She lacks energy because of her poor diet.
Exactly. Her diet is so nutrient deficient she’s probably malnourished (that doesn’t mean thin).
I used to have a friend who’s under 4 daughter wouldn’t eat anything but sweets and cake and biscuits. She would scream and throw her plate on the floor when a normal meal was put in front of her. Her mum withheld sugary foods for 3 days and the petulant child ate nothing, refusing all real food. On day 4, her mum went back to giving her the biscuits she screamed for because “she has to eat something”.
Now, don’t get me wrong, there’s all kinds of issues with this story including how did the kid get addicted to sugary food that young? Someone must have been giving it to them i.e. the parents. However, I was reminded of this story this morning when watching Carla’s Calorie Crush where she says she was happy with her old diet and “still misses it”. In her own words;
“I was quite happy eating a packet of biscuits for breakfast, couple of packets of crisps mid-morning, not bothering with lunch, having some cake in the middle of the afternoon, having a takeaway or going out for dinner, eating a bit more cake before bed, I was absolutely perfectly happy with that”
As a sentient being with a logical and functioning brain, can she not see what’s wrong with the diet that made her “absolutely, perfectly happy”?
She is both the adult and child in this scenario. So, Carla, would you feed a child, say the girl above, a packet of biscuits for breakfast and crisps for lunch so that she refuses all other food and becomes so nutrient deficiency she is clinically malnourished? No? Then why do it to yourself?
It seems to me that Carla has been depressed for a long time, using the sugar rush like a gambler using a fruit machine to get a little hit.
Carla, if at 50 you still can’t control your petulant inner child, perhaps consider some kind of therapy.
In my opinion, I believe Carla is very much on the spectrum and would benefit from some mental help.
Oh... one more comment, she says she has a sweet tooth. Which one of your remaining three rotten teeth is that then Carla?