Does this sound like an eating disorder to you?

[DrNortherner]

Young girl in early twenties
Very slim, probably a size 6
Pale, sometimes yellowish tinge to complexion

Sit opposite her 6 hours a day each day and she barely eats. Yesterday she ate nothing, today she ate 3 strips of roast chicken. i know this as I saw her take her lunch out of the fridge. She never eats in the canteen, or at her desk, she chooses to sit on an empty cluster of desks to eat.

We eat biscuits/cakes/sweets in the office she never has any.

She says she has an allergy to lots of different food types and it makes her ill and there are only certain foods she can eat. She reckons she eats a big dinner when she gets home. She alos barely drinks. 2 herbal teas a day.

At first I bought her allergy story but now am a bit worried.

What are your thoughts?

atkins? hence the chicken.

sorry but 'i eat a big dinner when i get home' is an old one for fooling people when you have an eating disorder.

she may well have but ime there is not much you can do even if she has.

I used to flat share with someone who had anorexia - what happened when we tried to talk to her about it was she stayed out of the house from 8.30am - 10.00pm and come home and say she had stuffed herself all day

Could well be

but when I was early twenties I worked in an office and only drank water and never ate bucuits/cakes . I was size ten , no issues
the women I worked with thought I was very odd to only drink water and not eat biscuits etc. It got very boring very quickly

now though I drink too much coffee snack too much and am a 16 wish I was still disclipined tbh

Why not just ask her, gently but directly? Tell her that you know it's none of your business but that you really do care, and would like to know if there's anything you could do to help...