Well, there was a period of time that we put velcro strips layered on the fridge handles. difficult child would go through the kitchen at night. The very first time, she was around 4.......you wouldn't believe what I found when I heard a noise in the middle of the night. Then, we would find food under her bed.....bagels, cream cheese, apples & even tubs of butter (yuck). Hmmm....the dogs started catching on & "tattling" on her. One of my poor poochies got stuck under a bed trying to get to the bottom of the peanut butter jar! Anyway, she was gaining weight at that time. We went into major lock down. Her medications have changed since then also. She still still gets up every night to come to our bedroom floor & I KNOW she checks out the peanut butter cabinet while she's getting a sip of water.....she leaves the spoon in the sink & smells of pb when she plops on the floor of my room if I haven't hopped up out of bed to catch her first. That is when "someone" forgets to lock the cabinet. Things are still pretty bad when it comes to food for her....if people around her are not on the same schedule, she will try her best to eat along with them & I know she can't be hungry.
I will say though....for the comments coming about teenage boys....my easy child can eat like he has some bottomless pit!!!!! He's athletic & skinny as a rail....but, the boy has no problem eating a few peices of bread before he eats 2 sandwiches or scarfing down a whole tube of cin rolls. He can eat 2 dinners in one night. He's a carb, junk food, unhealthy junkie. Guess what? I try not to get too bent over it because it's all my fault for starting him out with food the way I did & not enforcing it now....I was strict in a healthy way for him & did not let him have "junk". I caved since difficult child. I let him have some pleasures he enjoys, food being important to him & soothes him. I let him have a Mountain Dew or Coke if we are eating out & he is so excited to this day (so, at least I kept up one thing...no pop)! I blame myself for that & will more than likely regret it.....being full aware of my own eating disorder. Sorry I rambled so much on your post!!!