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[liaku]

you know, it's an incredibly lucky thing that i get angry instead of depressed whenever my mother tells me i'm fat because i hear it every fucking day

i'd be a bulimic mess otherwise

$10 says the diet she put me on as a baby stunted my ability to give a shit about my weight

Comments

[pargoletta]

She put you on a diet as a baby? That is fourteen different kinds of wrong. Grrrrrrrr at your mom for doing that!

[liaku]

Yeah, apparently I was a fat baby. I have never seen a not fat baby, so beats me what she thought I was supposed to look like. Seems like I ended up fine though.

[cricep]

I was put on a baby diet too - by a doctor. Apparently my mom had been routinely putting chocolate milk in my bottle (I was a very happy baby!). But the pediatrician was like uhhhhh no and she had to stop. :o(

I think that's why I love chocolate milk so much, even now. It was literally the first food I lived on.

[motodraconis]

Snort! Babies need their fat - it's their growing reserve. I had knock-knees (rickets!) as a toddler, in spite of being fed a very healthy diet of fresh fruit, veg and meat - I suspect because my weight-obsessed mum wasn't giving me enough calories in order to keep me thin. Snort!

[liaku]

Oh wow, I'm glad it was just as a toddler! It's crazy how much people worry about weight really. I feel like as long as you're healthy, it's all good, right? Especially for kids! (Although there is that miserable preteen stage where everyone's shallow and bitchy...)

[the_aberrant]

She put you on a diet as a baby? And you're not fat. ]:
I don't think anybody should just drop that on somebody. Should be more of "come for a run with me" or "insertfood is probably healthier for you".

[liaku]

lol I think it's partially that we have literally nothing worth talking about to each other, so over meals, for some reason instead of discussing the weather she decides to talk about my weight. Which is a fine weight.

She doesn't want me healthier though. She thinks I'm not ladylike enough, so she legit wants me less muscled and more waifish.

[summersdream]

or just wait until her metabolism catches up to her and she gets a bit older... my weight-obsessed mom is now too busy freaking out about her own weight to get onto me about mine. It's kind of nice, to be honest. Only I feel guilty about being relieved by that... *sigh* And now I think I'm way worse to myself lately than she was. Ugh, life, why do you screw us up?

Baby diets though???! Babies are supposed to be chubby! Unless she was feeding you any time you cried, which is bad. My cousin got awarded Fattest Baby In The County cause of that childcare method. :/ But still. Shady parenting is shady! *offers you hugs and cookies*

[liaku]

She's already plump/matronly, which I call fat on her because I'm petty like that, even though I don't actually think that counts as fat at all. She apparently never put off her pregnancy weight with me, so that probably factors into how she wants me thinner.

lol as a baby, I basically never cried--not like that anyway. I did throw shit around and scream at people just for fun though, so I was a horrible child in my own way! :)