Can Mother’s Obsessive/Compulsive Behavior Add Body Fat or Cause Weight Loss?
In this story of Sally, what obsessive/compulsive behaviors might lead to the following eating disorders of extreme weight loss or bingeing with added body fat? Sally is a grandmother who lives in a retirement home. She’s found sneaking her favorite meal of whip cream smothered over chocolate ice cream. Her diet habits from childhood are still wreaking havoc on her life decades later. Sally’s mother had obsessive/compulsive behaviors. How might this acting out by eating sweets be driven by denied guilt? Maybe the answers can be found in the following story. 1. An adult child is in the grip of guilt that eats away at her core. She obsesses about food constantly. She’s in the trash finding the crumbed cookies she just bought and threw away hoping she could stop eating them. She can’t stop this eating disordered behavior. 2. The adult daughter is now a mother of two daughters, six and eight years old. She tells them both how bad ice cream and refined sugar is for them. She does everything
