My dad bought me a scale! UPDATE!!

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Anonymous wrote:I actually would really like a scale. How is this different than him giving you a yoga mat, running shoes or a diet book for a gift?

Why are you being so passive aggressive? Yell back if you don’t like his gift. A thumbs up obviously isn’t getting your message across.

There is a difference between giving an avid runner a pair of their favorite shoes or a person who loves yoga a new mat or a person who is vocally doing Keto a Keto diet book is one thing. It is, of course, fine to give someone a scale who has actually said that they want a scale.

Randomly giving a person a diet book out of the blue or a scale or a diet food service....is usually not a great idea.

If you can not see the difference between these things you should stick to general gift cards.

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Weird troll

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You probably have more than 15lbs to lose. My FIL buys scales for everyone. He likes them and it has nothing to do with weight. He buys it more for weighing luggage when traveling. I don't understand why is this giving you so much anxiety?

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Anonymous wrote:You probably have more than 15lbs to lose. My FIL buys scales for everyone. He likes them and it has nothing to do with weight. He buys it more for weighing luggage when traveling. I don't understand why is this giving you so much anxiety?

Uhhh, maybe because Op's dad has never given anyone a scale before and has only done so since Op gained a little weight? Amazing coincidence?

But I'm going to guess that you still fit into your HS prom dress so it wouldn't occur to you to feel a bit judged by a gift like that? Imagine if your FIL randomly sent you, and only you, a case of Ensure shakes....still o.k.?

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Send him a box of Depends.

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Anonymous wrote:My brother in law is fat and wants to lose weight. I ask him what he plans to do about it and oh yeah does he own a scale? No

Do you also ask him if he knows how to use a scale? Maybe you need to show him how?

He is thin, obsessed with his weight, and always has been this way..,

—— OP

Based on this alone, I wouldn't have been at all surprised to get a scale. And no way he hasn't commented to your weight/what you eat in your 50+ years walking the earth. People like that can't help themselves, literally.

Agree. It's more a comment on him than on you, OP. If he is as you describe, he is obsessed and cannot understand other people, especially his family are not similarly obsessed. His obsession leads him to assume that this would be a useful and desirable gift, because you will feel the same obsession, not as a commentary about your weight. Think of it like a person with OCD who has to walk around your house straightening up all of the knick knacks, photos and decorations on your tables and end tables or a person with OCD who walks around wiping all surfaces down with Lysol wipes over and over, to the point of getting raw, chapped hands.

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Anonymous wrote:If "you" say could lose 15 lbs that means its probably at leat 20.

Go ahead though, be "healthy at every size."

And blame your father whose motives are probably pure but whose tactics and communication skills are, like all dads, perhaps a bit wanting.

Just because you are seriously raising your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer doesn't mean you will get any of those. Roll those dice!

DP It is none of his business. Op is 51 years old. Give it a rest fat shamers! We are all going to die, even skinny bitches like you and the dad.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually would really like a scale. How is this different than him giving you a yoga mat, running shoes or a diet book for a gift?

Why are you being so passive aggressive? Yell back if you don’t like his gift. A thumbs up obviously isn’t getting your message across.

DP A scale doesn't help the person get healthy like a yoga mat or running shoes. To me, Dad is the passive aggressive one. Sounds like dad doesn't care how she gets thin. starvation is ok as long as you are thin! I'm sure Dad has communicated that he is disappointed in op and as someone who has a family member do the same thing it gets old and sometimes you do get tired of talking about it. You just want them to my their own business. Especially as a middle aged women!

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand. If it is gift wrapped, then how do you know what it is?

He told me when he gave it to me.

—- OP

Are you sure it's a scale of you haven't unwrapped it? Maybe that's how he knows?

It’s a scale! I tore off a piece of paper and I peeked inside.

Amazon packages don't come in paper.

And I work for Amazon HQ. There is literally zero way for him to know whether or not you opened it. You are lying. Are you trolling or just making this shit up... and why? This is the oddest thing to make up?

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Can we get back the the most important thing here?

How would Amazon know if you opened it or not and let him know that?

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Anonymous wrote:You probably have more than 15lbs to lose. My FIL buys scales for everyone. He likes them and it has nothing to do with weight. He buys it more for weighing luggage when traveling. I don't understand why is this giving you so much anxiety?

Uhhh, maybe because Op's dad has never given anyone a scale before and has only done so since Op gained a little weight? Amazing coincidence?

But I'm going to guess that you still fit into your HS prom dress so it wouldn't occur to you to feel a bit judged by a gift like that? Imagine if your FIL randomly sent you, and only you, a case of Ensure shakes....still o.k.?

That would be weird, everyone who knows me knows I hate milk. Anyway, I have always been tackle the issue on the head kind of person. If that is what is going on I would have called my father and told him that he is to mind his own business when it comes to my weight. I have always been like that. So, OP why don't you tell your dad to mind his own business?

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Anonymous wrote:Can we get back the the most important thing here?

How would Amazon know if you opened it or not and let him know that?

DP, as that pp above posted, no way to know. What a dumb thing to post.

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You are 51 years old OP. Grow up and call your dad and tell him that he can shove his scale where the sun doesn't shine. 51!!! WTF!

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Maybe give it back to him on Christmas?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand. If it is gift wrapped, then how do you know what it is?

He told me when he gave it to me.

—- OP

Are you sure it's a scale of you haven't unwrapped it? Maybe that's how he knows?

It’s a scale! I tore off a piece of paper and I peeked inside.

Amazon packages don't come in paper.

And I work for Amazon HQ. There is literally zero way for him to know whether or not you opened it. You are lying. Are you trolling or just making this shit up... and why? This is the oddest thing to make up?

I too think OP is a troll.