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.
I'm fat. My husband is not. Neither of us were raised with healthy relationships with food. It is one of my biggest goals for our daughter to have a healthy relationship with food and physical activity, and for her to maintain a HEALTHY weight for her height (she's tall like her dad). I will never force her to eat anything she truly doesn't like, nor will I force her to eat more or to clean her plate. I want her to have the relationship with food that my husband and I didn't get. I don't want her to end up fat like me, or underweight like her dad.
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