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Originally Posted by MuscleMom23
OMG you are talking about my family. Out one side of the mouth they say your'e fat lose weight, your'e getting big! On the other, let's go to so and so place to eat all fried food, or why aren't you eating this or that. AAARRRGGGGHHHHHHH. Are they happy that I am fat now? NOOOO
Sorry for hijacking your log to rant  |
Don't be sorry! I think everyone knows someone like this. I'm more blown away that my current boyfriend is really supportive than I was that my last boyfriend wasn't. He's the kind of guy I can say to, "Let's go out for dinner," without him being like, "Aren't you on a DIET?" and yet, he's still supportive of my healthy eating. It's brilliant, I don't know how he does it!
The best I can think of is that people just don't like change.
I was reading
Life of Pi a while ago and there's this big long passage about how animals behave in zoos. People assume animals in zoos are miserable because they don't have their freedom. But really, they're being fed regularly, they get to live without fear, they don't have to defend their territory, and so on. And the part that stuck with me was this - why would an animal leave the safety of an enclosure for the possible danger of the outside? They don't know what lies outside the zoo walls.
Put another way, it's this: "A known bad is better than an unknown worse." Tongue in cheek, of course, because often times the "unknown" is better than the known. But that's how a lot of people think.
Better to have fat mommy, because we know how she acts (or fat girlfriend, because I know she loves me), than to have a thin and fulfilled mommy, because we don't know how she'll act. (Will we never eat Chinese food again??)
Be firm in your choices and they'll see that nothing really changes for them...hopefully. Or you could try talking to them about it.