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[quote=Anonymous]PP with two recent examples of grandmothers being weird about food:

Three of my mom’s grandchildren (and 2 are my DC) have anaphylactic nut allergies. My mom recently complained that her other grandchild with multiple nut allergies “takes forever to decide what to order in a restaurant or even when he visits my house because ‘he has to read all of the ingredients’ “. She was beyond exasperated and annoyed with him.

I interrupted her to explain for the 1000th time that GC MUST carefully study each ingredient to protect his life!” Ugh.

My MIL begins any large meal by telling us all that she’s been saving her calories/fasted/dieted so that she can “enjoy” and indulge. One, I don’t care and two, she says this in front of her 3 teen granddaughters - way to model disordered eating.

I once broke down and sobbed when MIL complimented me on my postpartum weight loss: I had PPD and anxiety that caused me to become very ill and subsequently, I was having trouble eating and lost weight too quickly. So, in the middle of crying I explained that yes, I had lost weight but my anxiety made it so that I truly couldn’t eat properly and lost my appetite. Her comforting words, “you’re so lucky! My stress response is to eat and get fat.” 
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