To think taking chocolates round to someone trying to lose a lot of weight

[TheFunkyFox]

Is the same as taking a bottle to am recovering alcoholics house?

Mil keeps doing this. We don’t mention we are dieting (me and dp) but we have lost a lot of weight.

I have a lot of demons around food. It’s taken me a lot of therapy and help to get to even where I am now (along long way to go!) she knows the issues I have around food.

Yet I feel like she wants to see us fail. We don’t see her often but when we do she brings things like- that giant ostrich Easter egg from Aldi for me and dp, left over bowls of mashed potatoes, cold pasta etc just anything she doesn’t want to waste.

Today she’s turned up with a cardboard box full to the rim of kinder chocolates/eggs, buttons, milky ways etc. A good £20 worth of chocolates!

We or the kids don’t need that much chocolate. We tell her but she doesn’t listen 😩😩

Most of the stuff that’s not opened we donate to the food bank.

But it is bloody disrespectful I think when we’ve told her not too 😩
I can’t even blame it on being a loving nanny who wants to spoil her grandkids because she normally cba with them at all and has zero bond with them.

craving not caving!

Agree with putting them back in her car, or giving them to the food bank (don't squirt washing up liquid on them, I grew up short of cash and the thought of people doing that in this country while so many kids go hungry is a bit horrible).

To help with general challenges Brain Over Binge is an amazing book. I can now keep biscuits in the house again!

I'm not trying to lose weight but when we get given stuff like that we don't want it gets taken into work - wither mine or husbands. It goes in minutes!

See... I could never bin chocolates. Even to make a point.

Either bin them or have a pact with a hungry neighbour that you'll bring the spoils around the second that she has left.

Do you think she meant to give them to the kids? They look like chocolates you'd give to a child rather than an adult. I would bag them up in an opaque bag, wrap cellotape around the bag (to make it more difficult to open!) and put them in the car, ready to go to the food bank.

PettyContractor of course, why didn't the OP think of that

The OP has already made the decision to not eat these things. She does this by not having the things in the house to tempt her, which has obviously been working because she has lost a lot of weight. The MiL then drives a big bulldozer through her resolve by bringing a fuckton of chocolates into the house. People aren't robots, if you have problems with binge eating and impulse control it's not as easy as just not eating stuff that makes you fat. Did you read the OP that she had had to undergo therapy?

Honestly. The fact that you have been able to overcome your food issues even to this stage is a big achievement, OP. Why do some people have to jump in and insist that you're doing it wrong because you're not doing it the way THEY think you ought to?

Despite my friend knowing that I am losing weight successfully she still buys me a huge bag of sweets every week, and wont take no thankyou for an answer so I pass them onto the foodbank

It's awful, and really unhelpful. It annoys me when people pop up and say "you have to learn to say no , everything in moderation, blah blah blah".

Does she come when the kids are home? Call them over and say "kids, pick a treat from Granny's bag, she'll be taking it all home later as we can't possibly eat all that".

Nickname her granny 'choc a lot'.

Say things in a jokey way like "are you trying to kill us?" "Diabetes here we come" etc.

Push back. She isn't respecting your boundaries, so you have to be pushier!

You could donate the chocolates to the local library or doctor's office as a treat for the staff
Why would they want them particularly? There might be people in the same position as the OP.

My DGM is like this. If you have the right willpower you’ll be able to give the food back to her or to someone else. Losing and maintaining weight is all down to willpower.

Why would they want them particularly? There might be people in the same position as the OP.

Good point. Our office is literally chocka (lol) with unwanted eggs after Easter.

I have developed great wilpower and self control - to not buy the damn stuff in the first place! Having lost 4st, I think it's a bit bizarre that people think they can tell me when I can/cannot eat for my diet when it's obviously working. (My mum is a bugger for this, frowning at my big meals when at theirs - which I have planned and exercised for, and are my treat for the week, if not month!)

The staff could always offer them to people coming by, or put them next to the diabetes leaflets. Or on the health section of the library.

She's trying to sabotage your diet. Tell her to stop bringing shit food round to your place. If she does again, stop her at the door and tell her to leave it in the car.

She obviously does not respect you at all.

Is your MIL overweight?...
Good luck, by the way.

Perhaps be clear that you will just give it all away, so her money will be wasted.

I once had a friend bring me KFC when I was veggie. I was pg and craving protein. She was a really good veggie cook, so was def sabotaging. I feel your pain!