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Originally Posted by khrussva
AOne day, I discovered my wife had hidden a huge unopened bag of Halloween candy in the closet. Stuck in a life of constantly craving food, I still managed to resist getting into it for quite some time (weeks). Then one day, the craving was more powerful than the willpower and I broke open the bag. Once that happened, the bag was destine to be emptied in short order.
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This reminds me of one of my sisters when she was 17. She would eat any carby thing that was not nailed down. Leftovers were never safe unless you hid them in your own dresser drawer or something.
My other sister (who is 6 feet tall, considers herself "fat" and goes on a diet if her weight hits 140, and who can stare food in the face for weeks without even thinking about it one way or the other) who was also a teen at the time had bought a bunch of quality chocolates to give to various friends for either Valentine's Day or Easter (I forget which). It would not bother her at all to have chocolate sitting in her bedroom for months on end, so she bought these a few at a time, and then wrapped them all up with tissue paper and ribbons and bows, and had them sitting on a shelf in her room. Until one day other sister came in and ATE THEM ALL - ripped all the wrapping and ribbons to shreds and ate every single piece of candy! Skinny sister went ballistic as it had taken her months to save the money to buy all the candy, and in one afternoon it was all gone.
If we ever had cake or pie leftover from anything it would be gone the next day, ditto pizza or anything just about, Even though I call myself a carb addict I never did that. But this sister ate everyone's food. She remained skinny though as she also developed a bulemia problem and had a constant binge/purge cycle - and when confronted about missing foods would deny that she had eaten them or touched them.
My parents, at their wits end, finally took her to a psychiatrist. Luckily they found a good one (after one false start with a dreadful one). He listened to everyone's stories and spent some time with my sister, and then said he felt her problem was physiological, not psychological. He referred her to a doctor who specialized in nutrition. This doctor put her on a wheat-free, sugar-free diet. For some reason she was willing to listen to the doctor even though not her parents - and my parents would never have suggested wheat-free, sugar-free anyway. They just screamed "why can't you control yourself!"
On the WF/SF diet her moods stabilized, she went back to school (she had dropped out) and got all A's and B's. She became like a different person. But it all depended on getting her to the right doctor. I don't know what options you might have for getting her to see someone outside the family whose option she might trust - and of course that you would trust also. It's not easy to find someone suggesting a WF/SF attempt!
Sadly, in some ways, it's still a big struggle for my sister. That was 40 years ago that she had that epiphany, and she was good about sticking with it for a few years. But she still loves her carbs. To this day she jokes that she knows the location of every Dunkin Donuts within a 20-mile radius of her house. She has managed to control the bulemia but she still goes on massive cycles of carb binges followed by a few days of starvation eating, then more binges. Throughout it all she has remained slender, and all her health markers are perfect (she is the only sister with good thyroid function - other sister and I both have Hashi's) - but she still has wild mood swings with carbs and I used to feel sorry for her kids. When she was in a binging carby state she would go berserk screaming and yelling at her kids over irrational things - even telling them she could not stand them anymore and planned to put them up for adoption. It made me cringe as it made me think so much of the horrors of my own childhood and my own mother - who in retrospect I think was also a huge carb addict, and I often wonder how all our lives might have been different if Mom had tried a WF/SF diet.