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[quote=Anonymous]OP you sound a generation behind. That's very much how my mom and her sisters and friends talk -- who's lost weight, who's gained, who's on a new diet or joined Weight Watchers or Tops or whatever, who has started a new walking routine with the express purpose of losing weight, etc.

Those women are all in their 70s and 80s. They've been worried about their weight for 80 YEARS. Their mother was obsessed with weight, too, and started teaching them that their bodies were wrong and needed to be controlled and manipulated as soon as they could comprehend language. It's really sad.

I am so glad to have grown up in a time where I learned to not listen to my mom, and to be able to raise my own daughter without that baggage. She gets to just like her body and find it useful and not spend her whole life trying to fix it. What a gift. Your sister is asking you to help give her daughter the same gift, and in the process maybe rescue all of you from this stupid obsession. Think on it.[/quote]

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