Hi,
I am posting out of desperation. I stumbled across your site tonight and a lot of the tips I read about, I realised I have seen over the years with my step mother.
She is 10 years older than me and started LL in May 2006. It's now June 2010 and she has bones protruding everywhere, really bad dry and lots of saggy skin. She looks boyish now and doesn't look healthy at all.
She thrives on exercise and will exercise for hours before and after work.
Anyway, LLC kept on selling it to her up until late last year. I couldn't believe it. Not sure how LL works in THAT respect but absolutely anyone in their right mind could see that she was grossly underweight and should be put back onto eating standard food, not being sold the packets.
It took a visit from my dad to the LLC to say enough was enough. I can't understand though why a LLC would continue to sell the products and more to the point am concerned that she still could secretly be buying it as she never has any money!
Things have got so bad that step mum can't hold a logical conversation from start to finish, she wears thick puffa type jackets on the beach and is still cold.
She wears tight skinny legings, showing off her legs. Lots of make up. Hair is thinner and nails are acrylic (probably cos she has lost quality of them).
She constantly (at least once every 2 months) has a knock or accident in the car with kids in it at times - as she cannot concentrate.
She is a very controlling person and I know a family death upset her, however - I am at a loss to understand HOW and WHY this would start in the first place.
She was a size 24 and 5ft9 ish.
She is now probably a size 8 if I am guessing lucky - could be a 6 or something.
Her children are starting to follow the same patterns of eating and they are teenagers. One (I only recently found out) was self harming last year.
The reason I am writing this is because I need help. I don't know WHAT TO DO. She says she is going for bone tests through doctors and on waiting list for eating disorder clinic but aparently there are far worse people out there who are near the top of clinic's list.
I can't sit by watching her screw up the kids. She's an adult and if she wants to do this to herself then she needs to take responibility for her actions. However, she is impacting upon her kids (my step bro and sis) and my dad and they are all in termoil.
Step mum keeps cancelling doctors appointments and now has dental problems too (from purging).
Can someone please provide some advice? I was told my ex-nurse that she is likely to be at risk of a heart attack at this rate.
Thanks
~Webby:wave_cry:
I am posting out of desperation. I stumbled across your site tonight and a lot of the tips I read about, I realised I have seen over the years with my step mother.
She is 10 years older than me and started LL in May 2006. It's now June 2010 and she has bones protruding everywhere, really bad dry and lots of saggy skin. She looks boyish now and doesn't look healthy at all.
She thrives on exercise and will exercise for hours before and after work.
Anyway, LLC kept on selling it to her up until late last year. I couldn't believe it. Not sure how LL works in THAT respect but absolutely anyone in their right mind could see that she was grossly underweight and should be put back onto eating standard food, not being sold the packets.
It took a visit from my dad to the LLC to say enough was enough. I can't understand though why a LLC would continue to sell the products and more to the point am concerned that she still could secretly be buying it as she never has any money!
Things have got so bad that step mum can't hold a logical conversation from start to finish, she wears thick puffa type jackets on the beach and is still cold.
She wears tight skinny legings, showing off her legs. Lots of make up. Hair is thinner and nails are acrylic (probably cos she has lost quality of them).
She constantly (at least once every 2 months) has a knock or accident in the car with kids in it at times - as she cannot concentrate.
She is a very controlling person and I know a family death upset her, however - I am at a loss to understand HOW and WHY this would start in the first place.
She was a size 24 and 5ft9 ish.
She is now probably a size 8 if I am guessing lucky - could be a 6 or something.
Her children are starting to follow the same patterns of eating and they are teenagers. One (I only recently found out) was self harming last year.
The reason I am writing this is because I need help. I don't know WHAT TO DO. She says she is going for bone tests through doctors and on waiting list for eating disorder clinic but aparently there are far worse people out there who are near the top of clinic's list.
I can't sit by watching her screw up the kids. She's an adult and if she wants to do this to herself then she needs to take responibility for her actions. However, she is impacting upon her kids (my step bro and sis) and my dad and they are all in termoil.
Step mum keeps cancelling doctors appointments and now has dental problems too (from purging).
Can someone please provide some advice? I was told my ex-nurse that she is likely to be at risk of a heart attack at this rate.
Thanks
~Webby:wave_cry:
