This posted was submitted by sparkle1202 It's become an expected, almost ritualistic occurrence when I see my parents. Hug, hug, kiss, kiss... "my goodness, I can feel your ribs! You need to eat more!" After losing 65 pounds and making a real commitment to maintaining my new weight and living a healthy lifestyle, my biggest problem is no longer resisting the temptation of chocolate. It’s learning how to deflect subtle unsupportive comments from my family and friends, whose most recent physical activity was lifting their forks to their mouths at dinner. Don't get me wrong, I love them but I don't love their enabling behaviors.
They may believe that they are encouraging me to indulge a little, but that's not how I see it. For me, there's a fine line between eating ice cream in moderation and having a grand old time with my best friends, Ben and Jerry. As I was in the process of developing healthier behaviors, these things would happen and make it that much harder to keep going.
I think I have pretty strong willpower, but I don't know if others have strong enough constitution to continuously resist mom's home cooking when waved in their faces, or to have a salad while everyone else is digging in to burgers and fries. No wonder people have such a hard time losing the weight for good.
How do you deal with peer pressure when you're on a diet?
Does family/home cooking ever come in the way of workout or exercise goals?
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I've found that I can succumb to the home cooked meals as long as I maintain a lot of portion control. My mom is the type of person who pops each person their own bag of popcorn when watching a movie, so she looks at me like I'm crazy when I take a couple of kernels and then announce that I'm full. But seriously, everything in moderation.
My grandma is always trying to force me to eat junk. Sometimes I give in, sometimes I don't. It just depends on how motivated I am at the time. :-/ It can definitely be a huge obstacle! Good blog!
what i find as a very skinny always was underweight in my age range is that people who are insecure about their own pounds are easily willing to denounce my natural weight and try to force me to eat things like cheesecake. this is especially my grandmother and she is especially insecure about her weight :)
@LultimaNotte - my mom forces me to eat something whenever i come home. she gets extremely disappointed if I don't eat something and most of the stuff she cooks is not the healthiest , so i know what you're talking about
@RamblingAngels - Well they do say that misery loves company...
@RamblingAngels - Generally, those people have such a hard time losing weight, that they don't understand how you could maintain such a smaller weight without starving yourself - they may already feel like they are starving themselves just to stay at their current weight. I think, at heart, they are well-intentioned and just want you to be happy & healthy.