Sorry for my English I'm not native in English.
First of all I (24M) am in an amazing relationship with my girlfriend (21F). Unfortunately we are in a long distance relationship but we've got such an amazing relationship dispite the distance between us. She's honestly the dream woman, looks amazing, has an amazing personality and loves me better than anyone did before :)
Unfortunately my girlfriend has an eating disorder. What exactly I don't know since she's never got an actual diagnosis. She luckily trusts me as one of three people who know she's struggles with food what I'm very grateful for since I know how difficult it can be to share something related to mental health (I've had mental health issues in the past as well).
For her disorder she is constantly tracking her calorie intake in her head, knows everything about calories, fat, carbs, protein and so on. Also she has a really bad body imagine of herself since she keeps seeing herself as her 14 - 16 year old body and wants that back. She says she's feels fat, bloated, puffy and so on once she has a bad period. Yes luckily this is not constantly (the calorie tracking is). I noticed through the last year that she struggles more once she experiences bad stress (wich is quite often) or when I've been at her place unfortunately. This last one is because I've got an athletic build and am quite muscular so she reflects herself onto me and doesn't see why I'm with her if she feels this way :(
Good to also mention she is vegetarian eats super healthy and moves quite a lot dispite her office job. She eats really healthy because she got a binge eating attack on chocolate (her favorite taste) once the was 14 years old and ever since then she's had problems with binge eating, restricting herself from eating or controlling her cravings.
I'm her for her whenever she wants to talk about it and she does once she want to, I never push her to it, ask about it, make comments on her body, make comments about what or how much she's eating. What can I do more to help her? She wants to get help, get over this and everything but she doesn't want to get professional help since she thinks she can fix it because she started it and professional help wouldn't help her. Is there anything more that I can do other than what I'm already doing? By the way I know forcing her to get professional help doesnt work since I've experienced that myself ofcourse.
Thank you all for reading, advicing and thinking with me. I love her to death so I wish I could take it away for her or anyone else that struggles with it....