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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I am in the same situation as you.  My MIL is obese AND she apparently is also bipolar (although I have not really seen evidence of this ever).  I have to say (and if I am flamed for this it is well-deserved and I know I am being terrible) that I really resent my MIL for this issue.  I resent the sadness she is putting my husband in by ruining her own health.  I resent that she can't regularly come and visit (she lives abroad) and play with her grandchild, or babysit her once in awhile.   I know intellectually that it is NONE OF MY BUSINESS how my MIL chooses to live her life, and I know that it is SO HARD to lose weight, and yet I still resent that she continues to consume gallons of pepsi and junk food everyday and is not willing to even try to get back on track.  I resent that we will probably be on the hook and help pay for her inevitable health problems.  I resent that she is sixty-something and she and my FIL live like people in their eighties.  The sad part is that I really like her, my MIL is SOOO sweet and is such a kind person, and I have all these feelings simmering under the surface.

Ahhh.  It was nice to let that out.  Back to repressing my emotions and pretending like nothing is wrong.[/quote]

Totally parenthetical, but a lot of the older antipsychotics prescribed to people with bipolar disorder have serious -- and lasting -- weight gain as a side effect. Like, to the point that people who switched to different medication ten years ago still can't lose the pounds. Apparently they really change your metabolism. I only found this out because I was really concerned about the obesity that seems to run in my family and it turns out it's just a side effect of the crazy that runs in my family.

Of course, this may not apply to your MIL at all. I just saw "obese" and "bipolar" and thought I'd share, because I didn't know.[/quote]

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