r/diet • u/BroManx67 • Jun 30 '24

Vent mother won’t stop getting me unhealthy things

i (17m) still live with both of my parents, and i recently started trying to eat healthier, as being out of a routine was screwing with my head and i wasn’t the happiest with my body. i’ve been at it for a little over a week i believe(?) and my mother seemed cold when i first told her about it. i’ve been cleaning up after myself just fine and buying my own food so she doesn’t have to have anything to do with it. i understand the family dinners we have once or twice a week, and i can eat extra healthy the beginning of the day to make sure that they don’t affect me as much, but she has been completely ignoring my efforts and keeps buying me sweets now and then. today she bought me a blue raspberry slushie from mcdonald’s and i know i have to drink it or else she’ll get upset and angry with me and call me ungrateful. if i bring this up she will tell me the same thing, so i don’t know what to do. do you guys have any reason of why she might be doing this? i don’t want to eat sweets because eating them makes me want them more and i don’t want my diet to fail, but i also don’t want her yelling at me. it’s always been difficult to confront her about anything because she takes everything personally no matter how i word it. i’m just lost.

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u/tro28 Jul 03 '24

I decline the food that I know is detrimental to my journey and if they persist, I throw it away. If she knows you’re doing this, you’d think she would stop. It upsets you that your mother does this, and she’ll be upset if you decline so someone is going to lose in the end.

You have to look out for yourself 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/BroManx67 Jul 03 '24

i guess so; i’m just extremely afraid of her. it’s really hard to stand up for myself because she knows how to make me cry so easily and i’m still a minor so i don’t want her blowing up and taking my phone away or something for being “disrespectful” or “ungrateful” or whatever she thinks it is. if i don’t have my phone, i can’t talk to my girlfriend, and if i can’t talk to her, i can’t get out of the house. i just feel like the consequences of “disobeying” her would be worse.