Today, my morbidly obese mother gave me an angry lecture at dinner, saying without any trace of irony that my vegetarian diet is "unhealthy and utterly unacceptable". FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I scolded my son at a buffet after he pointed at an obese woman in a motorized wheelchair and asked how anyone could let themselves get so unhealthy. As I lectured him on genetics and thyroid problems, she rolled past with a plate stacked with an obscene amount of fried food. FML
Today, my stepmother, an uncontrolled diabetic who refuses to change her abhorrent eating habits, berated me for how "mean" I am for limiting my kids’ junk food, and making them eat a portion of vegetables with every meal. Yeah, real mean. FML
Today, despite feeling healthier than ever, losing fat, gaining muscle and having perfect blood results, my morbidly obese relatives keep telling me that my new vegan diet is "unhealthy". FML
Today, I had to sit and listen in mortification as my mother tearfully told our therapist how much sleep she loses over my being morbidly obese. She doesn't seem to care that I'm body positive and happy with the way I am. FML
Today, after I skipped dessert for the third day in a row, my mom cornered me and accused me of being anorexic. I'm actually not far off being clinically obese and I'm just trying to diet, but nothing I say will convince her. She wants me to see a psychiatrist about a disorder I don't even have. FML
Today, I asked my mom if she could include mashed potatoes and gravy with dinner. She then went on to yell at me about my "unhealthy eating habits" and how I've "gained a lot of weight in the past few months". I'm pregnant. FML
Today, I told my mom that I think I’m anorexic and she told me she didn’t care. When I asked why, in disbelief she replied, "Honey, you are 5’3 and over 350 lbs, at this point you NEED to be anorexic." FML
Today, I decided I need help, so I confessed to my mother that I'm bulimic. After she looked it up online she started screaming at me for "Wasting food that I'm not paying for." FML
Today, I found out my mother-in-law is trying to force me to lose weight, even though I am trying, and have a medical condition. FML
Today, my boyfriend called my mother stupid and angrily argued with her at a family dinner. Why? We have a long-running family joke that "Vegan food doesn't contain calories," and my boyfriend thought my mum said it seriously, and was therefore a moron. FML
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karcummings 19
Sounds like you need to give her a lesson on what and what's not healthy.
wheresmymary 22
Her attitude is unhealthy and utterly unacceptable!
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Comments (151)
Shmatterhorn 38
She is setting a great example for you to not follow. Good luck, OP.
anabanana101 15
Makes sense that's she's obese if she thinks like that
fiveforfighting 26
People can be so ignorant, maybe you just need to inform her of your diet. Lots of people think it's unhealthy to not eat meat. Hope everything works out in the end for you OP
llalala_fml 19
I knew a vegetarian that basically only ate ice cream. Just because someone's vegetarian does not automatically make them healthy or even mean that they eat vegetables. She may have been making an entirely true statement and her weight has nothing to do with her state of health.
Wsparta 26
gotta hate hypocrisy
Jasti 12
this made me giggle. I know some people who are overweight and insanely unhealthy who scold me obsessively for being unhealthy as a vegetarian.
Arot6 17
I think you mean sarcasm. The speech she gave was absolutely laden with irony.
ftloosenfanzfree 7
Sarcasm is a form of irony.
zarrganaut 17
She wants you to be like her. (In her eyes, "healthy")
pimpmilk69 18
that's a doctors note if anything
Sparx1_1 16
Cutting meat out of your diet does not automatically make you healthy. If OP is not getting the protein and other nutrients specific to meat from other sources then his diet it bullshit and he is not healthy. Malnutrition and anemia are extremely common in vegetarian diets. Cutting out meat is not a healthy choice for most people. Morbidly obese is a specific term that only applies to specific weight ranges. Calling your parent that does not mean she is and also does not indicate her overall health. Healthy people come in all sizes. When you call yourself tardspawn it's a pretty good indication that moms weight isn't the problem.