I was just wondering if your family is supportive and considerate about your weight loss choice?

Today was probably my biggest challenge yet, my parents were getting fish and chips and I had to turn it down. :eek: I must be crazy. So my mum kept trying to get me to have a few chips but I was like NO I'm eating a kiwi instead.

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Sure, my husband keeps telling me I look great, and while he offers me chips occasionally, it doesn't bother me, and it doesn't bother him that I refuse.

I hate it when he keeps bringing junk food home for the kids though. :mad:

Why exactly was your mother trying to get you to eat chips? Was she just winding you up or is she just really inconsiderate?

Why exactly was your mother trying to get you to eat chips? Was she just winding you up or is she just really inconsiderate?

I don't think she was winding me up, I think its just that she doesn't really understand that I'm trying to loose weight. Ok she does understand. Um I don't know, I think it's because she knows that I like them, so she was trying to be considerate, but was infact being inconsiderate trying to tempt me into eating chips.

ps. English to American translation: chips = fries

I have a kitchen FULL of all the junk food my parents send me to "help me out" I'll eat a little everyonce in a while on cheat day, but I'm reminded of the toaster strudle commercial with the locker full of pop tarts...i'm not sure what i'm going to do with it all! Last trip included cookies, candy bars, chex mix and A JAR FULL OF FUDGE...I just try to block its existance out of my mind.

My family are vocally supportive. Problem is they dont really understand. Whenever I go home all my mum wants to do is feed me up and my dad keeps getting take aways. I'm not going to tell the guys i live with. Lads can be such bastards when they know someone wants to change something about themself that they secretly wanna do but cant be arsed.

my parents were getting fish and chips and I had to turn it down. :eek: I must be crazy. So my mum kept trying to get me to have a few chips but I was like NO I'm eating a kiwi instead.
You'd be crazy if you ate that stuff.

You should a talk with your mom. It is not cool that she tried to sabotage your commitment. Tell her that this is important to you and you really need her support, which means respecting your diet. Hopefully she will understand, and maybe even try to not eat those kinds of foods in your presense.

Heart Disease is the number 1 killer in America. Why? Simple, saturated fats and fried foods. Most people dismiss this. In a similar fashion, people having heart attacks will often tell themselves its gas/heartburn until they're almost at deaths door. Why? People don’t want to even think about the fact that they are going to die. They want to pretend that everything is ok for as long as they can. This short sighted 'ostrich syndrome' leads to unhealthy lifestyles, and, all too often, the thing they cant face: death.

So this goes out to anyone,.
If your family doesn’t support your endeavors to eat clean and be healthy, they cannot see the long view. If they could, and they loved you, they'd be behind you 100%.

I was just wondering if your family is supportive and considerate about your weight loss choice?

Today was probably my biggest challenge yet, my parents were getting fish and chips and I had to turn it down. :eek: I must be crazy. So my mum kept trying to get me to have a few chips but I was like NO I'm eating a kiwi instead.

:eat:

Hey man, you should be careful, a kiwi has a pretty high Glycemic Index. :confused:



Just Kidding! Good for you. Resisting the daily temptations around us, even as they are pushed in our faces, is the hardest challenge when it comes to dieting. It looks like you're set for the long haul if you can resist some crispy battered cod and delicious golden fries with salt and a little vinegar... :drool: ...

sorry, I tend to eat a lot of imaginary foods now that I can't eat them for real :D

my mum used to always go "oh well you can have a little bit of bad food" only thing is that she said that every day, trying to offer me stuff that i always refused
so i ended up telling her that if i eat something bad every day, even a little bit, it will add up and all my work will be lost
i also told her to never offer me food again! it seemed to work :)

my mom and dad are pretty supportive of it, but my stepdad is the one that really needs to lose weight along with me and he continually acts like I'm going to quit and fall short (which is really odd because we normally get along so well) I think he is just getting upset because I tell him how bad his Big Mac is for him and he tells me how bad my tun tastes!! So I guess its not him being unsupportive but more him feeling guilty for not taking better care of himself
Dan

well my dad gave up smoking 5 weeks ago, and since then he's been chucking on the weight because he's eating all the time. He keeps pulling up his shirt and looking at his beer gut, wondering what it is doing there.

He doesn't understand that to loose weight you have to give up foods you like. He keeps laughing when he hears I'm not eating what they are, and gives a little laugh when he sees me on the cycle.

That's why its always best to find alternative healthy foods that you do like, and I'm sure there are plenty out there. That's one of the reasons so many people were railing against slim fast earlier, sure it may help you in the short term, but it doesn't do a lot in the long run.

I'm sure its rather difficult for you since your so young, relatively, but cooking for yourself would help you out a lot. You'd have a lot more control over portion sizes, as well as scheduling the timing of your meals. Check the recipes section, they have a lot of good info there, and most stuff isn't too hard to make.

Anyways, back on topic, my family doesn't really understand and are rather indifferent. For the most part, I'm at the point where I can take care of myself pretty well, in that a scarfing down cheeseburgers every day just makes me queasy.

Because in a few months, I'm sure he won't be laughing after seeing all the progress you've made. Then you can convert your whole family into health nuts.

My wife who I love dearly thinks I am obsessed right now. She is glad I chose to make the change but thinks I will burn myself out on it. My biggest problem is that I am having trouble getting her to realize that supplements are needed. She believed the Media BS she was fed about Ephedra. So she thinks all supplements fall into that category. She tries going to the gym with me , she is pregnant and has to be careful what she does. After about 20 minutes she is done, and ready to go. I then feel rushed and feel that I am not doing my weight training right. So I actually look forward to the days that I go when she does not.

I love her dearly and thank God that she is in my life. She has had a very positive attitude about it all. She was will to change what she eats in order to help me eat better.

My mum and dad are kinda neutral, and I don't have the problem of having junk in the house as I live on my own. However, they don't really understand the need to be skinny... I'm from a heavy family, I think everyone of them (and there are lots!) work with their hands to one degree or another, and all of them are fit and strong.

I certainly don't have any pressure problems with my weight, as the circle of people I mix in are all large (mostly we're not talking fat here, but my lightest friend is about 6' and fifteen stone and the heaviest is my eldest brother at 6'4" and around 25 stone). Very few of them have dieted (or even thought about it), they just let their weight sort itself out. If I mentioned "calories", they'd probably wonder what I was on about! :rolleyes:

So what I'm saying is, while no one says "come on, eat this!" they're not exactly supportive, either. They're a mix between mildly confused and very dis-interested! :)

My wife is very supportive, and is looking forward to joining me once she's no longer pregnant. Even my two-year-old daughter is supportive. Whenever she can, she gets on the equipment in the basement, grabs her two-pound weights and says, "One, two. One, two."