esmeotto
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I really shouldn't have told my mother I was doing CD, but as she's coming to visit next week for 5 days with my 14 year old half sister, I had to forwarn her that I won't be eating but I will still cook her them as I'm cooking for DH and the kids.
Her first question was how much is it, and then went on to say I don't spend that much in a week on food, today I've had some ginger biscuits and then I'll have something when L (half sister) has gone to bed. Everything gets turned around to her. She then went on to say, well the Atkins one didn't work did it, and that other one you did (I did Gillian McKeith for a month before cracking).
Everything is so negative from her, I just said well thanks for your encouragement.
Last night she phoned and said how's it going, I said I've lost 10lbs since starting my prep week & 5 days on SS, she didn't say oh that's great, just said oh it won't last! So I said right if i get down to a size 12 (something I've never been since I was 9 probably) you can give me £100! So she said yes, she will (she's on benefits, so it's alot for her) which makes me even more determind to do it. I won't take the money I want to prove a point. She also swung it around to her again, saying oooh I was a size 12 once and put it all back on again, I'm a size 14 or 16 now, but i'm not bothered how much I weigh...arghhhhhh.
Looking back and having conversations with my older sister, (who is also overweight), our problems with food are probably related to her negative attitude about everything and life in general. When we went clothes shopping as children she would always say to the assistants "oh I can never get anything to fit them" and we weren't huge! But having things like that drilled into you becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, something I am now retreating from....I can be slim.
So I'm really not looking forward to her visit next week, she is not an easy person to get along with.....sorry I just needed to vent, I'm trying to rise above it!
Her first question was how much is it, and then went on to say I don't spend that much in a week on food, today I've had some ginger biscuits and then I'll have something when L (half sister) has gone to bed. Everything gets turned around to her. She then went on to say, well the Atkins one didn't work did it, and that other one you did (I did Gillian McKeith for a month before cracking).
Everything is so negative from her, I just said well thanks for your encouragement.
Last night she phoned and said how's it going, I said I've lost 10lbs since starting my prep week & 5 days on SS, she didn't say oh that's great, just said oh it won't last! So I said right if i get down to a size 12 (something I've never been since I was 9 probably) you can give me £100! So she said yes, she will (she's on benefits, so it's alot for her) which makes me even more determind to do it. I won't take the money I want to prove a point. She also swung it around to her again, saying oooh I was a size 12 once and put it all back on again, I'm a size 14 or 16 now, but i'm not bothered how much I weigh...arghhhhhh.
Looking back and having conversations with my older sister, (who is also overweight), our problems with food are probably related to her negative attitude about everything and life in general. When we went clothes shopping as children she would always say to the assistants "oh I can never get anything to fit them" and we weren't huge! But having things like that drilled into you becomes a self fulfilling prophecy, something I am now retreating from....I can be slim.
So I'm really not looking forward to her visit next week, she is not an easy person to get along with.....sorry I just needed to vent, I'm trying to rise above it!