Help! I am expected to be a food enabler!

bonjourdollface
bonjourdollface Posts: 56
edited September 30 in Food and Nutrition
My mother is not on board with my lifestyle change, and since I am home from college right now I have to deal with this daily. I can deal with her not caring enough about herself to change, but I can't handle her expecting me to buy and make her unhealthy foods while she makes my life hell because I want to be healthy. Have any of you experienced this? How have you dealt with it?

Replies

  • danger_kitteh
    danger_kitteh Posts: 301 Member
    My mom is a bit that way. When I go home to visit her, I cook dinner and I pretty much tell her this is what gets put on the table if she doesn't like it well, she's free to make a sandwich...
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Yeah ^^ that. When you are doing the cooking, they can eat it or make their own. Let her whine like the child she is acting like, and continue to eat what YOU want. You're an adult, right?
  • danger_kitteh
    danger_kitteh Posts: 301 Member
    I'm sure all of us in one way or another with our parents (especially 30 somethings with aging folks) find that as the years go on, the roles reverse and we are now the parents and they're the kids -lol- My mom will be 70 years old in February and I swear sometimes she's worse than a 15 year old girl being told she can't go to the homecoming dance for bad grades.
  • grrrlface
    grrrlface Posts: 1,204 Member
    I make what I want and if my parents don't like it they can get their own. We usually have seperate meals anyway but if they can't be bothered to cook they usually have takeout which makes me feel better that I've distanced myself from that. :)
  • SwtKittN
    SwtKittN Posts: 176 Member
    It's hard for me when I do the family shopping and the other people in my family aren't dieting so I have to buy the pop and the cookies and chips.. Or when someone else goes and buys then and leaves them all sitting out tempting me. My brother came over last week and we got KFC, and even with grilled chicken the sides are soo fattening just bleh. I try to buy healthy stuff so like when they get their chips I can have my light lays chips which I was introduced to on these boards :) Taste the same, half the calories omg delicious XD

    But yes it's VERY hard.
  • bonjourdollface
    bonjourdollface Posts: 56
    Yeah ^^ that. When you are doing the cooking, they can eat it or make their own. Let her whine like the child she is acting like, and continue to eat what YOU want. You're an adult, right?


    I still eat healthy, aka the foods I want to eat, she just gets an attitude about it
This discussion has been closed.

Categories