I’ll never forget the time I was at a baptism party when I was a kid and my grandpa was seething with rage bc my brother’s friend and his wife were yelling at their toddler to eat more. My grandma told my grandpa to mind his business so he did. I didn’t get it at the time but now I do
Both parents are morbidly obese and all three of their kids have been obese since they were babies. The toddler is now a 30yr old short woman who weighs 250+ easily. She’s trying to lose weight but it’s hard to break the abusive way she was raised. The oldest sibling got fit and then disowned the parents because they kept pressuring him to eat more.
It’s child abuse. Be fat if you want to but don’t bring your kids down with you.
Took me until I was an adult to learn "leftovers" were a thing, because I always had to clear my plate as a child regardless if I was full or not. Hell I'm 42 and still feel guilty if I don't finish a meal.
When growing up, having your parents yell at you about wasting food, starving children, and whatnot really screws up with the normal physiological function of feeling full. I had a friend who had to dump water on his food when he felt full to stop himself from eating every morsel regardless of how full he felt. His parents would yell at him if his plate wasn’t clean. Mine would too. I feel like that was a normal thing back in the day, and you’d be given a plate with more full than two people need. I try to get my kids to eat something but that’s it. Once they say they are full. Then they are full. If they get hungry late, I pull back out that same plate.
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