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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 12:54:01 GMT -5
you know it'd b great if like........ my parents could like.............. buy decent food so i don't have to????? lmao
but noooOooOOooo i'm like "lol okay i'm trying to lose weight" and my mother is like "ohohofhsadhf but you're PERFECT the way you are! you don't need to lose weight :)" as she continues shoving junk food in my direction.
lol anyone else in this situation where their families won't support their desires to be healthy??????? and they wonder why i don't like associating with them lol.
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Post by Aku on Aug 11, 2017 13:09:05 GMT -5
I tried to go vegetarian one year and it just didn't work out because my family wasn't supportive of it. I would love to try again but it'll be a long while until I can.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 13:12:13 GMT -5
I tried to go vegetarian one year and it just didn't work out because my family wasn't supportive of it. I would love to try again but it'll be a long while until I can. and that's just bs....... it's not like you'd be forcing them to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. really, the biggest issue for them would be accommodating you for meals, but even then, they could have bought you vegetarian food/ingredients (rather than non-vegetarian food) and you could have made stuff for yourself. were they just like morally opposed (lol) to it? some people are really against the principals of not eating meat for some reason idk
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 13:15:21 GMT -5
I tried to go vegetarian one year and it just didn't work out because my family wasn't supportive of it. I would love to try again but it'll be a long while until I can. if they're the ones purchasing the food and you wouldn't be cooking it for yourself, i honestly get their POV. if you're the only one doing it AND you wouldn't be cooking in for yourself, it would be more money and more time invested in one person rather than the group. so. my household's rule is if you want to go vegetarian, you have to at least cook everything for yourself.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 13:16:08 GMT -5
if it's an issue of money (fresher, healthier foods tend to be more expensive) i get your family here but if it's not that's not cool
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Post by Aku on Aug 11, 2017 13:34:25 GMT -5
I tried to go vegetarian one year and it just didn't work out because my family wasn't supportive of it. I would love to try again but it'll be a long while until I can. and that's just bs....... it's not like you'd be forcing them to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle. really, the biggest issue for them would be accommodating you for meals, but even then, they could have bought you vegetarian food/ingredients (rather than non-vegetarian food) and you could have made stuff for yourself. were they just like morally opposed (lol) to it? some people are really against the principals of not eating meat for some reason idk They were morally opposed to it. At the time we were able to afford it as well so idk why they weren't willing because I did state several times that meat made me feel nauseous (there are still some meats I outright refuse to even handle) so I wasn't really eating meats in the first place. Before I became a vegetarian, my diet was really unhealthy because I was eating everything the same except taking out my meats and I figured it would just be healthier to take on a vegetarian diet. It was kind of upsetting as another friend who was also vegetarian, the only one in her family, and they supported her and even helped make vegetarian dishes with her at times.
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Post by Saint Ambrosef on Aug 11, 2017 13:36:45 GMT -5
kinda similar situation but not quite. my mom never seems to go grocery shopping or cook dinner anymore (there's a reason for the cooking part) which kinda falls upon me then to do it. problem is that she's almost never home when i need to go to the store, so i gotta use my own card, and she says they'll reimburse me for what i spend but they havent yet and its sucked like 500 out of my account over the last 6 months.
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Post by Aku on Aug 11, 2017 13:39:42 GMT -5
I tried to go vegetarian one year and it just didn't work out because my family wasn't supportive of it. I would love to try again but it'll be a long while until I can. if they're the ones purchasing the food and you wouldn't be cooking it for yourself, i honestly get their POV. if you're the only one doing it AND you wouldn't be cooking in for yourself, it would be more money and more time invested in one person rather than the group. so. my household's rule is if you want to go vegetarian, you have to at least cook everything for yourself. They were buying the food as I was 16 and without a job at the time, but, I will admit while I was hesitant to start cooking for myself (using some cooking stuff has always intimidated me for some weird reason), I was still willing to learn how to cook my foo. I just needed someone to kind of help me out at first and nobody was willing to help out.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 13:44:07 GMT -5
if they're the ones purchasing the food and you wouldn't be cooking it for yourself, i honestly get their POV. if you're the only one doing it AND you wouldn't be cooking in for yourself, it would be more money and more time invested in one person rather than the group. so. my household's rule is if you want to go vegetarian, you have to at least cook everything for yourself. They were buying the food as I was 16 and without a job at the time, but, I will admit while I was hesitant to start cooking for myself (using some cooking stuff has always intimidated me for some weird reason), I was still willing to learn how to cook my foo. I just needed someone to kind of help me out at first and nobody was willing to help out. ok well i don't blame them if they don't have the time. if you're 16 you can cook on your own
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Post by Sanders on Aug 11, 2017 13:44:51 GMT -5
Same
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Post by Aku on Aug 11, 2017 14:16:07 GMT -5
They were buying the food as I was 16 and without a job at the time, but, I will admit while I was hesitant to start cooking for myself (using some cooking stuff has always intimidated me for some weird reason), I was still willing to learn how to cook my foo. I just needed someone to kind of help me out at first and nobody was willing to help out. ok well i don't blame them if they don't have the time. if you're 16 you can cook on your own I guess I should have been more clear about this. They did have the time to help me but weren't willing to. My age has nothing to do on if I could cook on my own or not as cooking is something that's taught and learned not something you learn when you magically hit a number. I would have highly preferred someone to help guide me at least the first few times while I got the hang of everything since the last time I tried to cook on my own I almost burned the house down.
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Post by Ferntail on Aug 11, 2017 14:21:11 GMT -5
Your mom seems to be using the idea "you are perfect the way you are" in order to persuade you to keep eating junk food so she can spend less on groceries. It seems manipulative. Plus she doesn't seem to be listening to you at all. It's great to appreciate your body image however you look; but when health is jeopardized and the individual wants to fix it, that should be respected.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 14:28:53 GMT -5
Your mom seems to be using the idea "you are perfect the way you are" in order to persuade you to keep eating junk food so she can spend less on groceries. It seems manipulative. Plus she doesn't seem to be listening to you at all. It's great to appreciate your body image however you look; but when health is jeopardized and the individual wants to fix it, that should be respected. my entire family has varying degrees of weight issues and my mom is miserable at her current weight (and all of her diets fall through), so she probably wants me to be comfortable with how i am? i'm not though, and she doesn't get that i see every single compliment that she gives me as utterly wrong. she has this tendency to minimize my faults and failures in most aspects of my life, which i suppose would be a good thing if i believed her. also i get her being biased about my appearance, but jfc, just because i'm skinnier than her does not make me healthy nor happy with my body. idk i'm just dying to move out and get the hell away from the trainwreck that is my family.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2017 14:36:11 GMT -5
if it's an issue of money (fresher, healthier foods tend to be more expensive) i get your family here but if it's not that's not cool money isn't really an issue tbh my family spends so much money on fast food already which really does add up. and our freezer is filled to the brim with t.v. dinners so even when they'd offer to buy me things such as chicken breasts for meals, they'd remember that there's literally no room and say no. i'm planning on getting a mini fridge with freezer eventually because while i keep my non-frozen goods in my room already, i have to deal with hiding perishables in the fridge and freezer.
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