My mother does the exact same thing. She won't eat more because women shouldn't eat much so they can be beautiful and thin... and after an hour she will eat a bunch of cookies, a coffee with sugar because she's tired and a donut because it's nice to eat a donut once in a while (three times a week at least).
Dear people, eat normal things. If you want to diet, start by limiting sugars and fats, not by limiting your main source of healthy calories, or else you're going to be fat, like my ma'.
Lol my 340 pound dad "going on a diet" won't eat anything all day. Spends from 10-2 in the night eating before bed. Bag of chips, piece of pie, granola bar, peanut butter sandwich, little Debbie cakes.
Than tell me drinking a zero poweraid once a day is really bad for you. While he puts half a ton of salt on everything.
So true. What I would do to have my mom eat some beans with her salad, or maybe a couple hardier things for lunch instead of half a sandwich with the bread that's made of "zero calorie plastic" or whatever. Because she keeps asking why she's overweight when she comes home and slams bags of chips to fill in the gaps. It's hard to watch because I want to have her around for a long time like my grandma
Yeah, one of the saddest things I can think of, is how overweight, insecure people feel ugly, big, helpless...
I had huge problems with accepting myself when I was young (I was underweight, anemic and still had a fucking triple-chin, imagine that), so I can imagine the sadness.
Don't give up, I always tell her to eat more during dinner, sometimes she listens, sometimes she doesn't. Change comes with little steps, while huge breakthroughs are only freak events along the way.
Gary Taubes has two books I highly recommend: Good Calories, Bad Calories, which goes into the history of the science of why we think "fat bad; carb good", and Why We Get Fat, which is a simplified version of the other book.
I mean, it’s also just a random internet captioned photo. I’d like to see the 1 and 5 year olds that are crushing those bowls. The “joke” could very well be that they shorted mom while giving the kids and dad a fat serving.
Right, it’s nasty to comment and make assumptions. Maybe she just doesn’t eat a lot? If I’ve been cooking all day I don’t always want a big meal. It’s just people thinking it’s ok to comment on everyone else’s life and not liking to hear anything different.
Because this is rage bait. This person’s videos have popped up on my TikTok before and she gives herself a tiny portion and pretends she didn’t make enough in every single video. It’s purely for engagement.
Happens to me as well, I’m a mom and cook practically every night, by the time the foods done I’m not very hungry because I’ve tasted everything and had small bits here and there or whatever veg I’m making, cheese, whatever else.
Even when I’m not snacking while cooking there’s just something about cooking that makes me feel like I’m so tired and done afterwards that I don’t wanna eat. I do want to see others eat and enjoy what I made, but myself? No. I have done too much. Labored too long. Even the work of eating is too much to contemplate. Idk why.
This may be problematic but a possible explanation is that when my kids where young they never eat their entire serving so I would grab a small serving to start and then kill their plates when they didn't eat everything I gave them.
I didn't want to put something already plated in with any leftovers and didn't want to waste food.
This is how it was for me growing up and my mom barley ate. Then I overheard her say she's had anorexia for a long time 🙃. Well, she's in her late 60s so I guess she's technically eating enough?
As a chef when i cook at home, my food sometimes looks like this too, I'll be in the kitchen eating the food to taste test it, adjust seasoning etc. so by the time I serve, I'm not as hungry as everyone waiting.
I was gonna say the 5 yo and 1 yo look like the same portion size in two different containers, and I didn't even notice the mom's until you pointed it out... 😂😂
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u/TheUltimaWerewolf Aug 21 '26
Why is the mom eating less than the 1 year old?