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Worried about dd & dsil weight

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Feelinhothothott · 27/05/2026 04:38

I'm going to get flamed for this, but to put it mildly dd & dsil are way too overweight & I'm worried about it. They seem to be getting bigger every year. She says their portion sizes are not massive when they eat at home, it's lack of exercise. They sure make up for it when we go out to eat & we're paying though. We've seen the cakes & bottles of beer & diet coke in their fridge though.
They both have professional, but sedentry jobs.
The worst part is that they have 1 dd. Luckily, she's very sporty & is keeping it off. She's approaching puberty & I can see a bit of baby fat appearing, so hopefully they will keep it at bay.
They do not plan on having anymore dc. I'm worried that they will die fairly young, leaving dd on her own & lonely at a lot younger age than you'd normally be when you lose your parents.
I've talked to her about it before, but it falls on deaf ears. How can I make her see that they need to get a lot healthier, if not for their own sakes, but for the sake of their dd?

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VanillaIceIceBaby · 27/05/2026 07:50

I thought the OP meant her own daughter, her own daughter’s female partner and the OP’s daughter and partner’s daughter who is a child.

TheBlueKoala · 27/05/2026 07:44

Offer to buy them Mounjaro if you can afford it @Feelinhothothott

Miyagi99 · 27/05/2026 07:41

Princessconsuelabananahammock9 · 27/05/2026 04:55

Because it’s not healthy on top of the weight and crappy food.

It’s not healthy but it can be used while cutting down the calories as it fills you up while only being negligible in calories itself.

teacheronline · 27/05/2026 07:07

parietal · 27/05/2026 06:57

Do you mean your DD and your SIL? Or her child? Or DBro instead of DD? Seems confusing.

she means her DD and her DDs partner. d son in law.

parietal · 27/05/2026 06:57

Do you mean your DD and your SIL? Or her child? Or DBro instead of DD? Seems confusing.

VanillaIceIceBaby · 27/05/2026 06:54

What was your DD’s weight and diet like when she was living with you? I really don’t know what you can do here. My husband’s sister is morbidly obese and has become so in the last ten years after being slim most of her life. It is worrying. My dh does try and talk to her about it occasionally but it’s really difficult. He has said to me that if she was a drug addict or an alcoholic he wouldn’t just stand back and do nothing.

All I can think of is suggesting that you do more active things when you meet up.

When girls get into their teens many of them do seem to drop out of sports so I suppose that’s a time when you could intervene if the dd does lose her interest in sports. Suggest different things that she might like to try. Athletics is good for teenagers for example.

PermanentTemporary · 27/05/2026 05:18

It has thrown me a bit being with dp as both his children are obese, and when I met him I think his daughter and her partner were morbidly obese - both in fact look a good bit healthier now and have got more active, but I don’t think the underlying issue has changed. I’m fairly terrified that ds will go the same way at some point, because we live in an obesogenic environment. The fact is that you just have to try and let go of it. I used to watch my late husband’s mother offering her own obese daughter low fat ice cream or some dreadful shit at family dinners, and cutting out healthy diet planners from the newspaper for her and cringe, because all it did was ruin their relationship and embarrass her. Keep the relationship in as good a state as you can manage and hope against hope that they decide at some point to look after their health. Maybe save for your granddaughter too, because you’re not wrong that there’s a high chance they’ll have shorter lives.

Princessconsuelabananahammock9 · 27/05/2026 04:55

BeanQuisine · 27/05/2026 04:45

Diet Coke has virtually zero calories, so it's not clear why you mentioned it.

Because it’s not healthy on top of the weight and crappy food.

BeanQuisine · 27/05/2026 04:45

Diet Coke has virtually zero calories, so it's not clear why you mentioned it.

YoCharlie · 27/05/2026 04:45

You can't so don't even try. I've seen it, time and time again, going through it myself with family members and used to be obese. There is nothing you can say, at all, that is going to help.