Your friend might not be healthier/happier, she doesn't sound healthier. But we're all individuals and sounds like you suffer from low blood sugar if you don't eat regularly. I need a thyroid pill because my body doesn't make enough anymore and I have to take lactaid or do without too much dairy because I don't make enough lactose and will get cramps and worse if I eat too much dairy without it.

It's "crazy" not to give one's body what it says it needs (your friend not eating just because she's too lazy to fix something), it's like deciding the cost of gas is too high so you just won't use it anymore, you'll use something cheaper (cheaper gas can make one's engine "knock"). Why fight it? There's lots of other, more interesting things to think about and do?

When I was a teen, I had a huge thing going with my stepmother about bathing and/or washing my hair. I'd do elaborate, time extensive "tricks" to make it look like I'd taken a bath while my parents were out, instead of just taking a bath! I got so hung up with my stepmother's and my relationship that I based my behavior on that instead of on myself and what I really wanted/needed. It's not either/or!

If I had taken a bath, because I wanted/needed a bath, thought taking a bath was a good idea, that would not have meant that I was doing it because it was what my mother wanted. What you do is literally what You do, the other people aren't really part of it, don't really matter; I didn't learn that until I was 41 and had a zillion stupid habits/ways of thinking I'm still trying to reverse.