A two part question; so one of my friends is going through a rough patch that has resulted in her eating her way up to 142 lbs, at 5 feet tall. She is now intending to starve herself till she’s at an appropriate weight (she’s aiming for 118 lbs). When I told her that starving herself is not a good way to lose weight and that it would result in her body actually retaining anything she ate as an emergency measure, she first countered me saying what if her body only had an apple a day to work with (which is what she’s eaten the past 2 weeks she chose to hide this) and that what I was saying was silly since her waist size has reduced in just these two weeks.
How is this working? I’m assuming there’s either no weight loss and her stomach is simply shrinking because it’s literally got nothing inside it, or she’s lying.
Either way she insists that saying that she wants to weigh a 118 lbs is merely a way to put her goal into words; she just wants her stomach and thighs to shrink even if there’s no significant weight loss.
Should I alert someone to this, or should I talk to her first and see is she’s really telling the truth about only eating a single apple a day? I don’t want her to get into unnecessary trouble.

Topics: food, weight, anorexia, mental health, body image