I never really thought this would be something I experienced but unfortunately it has. I've become increasingly frustrated with my family and their reactions towards my weightloss.
And it's not like they are even openly being spiteful of it, but rather just little things that they say and do that really start to nag at me.
For example:
I post a picture. This picture includes me smiling. Now, anyone that knows me knows that I DO NOT smile on pictures. It's something I've always struggled with and has had a lot to do with my weight. I didn't like pictures period but ones of me smiling made me cringe super hard. I finally took one that I liked... And instead of being supportive about it, my brother began acting weird about it, which eventually devolved into him making criticizing remarks about the photo and ruining a photo for me that I was proud of.
Then I've been having to try to avoid certain subjects around my mother. For example.. Food. We can't just talk about food. It suddenly turns into this commentary by her about her complaints about food and why she can't lose weight and why what I do and eat would NEVER work for her. And I find myself just quickly trying to flee as fast as I can because it's becoming so exhausting. I feel like I can't even talk to her most of the time because it always turns into the same conversations about weight.
And then oddly enough my other brother who is in a normal weight range and pretty muscular has actually been pretty supportive of me, which is kind of odd because he's not usually like that.
Not that I'm complaining about that one. It just feels like dynamics of my family have changed since I started losing weight. Some positive but also a lot of negative. I'm not sure how to feel about it or what I should do about it.
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