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TW I am angry at my parents for letting me get into so many bad habits 😭

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ThisPearlOP · 24/06/2025 11:07

title, I have no clue if this is an ok thought to have but I need to write this down also SRY because maybe vent ahead because I cannot stop thinking about it I am literally getting flash backs as me sitting on my carpet in my room eating one bowl after the other or something like what felt like a mountain of food or watching TV for what must have been 15 hours straight on the weekends oh my god...I know this is where it happened and that I ruined my life!!! I wish someone would have told my younger self that you cannot just eat according to appetite and that you cannot act like this all day!!!

I would eat entire packets of oats or a loaf of bread THE WHOLE THING like really the entire sleeve of toast and 2-3 packs of cheese and sausage and so on and then take another 2-4 sandwiches wich me for lunch and start eating them on the way to school etc so I would prob eat twice my TDEE in 1 hour after waking up...!!!

I remember out-eating several adults AS A KID. Multiple grown people. I would eat my meal, another serving or two, everyone's leftovers, and be like meh. what are we having next? That is completely ridiculous and insane and everyone cutesy ignored it or was laughing about how I have a big appetite and whatnot!!!!

I also watched TV non stop I was either at school or watching TV or playing nintendo DS and that WAS unhealthy i am sure because I would rage when I lost at games and stuff I remember having to fix it with tape because I smashed it up so bad when I got so aggressive during games I also had a ps2 that was already kinda old back then and I would throw the controllers I would yell and scream at everyone and I cannot believe I was like this I remember ripping my bed sheets and everything to shreds in a rage and that was 100% over some game no idea what!!!!

Also one time there was some event similar to halloween and I was gifted a whole bag worth of candy plus my shirt as bag so it was A LOT and I carried all of it towards my room and my mom yelled after me watch out you will get sick because she KNEW I was running off to go sit and EAT all of that at once!!!!

WHY WHY did she not stop me of course I would have cried and whatever if she took my sweets away but now as adult I very seriously wish she would have been like no way you cannot eat 2 kilo of candy and I swear it was that much I remember just one part of the little mountain of sweets that I had on my carpet was a whole a 500g bag of schoko bons (a popular candy in Germany) and that is absurd I must have eaten 10k calories as a kid on a random evening I could CRY just thinking about it!!!!

HOW HOW HOW did no one notice that this is so far away from what anyone would consider normal and that I would mess up my LIFE!!!

THE THING is though that my parents were both nice I had the freedom in the world I never got punished they were never mean they bought me everything I wanted so how can I be angry at the it makes no sense I am such a terrible kid when I you think about it!!! But then again I WISH I would have grown up in a way that might have been more restrictive but maybe I would be healthier now!!! 😭 How can I just forget that and move on or can anyone relate why I think this way now??? Believe me I am so ashamed of this already!!!!

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SpacedOutOut · 24/06/2025 11:22

I get it. As a child I was beaten if I didn’t finish my plate of food. Whether it was a case of being full or not liking it, I’d be dragged from the chair and beaten repeatedly until I’d eaten it all. Took me till my mid 30’s to realise I didn’t have to finish my meal! And I could just have smaller portions. I was given the same sized dinners as the adults from a very young age.

its given me a lifetime of food/weight issues.

arcticpandas · 24/06/2025 11:19

Your parents were pretty crap, but maybe that's the way they were "parented" eg neglected and that was their normal. You will not repeat their errors I'm sure.

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 24/06/2025 11:18

Well,your parents could've been really restrictive like mine were which didn't work either.

You're an adult now, you can change your habits ,there is absolutely no point blaming your upbringing .

gamerchick · 24/06/2025 11:14

Thing is, when we recognise as an adult that our childhood contributed to how we are today. That's when we say no more and make changes. We're not totally helpless and held captive by the past.

your parents didn't sound up to scratch no. It's today that matters now though.

stayathomer · 24/06/2025 11:12

I’m so sorry op but while yes they should have tried to get you to stop (although they might have, we don’t always have reliable memories of our childhood), you can’t blame them, at some stage you became an adult and now it’s up to you to deal with it.

Also remember when parents feed, they think you’re better off, I know even now when I look off at all my mum automatically asks am I eating, and when I put on weight and think I could do with losing some my mum automatically comments that I’m looking very good and healthy.

Swearwolf · 24/06/2025 11:12

I can understand where you’re coming from - you were a child and it wasn’t up to you to control your diet and lifestyle. I think all you can do, really, is aim to live differently as an adult and try to break those habits. It’s never too late.

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