[lipstixgal]

Originally Posted by Andrew, Jr.

Lipstickgal,

My parents, esp. my mother, was verbally abusive towards me about my weight growing up. I was very thin and extremely muscular. I was out playing football, tennis, lifting weights, and so on. I weighted maybe 100 pounds soaking wet in high school. Everything else was muscle. She was embarassed by me. I was the exact opposite of her ideals of what it was to be a girl/woman/female gender.

If I talk with them today, the entire conversation is just about my weight. Even if I tell them it is not a subject up for debate or discussion, they ignore it. It wasn't until a friend of theirs was in their home, and walked in on a heated conversation of ours, it would have still gone on. I no longer talk with them at all. It is how I survive mentally. As parents, they should be ashamed of themselves. But they are too mentally ill to even know it.

Andrew

Oh Andrew that's too bad that you can't even talk with your own parents. My parents were mentally ill too I think. MY mom passes away about 4 years ago and now I can be who I want to be fat or thin. Of course I prefer being thinner but that is not always my choice. I have hypothyroidism which making lose weight even harder. So does my dog and he is overweight and on a diet!!! Low fat food for him. Just be who you are and know that you are the best person you could be...