I have a 10 year old DD who is overweight although (confirmed by doc) she’s not overeating for the amount of exercise she does but also doesn’t seem to have a metabolic disorder.
I know people will come on and say it must be about food intake and I’m deluding myself and must be overfeeeding her, but we’ve spent a lot of time with the doc going through everything and they’ve confirmed the above.
However, she is beginning to develop a negative mindset about her own body image and recently said at school that she had thought, very briefly and dismissed almost instantly, about committing suicide over Christmas.
When questioned further it became clear that these negative thoughts were caused by the way she views herself and school, and I, are concerned that this might develop into an eating disorder.
They recommended counselling but we can’t find a local counsellor with a spot and DD is mortified about the thought of going to a counsellor as in her head she was never going to do anything and doesn’t want people to keep insisting there’s an issue.
Does anyone have any suggestions or advice about organisations that I could approach or other things that might help, or any other advice!?