Bringing your food to family reunion?

How do you feel about missing it? Do you want to go? Will there be a huge fallout if you don't go? I would either go and eat some of what's there and just chalk it up and move on...or I wouldn't go at all...if they are that jerk like towards you.

OP losing weight should not be this difficult, and it definitely shouldn't interfere with family time.
No, don't bring your own different food to a lunch you have been invited to...

choose wisely, one day wont really matter.

Are you competing?
Do you get money for dieting?
Can you not fit the food into your calories/macros?

I would be weary about your relationship with food.
A family event is amazing, cherish it.

If you don't want to go because relatives can be annoying, make the decision because of that. If it's because you are worried about fitting it in, well it might be time to reevaluate what and why you are doing this.

Go and don't worry about it.

mikkielias wrote: »

Presumably there is more to the story than you're letting on if your family hint at you having disordered eating habits?

not really, I just like eating healthy, they don't get it maybe because none of them (except for my mother) eats like I do. They even make a family drama if I prefer to skip dessert. Even my cousin who is a nutritionist starts to tell me I shouldn't be that dedicated with my diet <- are you serious?¡
- I don't get it in general why people worry much about what others rather eat or not.[/quote]

There's eating healthy and there's eating too little. Are you? If your cousin is telling you that, and she's a nutritionist, don't you think there might be a grain of reality in it? Disordered eating isn't just about eating too much or too little, it can be that you have obsessive habits and your family have picked up on it and are jovially, in their opinion, trying to get you to loosen up. Perhaps you should chat to a dietitian or your doctor about this?

mikkielias wrote: »

DawnieB1977 wrote: »

TavistockToad wrote: »

mikkielias wrote: »

Hey, so tomorrow I have a family reunion, it is supposed to be a lunch and I´m not sure on what they going to serve. But it´s provably going to be pasta, some kind of ravioli with a walnut sauce or a tomato one. I have been very careful with my diet and hitting my macros. I already planed my day for tomorrow and I don't want to ruin it. I don't know if I should just skip this reunion (because my family doesn't support me on my goals, they always make fun of me and my diet and think that I only eat salads (*kitten* please! I almost eat 230 grams of carbs a day!) or should I just pack my lunch and bring it with me?
Thoughts on this?

If you eat 230g of carbs a day, I'm surprised you can't just work pasta for lunch into your macros? That being said it depends on whether you're really bothered about attending the reunion in the first place?

Exactly, I'd have thought some pasta and tomato sauce would be perfect for hitting that carb target.

If that's you in your profile pic, I'm not sure why you're worried about 1 day. Unless you really don't want to see your family, in which case don't go.

well maybe its also because of that, my family kind of leaves me a side in those reunions, they don't even speak to me and when they serve lunch and the food plates even if I eat what they are all eating they all start making jokes like: can't believe you are eating carbs, or: are you going to puke that later? or ¨miracle just happened¨Ï bet because of this food you won't eat any more during the day¨ those kind of jokes hurt me

Did you guys read what she wrote? She eats a ton of carbs and her family is like "omg you're eating carbs?" She said they don't really talk to her except to make jokes I guess. The nutritionist probably believes in eating "balanced" diets and probably doesn't track calories so she doesn't get it. Not all nutritionists actually know the info that people on here do.

You don't sound like you have an eating problem to me. It sounds like your family is full of jerks. I say don't go if it's not too late to say so. Maybe they will miss you and treat you better if you hang around less.