My parents are obsessed with trying to stop my weight loss

leanjogreen18

cmtigger wrote: »

leanjogreen18 wrote: »

In my experience OP parents don't become "obsessed" unless there is a concern.

Is your diary open? Perhaps they are concerned about how much or what you're eating?

I don't know if there is a concern or not, but I know my dad got obsessed with making me get up and walk around after major surgery where the doctor had told me no weight bearing for 5 weeks.

No walking or standing up for 5 weeks? Yikes!!!

heiliskrimsli

Blitzia wrote: »

heiliskrimsli wrote: »

And who made you the eating disorder police? Are you employed by Under Armour for that purpose, or is this just some self-important holier-than-thou personal mission of yours?

Because it looks a lot like the person with the problem is the one who decided to make herself the watcher of everyone else's weight loss.

OP has asked you to back off. Be respectful and do so.

Since this thread has derailed into pointing fingers at who has "the problem," let me point out that you seem to have quite the chip on your shoulder about whether or not the mythical 18-22 BMI is healthy, and you seem to be taking others' polite concern for OP's eating attitude personally. It's a public forum where people come to ask advice. Most people in this thread have offered their advice politely and constructively. You seem hostile and personally offended by what you deem as the "tremendous amounts of fatlogic" by everyone else on this thread. I don't understand why you seem to have become personally and deeply offended that people are offering their opinions on someone else's weight loss on a forum where people come to ask and offer advice on weight loss.

Well for one referring to a BMI between 18.5 and 22 as "mythical" is pretty fatlogic, considering that is within the healthy, normal range.

For another, OP asked for advice about dealing with intrusiveness from her parents, not for advice about how to stop losing weight, and quite a few people in here have tried to harass her about whether she's got an eating disorder. Even if she did, which I don't think there's any evidence to indicate, badgering her about it is hardly going to get you any kind of positive result. They're not being polite, not after being asked several times by OP to back off.

As for what I am and am not "personally offended by", not much actually offends me. I do find it really ironic that there are so many people so invested in the concept that the One Right Way is to eat as much as possible (and to exercise primarily because you can eat more) on a site called MyFITnessPal.

With what I've seen here, someone should change the domain name to MyFATnessPal.

cmtigger

leanjogreen18 wrote: »

cmtigger wrote: »

leanjogreen18 wrote: »

In my experience OP parents don't become "obsessed" unless there is a concern.

Is your diary open? Perhaps they are concerned about how much or what you're eating?

I don't know if there is a concern or not, but I know my dad got obsessed with making me get up and walk around after major surgery where the doctor had told me no weight bearing for 5 weeks.

No walking or standing up for 5 weeks? Yikes!!!

No weight bearing, just minimum movements on crutches until the joint was solid in its socket.

But the thing was that my dad wanted me up and about. And would not listen when I repeated my doctor's orders.

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