Let alone her personality, she would probably fetishize the situation. Going on about how lucky they are to be skinny and how she would be too if she was like them. Or harass them on how to lose weight while picking them apart. She wouldn’t be able to regulate her emotions either, plus as I said a few pages back she’s the definition of reverse thinspo, her eating disgusts regular people. Could you imagine struggling to eat at all and having her smacking and licking her fingers?
Alright everybody, gather round. Blotto is gonna ramble. To answer your question absolutely not, a lot of disordered eaters use veganism as a way to avoid fast food and things other people offer to not eat. Like
@Fat Pikachu said, othro is an issue too. In fact because of the refeeding process foods tend to be nutrient and can be caloric dense, some places use things like ensure if a patient won’t eat/throws up.
Treatment usually involves trigger foods. Some clinics will even call in fast food weekly or if it’s a residential facility take you out once a week and have take out on another day. Facilities also may have “challenge foods” like deserts for exposure therapy. Talking about food almost never happens, and depending on the structure patients may be monitored and have to make their own foods- this is more common at higher levels like residential, outpatient, etc. They can get marks against them if patients are caught discussing food, disorder patterns and get their asses kicked out. Oh, and hygiene that’s a huge one, people can struggle to bathe if they face severe BDD and hate touching their own bodies, but it’s noted when they aren’t showering or bathing regularly and any time she’s in the bathroom there would be a staff member outside monitoring her as well. Noncompliance with meds would also be an issue.
Typically there’s daily exercise in some form, walking or something slow paced. Places can have yogis come in and give the patients therapeutic yoga sessions but those are only 2-3 times a week. She would be expected to wake around 7, be ready by 8 and go to bed at 10. Sleeping in and missing therapies might be tolerable for the first few days while adjusting but it can get patients in trouble. The first group may involve stretching and checking in with their feelings and how they sit in their bodies. Then there would be a handful of various groups and therapies with small breaks in between. These last 45 minutes to an hour and a half. There can be a snack involved (monitored, everyone has to sit at the table for all meals too, keep their hands on the table, be limited to one napkin and have to use clear glasses to drink from. ) or it’ll go till lunch. The groups start up right after and may end anywhere from 5-8 pm depending on the day and the schedule. There’s also one on one therapy, visits with a psychiatrist, regular weigh ins (they won’t tell you your weight just because you’re fat Chantal), and most importantly family therapy.
It depends on the clinics for specifics, but the family therapy is almost universal. The dynamics of enablers and aggressors has to be addressed. I don’t see bibi going through the pain of checking in, keeping all his shit in the car, and having a therapy session with Chantal. They’d probably want him since he lives with her, but even her actual family would need to be wrangled in, particularly grandma, I feel for her being used but she’s helping Chantal kill herself.
TLDR- No, they wouldn’t let her be vegan, she would be responsible for a lot of her own shit. There would be fatty foods/ fast food around her because after stabilizing the patient that’s the point of confronting these things. She would be expected to exercise, keep a normal sleep schedule, keep her hygiene up, take meds and sit in groups while not discussing food. Family therapy is a huge part of the process, Bibi and the grandma in particular.
E- spelling and added a few details
) was going around, I wanted to cross post a few things from the Chantal thread, since quite a bit applies to amber well.
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