Thanks for the advice grandma
Hello everyone! For context, I (24f) am fat and have been for a long time.
This is a touchy subject for me because it’s the result of years of anxiety created by a pretty dysfunctional family and bullying both inside and outside said family which made me develop over eating as the only coping mechanism to deal with stress for a long time.
I am doing better now, both thanks to therapy and being diagnosed with pcos and taking treatment for it.
Speaking of therapy, it is thanks to it that I could clap back at my grandmother who has this annoying habit of “asking questions” or “giving advice” when she’s just straight up criticizing or even insulting someone: stuff like “why did you dress like that? It looks kinda off…..I’m just asking….” or “it’s nice that you like sweet perfumes, I don’t because I think they’re whorish, just my opinion tho”.
This time, she thought it was appropriate for her to say “you know, eating too much protein also makes you get fatter” at the annual Easter family dinner, when I dared taking a second slice of ham.
I didn’t get mad like I usually do. I just smiled and merely replied with “hopefully that will make me die sooner 🥰”.
She stopped talking to me after that and I could peacefully go back to my ham.