I think my 17year old has the start of an eating problem

[Damsonsky]

I'm not sure where to post this or what to do about it.

She is 17 and at 6th form. She's 5 feet 6 and weighs 8 stone 2lbs.
In July she was 8 stone 12. She's not sporty or especially active.
I've noticed she's trying to skip meals. She's always been a bit of a fussy eater.,
She now refuses all desserts.
Some treats she was given for her birthday are unopened after 2 months.
I have no idea what she eats at school. She takes a packed lunch so it could get thrown away for all I know.
She will eat dinner in the evening but for example if it's pasta she won't eat garlic bread.
The only way I know what she weighs is that the bathroom scales is registered to an App I have .

I should probably state that she has only ever known me as fat and I'm trying to lose weight. She knows I go to Slimming World but I try to keep it low key and I'm more calorie controlled than following their plan. Her father and siblings are thin. Whole family vegetarian and reasonably healthy. A takeaway is a rare treat as is eating out.

Op have you spoken to BEAT yet

i really can’t stress enough the need to respond to this asap.

I would be booking a Gp app tomorrow

I couldn't get hold of the BEAT helpline today.
I will try tomorrow.
Thankfully she is only weighing ( that registered, there may be other occasions that haven't been logged ) every few weeks.
The scales have gone. If she asks for them I can make an excuse that I weigh at Slimming World.

I have no other worries about her in particular. She doesn't particularly confide in me but she seems happy at school and with friends, she has a Saturday job. Where she takes another packed lunch and another occasion when I can't see what she eats.
She's thinking of University so I need to get to grips with things now.
She has a daily multivitamin and an extra iron tablet but she's had those for years.

Going against the grain here but I don't think it's too much of an urgent issue. I'm about her height and at that age the same weight which fluctuated that amount, looking back it was from stress of relationships, work, studying etc, changes in general.

As long as your talk to her and she's supported by you, I don't think your weight is particularly relevant, all girls are aware of these things but not all have serious issues.