My roommate needs help!

So I need help dealing with my roommate. I wouldnt exactly call us good friends, i met her in may and we arent that close, we dont really get into deep meaningful conversations.

but I have noticed she talks about food a lot and how fat she is.  The food she keeps in the fridge is nothing worthy of a meal. She comments on what she eats constantly, and most nights I don't even see her eat dinner.  She'll make comments like "All I have had today was a diet coke!" and it'll be almost 7pm!

The final breaking point was when I came home and she had written really big on the fridge "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels!".  SO much of this, if not all, is extremly triggering to me, because I can finally say I feel healthy and actually am over coming my fear of food.

Living with her isnt helping, and I try my best to ignore it most days. Other days I just cant help it.

What should I do...and how should I let this not affect me anymore!

Can you move out?

Do you feel at least close enough to her to confide in her and tell her about your history with food and how some things can be triggering for you?

If she responds well, maybe you can give her a little bit of advice on the proper way to lose weight.  You might be able to point her to CC and let her know that it has helped you to learn to count calories without starving yourself.

Nope Im already signed into a lease until next august...if I moved out I would be paying rent at 2 places, which I cant afford.

I've tried to tell her that if she doesnt eat...and then decides to go out to the bar and load up on a lot of empty calories, or to eat a more substantial meal that its all going to just store in her body because her mind thinks it's starving (which it is) and will USE all of it, instead of burning it.  I think that got thru to her a little bit.

Also she was saying how she was hungry once and then said right after it, holy crap its cold in here (it really wasnt that cold) so I snapped and said "well if you ate something then maybe you wouldnt be so cold all the time!"...I think this offended her...but I just couldnt hold it in anymore!

Omg.

I'm in a situation similar to yours, except it's not about living with someone who doesn't know about nutrition. It's going to with and being best friends with someone who doesn't know about proper nutrition.

My best friend since grade 8, has just started not eating breakfast and lunch. She claims it helped her lose 5 pounds a day. Which is absolutely impossible. She's tall but big boned, so she thinks it's all fat.

So in classes and lunch, every other second she's always mentioning that she's cold and her fingers and numb and blablabla. So I'm like "Oh my god, just eat!" And she's like "Oh I can't, I'm still on the diet." It's so irritating because I'll be eating my lunch and onto my snack and then possbily a candy bar, and she would just sit there and watch.

So I've practically given up. Needless to say, we're not even friends anymore because I stopped hanging out with her.

I hope you don't give up and try to help your roommate.

If it were me, I'd post a sign under it that says: "Nothing is worth feeling miserable." Or something to that affect.

Could you leave some actual information laying around that might help her? I'm actually no good in these situations, but you at least have the right to ask her to remove signs like that which could be triggering for you.

Sorry this happened to you. =/ *hugs*

You can find someone to sublease for you... Its not hard. That way youre not going to be in that situation at all.

Unfortunately I think all you can do is express your concern, but you can't make anyone eat if they don't want to help themselves.

k thank guys! I removed the sign as soon as I saw it...and for now Im just going to try to make really awesome meals that smell so good she cant pass them up! If not, subleasing it is!

Thanks again!