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[quote=Anonymous]This is a vent too.

My MIL is finally happy with her weight, after losing ~15 lbs. she spent decades on every kind of diet nutritional trend and not losing weight. I’m pleased as she’s also exercising more and is pretty active, which is great.

FIL has always followed along and eats and exercises per her structure.

They do IF and no longer eat between 6pm and noon the next day. It makes meal planning tricky when we visit them or they us.

For visits we just agreed we need to eat differently. She insists that is fine. So, in the morning, my kids make and eat breakfast (toast or cereal or eggs). FIL, who is counting the seconds until it’s time to eat, gets cranky and MIL’s sipping coffee or tea and her stomach is rumbling. If he gets vocal, MIL will acquiesce and say FIL just go ahead and eat. This drives my husband up a wall.

Then for meals MIL prepares, everyone gets an exact and proper serving. MIL’s about 5 feet on a good day, and everyone else is 5’’10” - 6’4” all eating 1 cup of soup, 2 slices of turkey with one slice of wheat bread. The kids ask for seconds. And, we just always plan form extra snacks and get food out when she cooks

My older teens perceive it as disordered eating and controlling.

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