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Is referring to GP 'safe foods' a thing people with real gastroparesis do? That screams ED to me, especially when the safe food seems to vary depending on the weather. Plus most of the pictures of her 'bloating' are really not that bad from what I can tell. (Exception for the most recent hospital admission - that looked painful).
Edit: I'm not saying she was deliberately purging to the extent of sticking her fingers down her throat, but I there's absolutely something mental going on, even if it's just her convincing herself that X makes her sick.
I don't know anyone with legitimate gastroparesis due to influx of munchies claiming it and my inability to trust anyone who says they have it anymore, but there is a general trend of people with genuine digestive disorders calling certain things "safe foods" because they know they aren't going to react. Like someone with celiac knowing he can eat a banana from any cafe, convenience store, or truck stop anywhere in the country because no matter how shady the place is, as long as the peel is intact there's no way the inner banana was contaminated.
That said, a lot of people with digestive disorders also have eating disorders, either because they're subjecting their GI to things it should not be subjected to (laxative abuse, repetitive forceful vomiting, prolonged starvation) that fucks them up, or because they have some GI problem that has made them afraid to eat/eat a very restrictive diet trying to get relief (The volgger SuperSkip64 who has crohns was down to like 50 lbs a year ago, much of it because he was afraid to eat).
It is entirely possible Jaq was making herself so anxious about eating that she vomited. It's also possible she had no control over it, that it was a somatic disorder that she thought was absolutely real. And it's also possible she was abusing something to make her throw up somewhat on demand – it's really not that hard. Wash down a few Dulcolax tablets with a glass of m.ilk and you'll be hunched over the toilet praying for the sweet kiss of death within an hour.
The bloating and distention was from abusing opiates and anticholinergics until she wasn't able to poop for weeks.