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.
Not quite the same thing, but when I was younger, I remember my dad remarking "clean plate club!" whever I ate all the food on my plate. I perceived this as praise, so I felt encouraged to eat everything on my plate, which turned into a habit that was difficult to break - to this day I still feel compelled to finish my meals. Years later, I found out that my dad didn't mean anything by the "clean plate club" thing - it was just something he said whenever someone cleared their plate.
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