Wife admitted she has BED. Its pretty bad. She says about 5000-7000 cals most days. What is this? What health problems did it cause? How can i help her stop? Has anyone recovered? If anyone is comfortable talking about it, what are some things your loved ones did for you that made you feel better? I wanna be supportive. I need to help her. I am extremely worried about this. I need to know as much info as possible. I cannot lose her.
Warning: mentions of anorexia, binge eating disorder, etc
My lovely wife has struggled eating disorders for a long time. She has never been fat, she is not fat now. She is a beautiful woman. When she was 14, she what was basically (at least i think, I'm not sure tbh, I've never had an ED) anxorexia. Then she got BED. This stopped when she was 15-ish, sometime early in our relationship. We got married young and we went through a lot of very bad things but her eating habits were pretty healthy. Almost a year ago we went through something that absolutely broke her and she basically stopped eating hardly at all, barely enough to survive. I don't think it was an ED thing, i think it was just depression. She lost a ton of weight (she was thin, in December she maybe weighed 100 ibs tops and she's average height) and honestly i admit i was not the partner she needed and i could've been better but i didn't know how to deal with it either. Things have gotten better and in February she started to eat meals again. I was happy she was getting healthy. Over the last few months she has put on a lot of weight. Like a noticeable amount. She probably weighs more now than she ever did pregnant. For obvious reasons, i didn't point this out but honestly i think she looks good. She's naturally curvy. She's gorgeous. I'm happy she is happy and eating. She deserves that. However, i was a bit concerned because the weight gain was so rapid, but i didn't think much of it. I thought she was just eating normal meals. Now the other day, we went out & i was getting really hungry so i asked her if she wanted to stop by the Taco Bell. She started crying. I was confused and i asked why and she admitted that in the last few months she has fallen back into binge eating and apparently has been consuming 4000-7000 calories at least 4 times every week since valentine's day while I'm at work. I am still shocked but it makes sense. How else could she gained this weight? Food goes missing too. I just never thought of this. I have no idea what to do or how to support her. How can I actually be helpful and not useless? Also can this have long term health issues?