Re: Help! Advice Needed! I think my sis in law has taken the cleanse too far!

Your post is a little confusing since no where in it do I see that this person is doing the Master Cleanse. If she were thinking of doing The Master Cleanse while dealing with candida, I would recommend you suggesting doing a candida protocol instead since with The Master Cleanse the maple syrup is contraindicated for those dealing with a candida overgrowth.

What it seems like to me, is that your relative is an anorexic. I speak from experience since my own daughter, dealing with a trauma, was 5'10 and a size 0 and looked like you described your sister-in-law. The Curezone does have an anorexia forum and could perhaps provide you more information and advice. Unfortunately, I cannot say these situations are easy since I was informed since my daughter was no longer a minor, if she wanted to waste herself away, I had no legal recourse. I could not even force her into counseling, although I went and it did make a difference for my own comfort/discomfort level. My daughter just could not see her body wasting away although her friends and all the family could and we all were desparate to help make a difference. I had to surrender the control and it was someone else close to her but not family who was able to make sense to her without the *charge* that came from her imagining that family was trying to *control* her life.

It sounds like good advice if a nutritionist could be pulled in, but ideally, it may take counseling or therapy since the reality is that her behaviors concerning food are masking her attempts to control other situations in her life which you may or may not know about. Denial can be so strong too that they cannot see the problem like you do. At size 0 and looking like a skeleton, my daughter would stand in front of a mirror and lament that she looked fat. We never pressured her ever about food and she had never in her life been fat, so we were at a loss to explain the shift in behavior too.

I will admit to sending books and magazines subscriptions which emphasized healthy eating and would like to think they helped. By the grace my daughter is now at a much more normal size and can actually look back and admit perhaps she had gone too far in her effort to exert *control* in her life. I just know, berating and shaming or criticizing is not appropriate but education and providing other coping skills help much more.

//www.curezone.org/forums/f.asp?f=381 Anorexia Forum at Curezone....also look online for other info and options/advice.

Blessings,
Zoe

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