for 7 hours (lack of appetite; I think I’m coming down with a cold), and I finally had a tiny bowl of chicken for supper. When I went downstairs to drop off my bowl (and make a little salad too) she stopped me and was passive aggressive about how I “took a huge bunch of the chicken” (I swear, it was 1/3 of a cup of diced chicken cubes, not a lot).

She only ever seems proud of me when I lose weight or when I don’t eat (“exercise willpower”, as she puts it).

please help me...

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TLDR, my mom often tells me not to eat even if I haven’t for a long time, and when I do eat, she gets upset and claims that I ate too much. This is mostly a vent post, but I really want to know what I can do. She’ll never stop doing it, so how do I build up some defence so she won’t hurt me anymore?

[Veronica101]

I'm sorry, i really don't know what to say. I would say don't listen to her, but I'm sure you know that by now. When i used to purge, i used to keep myself busy by immersing myself in books and running. I memorized bible verses and repeated them to myself when i felt i would succumb to my urges

[DoddBless]

You seem to have a better head than your mother, stop starving yourself and confront her about it - your health is way more important than your looks

[BrianMerritt]

Are you fat? If you are, then fasting might be what you need.

[Gawblin]

Your mum is a true role model.