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[quote=Anonymous]SIL lives several hrs away but we see them 4-5 times a year. Good relationship. My brother in law, her DH, runs his own business and works 60 hour weeks.  I've known her for 25 years. They got married 20 years ago and she stopped working right away.  They had one child who is now am independent high schooler.  She is a very lovely lady but a little lazy I think.  She watches daytime TV all day and eats junk food.  She doesn't cook ever. Her idea of cooking is popping frozen chicken tenders in the oven.  She only eats processed foods like sugar cereal soda and frozen pizza frozen Tyson's strips.  She has been eating this way her whole life and finds normal home food or even normal restaurant food unappetizig and veg is gross.  In her early 20s she was slender. In her late 20s she was plump. In her 30s she was fat. In her 40s she is obese.  She has HT, diabetes, ibs etc now. But despite all the health problems that are here now, she still won't change at all.  No matter what doctors say.  Or DH.  DH is fed up coming home to frozen pizza or takeout fried food. He had sit down with her and said he wants home cooked basic food on table every night.  He'd be really happy with pasta jarred sauce and side salad. He works crazy hours and Saud he'd cook himself if he could but he can't.  His health problems are catching up too.  Gout, hypertension, prediabetes etc.  He said he can't go on doing this.  My DH and I are relatively healthy eat home cooked food, meal plan and we both work.  He says he's at his wits end. Should we have an intervention with her?  We love them both but have been reluctant to get involved in this aspect.  BC she's never asked us for that type of advice.  They are both educated people living in a wealthy suburb of NYC with plenty of $ for good healthy food.  Thoughts?[/quote]

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