Has anyone ever lost someone to clean eating / detox / self-help / alternative therapies?

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I have a friend who got into alternative therapies a few years ago. She is always into something new or starting a new cleanse and is always buying everyone else self help books. We can’t eat at restaurants with her anymore because of her restrictive and changing diet.

I didn’t think much of it but recently I spoke to her mum and she said they were worried about her, she seemed obsessed. When she comes to stay with her mum she brings her own food but it’s always a different food plan.

It got me thinking, does anyone else know people like this? Where it becomes the main thing they talk about and do in their life? (Btw she is not trying to lose weight, she is already slim.)

Yes, luckily they came out the other side but def ended up on the edge, if not actually having orthorexia. It started after she had cancer. In the end she found a balance between healthy life style and obsession but it was worrying for a while

I lost a friend to conspiracy theories/politics/atheism
She became more evangelical than the Christians she claimed to despise
And became utterly tedious and as gullible to believing anything that suited her agenda as believers is a religious faith
She became unpleasantly argumentative and you couldn’t just chat with her
I binned her off gradually and sadly barely see her now

She's maybe off in orthorexia land.

I crossfit, so there was always a bit of clean eating stuff going on in my previous gym. Current one, we sit round and eat cake and coffee. Sorry, I digress, if she is clean eating and being strict, I'd indulge the bringing food but it defo sounds like it's gone too far.

One of our best friends got into Forever Living. Everything was about aloe Vera. She started networking with a much older (and obsessed crowd) and stopped speaking to us all. She had been a totally normal person until that point. We still feel sad to this day that we lost her. Despite numerous attempts to reengage we had to eventually give up.

What is orthorexia? I haven’t heard this before.

You can talk about other things, but you can’t ask questions about the food situation.

It’s a form of eating disorder, when people think of eating disorders they normally think of people trying to lose weight but orthorexia is an eating disorder around clean/healthy living, or rather what the sufferer thinks of as healthy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa

Thanks Daisy that’s interesting.

That’s sad Lady that Forever living really sounds a bit cult-like.