I'm trying to lose a bit of weight & generally tone up/improve my health. I'm near the top of the healthy BMI range for my height. However I feel that my efforts are being undermined by PILs' & occasionally DH's "gifts" of unhealthy food etc which I am expected to be grateful for. If I decline the gifts I am being ungrateful, if I accept them they keep bringing them. (The unsuitable gifts are not limited to food but at least the other stuff doesn't make me fat - it does clutter my house up though.)
I have in the past, struggled with ED, including bulimia. DH is aware of this, PILs don't know. I have been clear with all of them, on many occasions, that I am trying to be healthy, I would prefer (for example) a small bar of good quality dark chocolate as opposed to a big box of cheaper chocolate. I have often binned food gifts as I can't bear to have them in the house, I know I would have given in & it's a slippery slope.
It probably doesn't help that they are none of them slim - perhaps they feel that as I have less of a weight problem/less health issues than them, that my concerns are not valid? In which case, how do I frame it? If they were to find out about the ED I don't know what they would think but I don't imagine they would be more supportive of my battle to keep to a healthy diet & not go back to how I used to be.
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TelephoneIgnoringMachine · 22/04/2015 10:28
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