11 year old binge eating sweets and crisps

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Help please. My daughter is now 11 and creeps into the kitchen to take sweets and chocolates etc. She sneaks them into her room and eats them. I find the wrappers etc in her bin or hidden in drawers etc.

I have told her not to do this as I have an issue because she doesn't seem to know when to stop so she'll eat sweets until she's that full and she'll leave her tea.

I've also explained about eating healthy and her teeth not being able to take too many sugary sweets.

She is only slim so no issues with weight.

Ive asked her to eat in moderation and I've tried to be relaxed about her eating sweets etc but she just goes over the top.

Her uncle gave her £10 the other day and I've just found out that she's spent it all the same day on sweets which I am angry absolutely it to be honest.

It's been going on since she was about 8 and so I stopped buying sweet things but then is that fair on the rest of the family because we can't trust her.

Lately I spoke to her and said I was going to start getting sweets cakes crisps etc again and I didn't have an issue as long as she didn't eat too much or too close to mealtime And ruin her meals.

I've now noticed a big pack of biscuits gone. Some cooking chocolate I purchased to make crispy cakes (a big bar) I am furious but please help me and give me any ideas of how to deal with it!

I don't know how to sort it for the best. Many thanks

Stop buying them. Buy healthier options.

Stop buying them and feed her more healthy foods to fill her up. Does she need to snack between meals? e.g. on fruit, carrot sticks, a piece of cheese, piece of toast, a handful of unsalted nuts, etc. ?

I would stop buying them for now

I would also stop pocket money

And make more filling meals

Also sorry to ask, does she spend alot of time on you tube? I'd be worried about an eating disorder

Looks like it's become a forbidden fruit, a treat, which is not good. Somewhere along the line these have become so restricted to her she has started bingeing when she can get her hands on them.

I think uou need to ride it out. Buy in moderation, make it seem like it's not something forbidden and not a treat, lead by example and share healthy snacks with her.

When it stops seemingly like a forbidden treat she will lose interest.

In sounds like she has an eating disorder. I would take her to the GP and get some professional help.

In the meantime, stop buying the things she is bingeing on.

Don't have them in the house and if you do, don't have them accessible. I have a friend who has a lock on their sweetie cupboard. And take control of your daughter's money. Mine is 11 and has to clear it with me when she wants to spend her birthday money etc.

A locked cupboard for the sweet things?

Don't buy sweets/chocolate/crisps.
Hide the baking chocolate- freezer, or in a tin with the cookie cutters, behind rarely used serving dishes, cleaning products- in short somewhere she's unlikely to look