8year old food question

[1teachermom]

My eight year old was an incredibly healthy eater, ate a huge variety of foods and always enjoyed eating.  One night she over ate and threw up because of it.  Ever since then she will not eat.  She tells me that her tastes have changed.  She will not longer drink milk and gets barely any protein at all now.  Her meals are ridiculously small and t is a battle to get her to eat what she does.  Piece of turkey bacon and a pretzel for breakfast.  2 crackers one eency piece of cheese and one eency piece of turkey for lunch.  Dinner is usually a little healthy pasta.  But that is it for a day, that is the wining menu to get her to eat at all.  I am worried that she is developing an eating disorder.  I am always on a diet so I think that has messed her up.  she knows the nutritional importance of protein and calcium but still stubbornly refuses to eat.  The incident was months and months ago, she lost seven pounds after that and I have managed to help her get five of those pounds back on but it is an emotional battle each day.  I feel like I've tried everything, including a desperate attempt at bribery, but nothing's worked.  How can I assure that she is not working her way into a full blown eating disorder?.

[margypops]

It is possible that out of your concern you are making the Issue worse, it sounds like a lot of reaction from you, I think if you let her eat and be in control of her self it may work better , put the foods out dont talk about your concern about how much she eats , leave her to get on with it, you may find she will eat more, you may unwittingly be creating a problem ,all the talk about how big the portions are , its too much..Back off a bit ,it may work ...