I’m a male. The earliest I remember being called skinny was about 6 or 7. This carried on until my early twenties. Mainly from family members encouraging me to eat more, calling me skinny, grabbing my arms with their fingers, calling me “skin and bones,” making me finish my plate even when I wasn’t hungry etc. I remember being happy I finally reached 100 pounds (as if a child should even be concerned about that). Now they weren’t wrong, I was skinny, but I was healthy and looking back that’s no way to treat a child. I’m sure I would have filled out fine.
Well, once I got out on my own, I ate and ate and ate. Maybe subconsciously because I was called skinny so much, I don’t know. But it resulted in me getting 30 lbs overweight. Not horrible but definitely noticeable and has affected my well being. I still have about 15-20 left to lose but I wonder if I was just treated like a child none of this would have happened. It’s hard for me to blame them because they were doing it lovingly and doing what they thought was right, but sometimes all I want to do is blame them.
Can anyone relate to this or is this weird backwards thinking?
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