"Forcing" food on you...

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  • cramernh
    cramernh Posts: 3,335 Member
    It is very demanding at all of my family's houses... Mom is the number one offender... I actually had to stop going over for dinner because she takes it to such a personal level of attack its rediculous.

    Asking every five minutes the same question and for some reason, the 'no thank you' doesnt sink in everytime. And when she gets nasty and starts telling me what a fool I am for listening to my doctors who obviously want to make my life miserable and me being stupid enough to believe them, ARGHHHH Got so fed up with it that both my husband decided that having dinner there will no longer happen again. We had to do the same thing with my MIL!!!!

    Im not making anyone happy except myself... if they cant understand, then they are not in the picture when it comes to meals together.... plain and simple.
  • SweetxCatastrophe
    SweetxCatastrophe Posts: 593 Member
    Instead of just saying no, I would have clearly said WHY I was saying no. Like instead of just "no thanks," it would have been "no thanks, I'm trying to eat healthier and cookies are not part of my plan" OR "no thank you, I'm eating healthier so the cookies would go to waste at my house." That way you give them a reason you're turning them down (and they should understand if they've been eating better too).

    If they still insisted, I'd bring them to work and leave them out for my co-workers who LOVE their junk food :)
  • PoleBoy
    PoleBoy Posts: 255 Member

    Personally, I often take "unhealthy" foods to meetings etc. because it's my chance to just have one.

    if by "unhealthy" you mean "those foods it's only appropriate to eat in small quantities" then I'm right with you....
  • Tropical_Turtle
    Tropical_Turtle Posts: 2,236 Member
    I would have taken them and given them to a homeless person on a corner. It may not be the healthiest thing but it may be the only thing they got that night.
  • amanda3588
    amanda3588 Posts: 422 Member
    Politely take it if they insist. Throw it away when you get home. Problem solved.
  • hedgiie
    hedgiie Posts: 1,226 Member
    change can be a challenge, there are times when me and my wife would argue since i eat selectively. but now she won't bother me anymore and supports me. you just have to deal with any problems that comes along. people always makes their own expectations and assumptions
  • KarenJean91
    KarenJean91 Posts: 283 Member
    Ugh this reminds me of my friend's family, they are Italian and always forcing me to eat this and that.
  • crystal82dawn
    crystal82dawn Posts: 9 Member
    Yeah but if I took it home I would say o well maybe I could have one..... I love anything sweet and just say I'll do better tomorrow. I can not have sweets in the house or I eat them. No self control.
  • TourThePast
    TourThePast Posts: 1,753 Member

    Personally, I often take "unhealthy" foods to meetings etc. because it's my chance to just have one.

    if by "unhealthy" you mean "those foods it's only appropriate to eat in small quantities" then I'm right with you....
    Yes, the quotation marks which I used in my post were not meant to represent a quoted portion of speech, they were used in the context of signalling the ironic or unusual use of a word.

    Obviously one item cannot be considered unhealthy if taken in isolation, unless it contains substances such as cyanide.
  • EBFNP
    EBFNP Posts: 529 Member
    Its good habit to have to refuse food from "food pushers." My mom used to put food in the house in which she KNEW I would eat in order for me to "eat more." It took me a while to look the other way. Its not easy because I love to eat, but I am def learning.
  • Back2Basic
    Back2Basic Posts: 69 Member
    I tend to laugh, pat my stomach and say "oh no! I couldn't" I have left more than one person feeling slightly offended, but if they were close enough, I remind them that I am trying to eat healthy, and don't need the temptation. My husband is no good at that, his dad is the kind that always put more food on his kids' plates. I was eating with them once, and he absent-mindedly put another huge spoon of potatoes on my plate! It was funny but kind of annoying because I was full! Anyway, I just tell people they were too delicious and I don't have the will power. If you complement them, it seems to be easier to take the rejection.
  • FrostyFour
    FrostyFour Posts: 262
    UGH! My mother in law keeps doing that! She brought home an entire cake *just for me* to eat when she KNOWS I'm on a diet!
  • FrostyFour
    FrostyFour Posts: 262
    What drives me even more crazy is that she had WL surgery like 10 years ago but she's fat now ... I've told her NO NO NO NO NO
  • Inebriated
    Inebriated Posts: 271
    I would have taken them and given them to a homeless person on a corner. It may not be the healthiest thing but it may be the only thing they got that night.

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