Frustrating

pinkgurl456
pinkgurl456 Posts: 64 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Does anyone get frustrated with some family members who literally don’t give a hoot about their health eating wise ? I know it’s none of my buisness but my cousin literally eats terrible high calorie heart attack eating meals and the rest of the family laughs and thinks it’s like a quirk or something . It wouldn’t be so annoying if my family didn’t compare our eating styles with comments such as why don’t you eat normal like your cousin when we eat out and I try so hard to order the healthy option.

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  • deannalfisher
    deannalfisher Posts: 5,600 Member
    you go your thing and let them do theirs - you can't force someone to care about their health and food choices unfortunately - you can continue to demonstrate good habits and maybe they'll see you and make some changes
  • tcunbeliever
    tcunbeliever Posts: 8,219 Member
    It's very frustrating to watch people I care about digging their grave with their fork. You can only control what you can control, and that is you and your eating habits.

    As for the comparison, they aren't going to listen if you get defensive, but if you stay calm and just state the facts, they might eventually get the picture. Why don't you eat "normal"? Because you want to have a long life. Because you want to have a healthy life. Because you care about yourself and part of self care is getting good nutrition deliberately. Because there's nothing normal about eating foods that destroy your body. Whatever fits.

    To a certain extent family is just family. There's no guarantee that anything you say will ever change their behavior or their words. What you can try to change is how you react to it and how you communicate your opposition to their idea of "normal".

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