I've had this posted on another message board and have been updating it. It's alot to type and so I didn't forget anything I copied and pasted whats been going on. I think this sums it up! Any suggestions would be appreciated b/c she's got a major problem, even though she thinks she doesn't. Sorry, its long! Please help!

My sis in law is 36, approx 5'7 and a size 6. She is a vegetarian. She figured out that she has candida (since her son was born 6 years ago) and started buying/reading all these books about it. She ended up at a health food store and bought a pH test kit. Her pH is really low and according to her books that means she has/or is going to get cancer, so basically she freaked out and bought absolutely every book she could find and started practicing everything they said.
Since october when she started this she has lost "at least" 25 lbs. She is wearing the same size that I wear now (0,2). She looks extremely unhealthy...her face is long and looks sunken in b/c shes lost so much weight. Her shoulders look gigantic on her and her neck appears twice its length. She is wearing large shirts still that hang off her (maybe trying to hide the loss?) As far as her eating...she eats veggies only (all organic) snacks on special chips. She can have no sugars, starches, dairy, meats, etc...Shes in horrible moods b/c shes starving all the time. Her marriage is suffering b/c of her moods and all she talks about is her "condition". Yet she won't go to the doctor (she has been told and she refuses to go). She says shes just trying to get her pH back up and when you ask her how much longer this is going to go on for she just says I don't know, maybe forever. She can't keep going like this forever, she's wasting away to nothing. She's drinking special $40 a case water only. Her eating habits are very expensive for what little she eats. Her entire family has talked to her and when you ask her husband about talking to her he just says she thinks she has cancer. She says she's not trying to lose weight but half of her books are diet books, so maybe that was part of her goal...only she didn't need to lose anything to begin with.
Trying to think if I forgot anything important.
Any suggestions or related material would be very helpful so I can pass it on. She doesn't know I'm checking into this but somebody as to before she gets worse. Please help!

She hasn't been to a doctor in 6 years (I don't think she even went back for her checkup after her son was born). She had a c section for her first child and a vaginal for her second (which I thought wasn't supposed to be done) and from her c section she has had a bit of a belly since the muscles don't do their thing anymore. Well, that belly is completely flat. She has no butt, her hands look like skeletons and her face looks tiny within her hair and compared to her shoulders. I saw her tonight and she had fairly form fitting clothing on, which she hasn't in a while. I'm under the impression she thinks she looks good since shes soooo tiny. Her mom told her to at least go see a nutrionist but she refueses that too. Maybe part of why she won't go is because she has no health insurance. I and the rest of her family think she's taken this way too far and theres no end in sight. She has 2 young kids to care for...if she keeps up like she is, what good is she going to be?


Update! I talked to her, not so nicely, on saturday and grilled her about what shes trying to accomplish being that I saw she just purchased some jeans from ebay in my size. I'm 24, 5'2 and 112 lbs and shes 5'7, 36 years old and losing weight quickly! It's not natural. Anyway, she thinks everyone thinks she looks bad only b/c she hasn't been in the sun and shes so pale. I gave her a pamphlet on a naturopathy doctor in the area which I got via her health food store. She said no doctors once again...I informed her all she will do is prick her finger and examine her blood theres no veins involved.
She still thinks shes healthy. She said that going off everything shes read she should feel awful but she doesn't, she said she feels great except in the morning cause she's so hungry. She said shes going to do her little pH test again to see where she's at. She said shes not doing it to lose weight and she said no...but she did say that when she got pregnant with her first child she weighed 105 which she went back down to after the pregnancy. Then with her 2nd child she couldn't lose the weight so she thinks essentially she's back at the weight she should be at. Only apparently she doesn't realize she's older now and it looks awful on her. Somehow I don't think her family realizes the full extent of the situation and how far shes taken it. I'm hoping maybe it will put it a little more into perspective when they figure out shes wearing my size clothing.