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From Gail, child's age 4

My daughter is 23 years old and she is a compulsive overeater. She is a single mother of a little girl who will turn five in May. The father of the girl has left my daughter when the child was 17 month old and she never heard of him again. My daughter than began to overeat and drink to much. She quit the drinking over a year ago but continued to overeat. The little girl has always been a little chubby but in the last six month her weight has really increased. She gained at least 10 pounds. She already carries quite a belly. She weights a little over 50 pounds my daughter told me. I'm not sure how much a child of that age should weight. My daughter also told me that she allows the little girl to eat candy quite often, because she doesn't know how to explain her, why mommy is eating so much candy but why the child can't have it. The little girl spend the last weekend at our house and my husband and me were surprised how much the girl ate. She ate very rapidly and an amount of food, that I think is large for a four year old. She really stuffes herself at meals and always asked for second helpings. I'm really concerned about my granddaughter and want to help her. I know that I can't help my daughter as long as she doesn't want help with her eating disorder, but I want to help my granddaughter, I just don't know how. Can a child at that age already have an eating disorder or I'm just panicking because of my daughter?