What do you do if your parents keeping hinting about your weight?

Question

My weight is healthy for my height. I could put like 10-15 pounds on and still be healthy for my height. I've always been short and small. Lately, my parents have been making comments about my weight or butt. I told them it's not funny, and that they should stop but they won't. I go outside a lot. I go on morning walks, afternoon walks, and occasionally evening walks. I pull a lot of all-nighters, and there's nothing to snack on in my house, so I've lost a few pounds actually since school ended. But the comments keep coming. Like my dad said, "Well, I go out for exercise so my butt doesn't get big." And then he'll look at me. And I say, "What? I go outside every day for hours!" And he just says, "whatever". One night I told my mom it wasn't healthy to be eating midnight snacks, and she said, "Get your own weight in order before talking about other people" She's been trying to lose weight. I've stopped eating now because they make me feel fat. Idk what to do?

Answer 1

Tell them you are happy the way you are, and they are only trying to correct you because they see a reflection of them selves before they became over weight.

Next time when they hint or say something about your weight play it off as they said something realy funny, because you know its not true.

Answer 2

Wow, you've got some unedifying, brainwashed parents. I do too, unfortunitely. My mom is obsessed with dieting and my dad hints and openly mocks chubby people. My sister has become obsessed along with my mom, to please her. My brother is always asking if he is fat as well. They diet and their weight goes up and down. I used to do it with them, but then I took some classes on nutrition, eating disorders, and women's rights. I realized that this is all BS and gave it up. Now I'm FREE and I love my body. I haven't been on a scale in three years. Don't let them pull you into their vision of a "perfect" woman's body. You are great just the way you are. If you have a healthy weight, then they are just plain wrong. You should call them on it and do your own thing. Tell them to go pound sand.

Find a method exercise that you enjoy and do it every day. Build muscle. Eat what you want when you are actually hungry and stop before you are stuffed full. Try to eat a balanced diet, but don't limit yourself with a bunch or rules and diets. Diets don't work and are unhealthy in the long run. Only do things that are healthy and that you can do forever, for the rest of your life, like cutting fast food forever. 95 percent of dieters gain it all back in one year and 99 percent do in two years. Dieting is associated with weight gain over a long period of time.

If women like you learned to love their bodies, a billion dollar industry that cashes in on insecurities and making people feel like they are not good enough would collapse. Quite frankly, being a little fat isn't as unhealthy as being thin. Anybody who thinks diets or restricting food types is a good idea is uneducated about the human body. Short cuts do not work. Most of the weight you lose is water weight. For health, eat a balanced diet and exercise for the health and endorphins and forget about an ideal shape. The average age a girl starts dieting is 8. 1/3 women are on a diet at any given time. 4/5 US women are unsatisfied with their appearance. You are beautiful and your body has a set point weight that it wants to be. If you starve yourself, the body will fight back by lowering the metabolism to maintain it's ideal weight. Limit your tv viewing. 1/4 TV commercials send out a message about attractiveness in this brainwashed society that has been seeing images of beautiful skinny women and mocking chubby people. It's worse for women: look at the number of average or uglier guys on tv and in movies versus the number of women. 30 percent of women in a study rated their ideal shape and it turned out to be 20 percent underweight. Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz meet the clinical requirements for anorexia, and so do 25% of playboy centerfolds. If the flippin mannequins became real women, they wouln't be able to menstruate. Women finally get some rights, but we limit ourselves like this and our bodies are reduced to objects we inspect and criticise. Men decide to only value women for their looks and a thin, attractive wife symbolizes social status for them. Girls call each other fat as the greatest insult they can muster. When did fat become worse than cruel, stupid, dishonest, lazy or cowardly. When did "chubby" start to mean the last four of those things?
We are killing our daughters and wasting our lives trying to meet an ideal that blows. Unless you are considered obese, or have a BMI of over 25, don't worry about it. In the long run, who cares about ten vanity pounds? Love your body and your confidence will light up the room and give other women permission to love themselves too. Including your mom.