Do your parents worry about your eating habits?

Even if they're good ones?

My parents do. They're scared that I'm going to take the whole "dieting" thing too far. I'm really not, and this is a lifestyle, not a "dieting" thing. I measure my food, and they think I'm being obsessive. I come out of my room after a workout and lookin' like a sweaty mess and they think I'm working too hard. Mind you, my dad's sister had bulimia and was pretty loco, so I understand where they're coming from. Sometimes it just bugs the hell out of me that they don't have confidence in my ability to make the right choices. I just want to shout "I am not your sisters! I am your daughter, Kaylee! I make excellent choices because YOU taught me to do that! I have a good head on my shoulder, please trust me!"

But you know, we'll work this out eventually, I'm sure. It's frustrating for me sometimes, and kind of embarrassing to dig out those measuring cups when no one else is doing it too. However, since I've been measuring food, I've become fuller sooner with the right serving size on my plate and I'm learning how much each cup is visually. One day I'll know it by heart and won't need measuring cups. That'll be a neat skill, no?

[Note: not really asking for advice. Just want to see what other people's situations are like. :D I can handle this problemo just fine.]

So.. is there anyone else out there in a similar situation as I am in?

How did/do your parents treat your change of food choices, portions, and such?

If anyone has already gotten through to their parents before, what did you do to make them realize that you can handle yourself? How long did it take for them to trust you?

[Sorry if this sort o' thing was already posted. @_@]

I wouldn't say they're worried, they just tease me about it & make like those underhand comments that aren't obviously offensive but are still offensive. & by "they," I mean mainly my mom & brother.

My dad's totally on board & keeps saying how great it is that I'm eating healthy & all. It's weird because my dad & I have a terrible relationship, but he basically backs me up as far as this is concerned.

ugh i know how you feel, my parents wont shut up about the way im eating.

they even buy cookies and other crap to try and lure me to the food. they feel like i've become "too skinny" and wont leave me alone. i used to have an obsession with bread but lately i've been avoiding it (eating only small amounts) and when my dad saw me eating dinner without bread he flipped out on me when i refused to eat it. so we havent really talked much since than.

but its really annoying so i can deffinently relate to you.

Oh yeah, My parents are convinced I 'don't eat enough' or that my choices in food 'aren't healthy'. I eat more than the reccomended amount of fruits and veggies, I stop after one serving of food, I avoid bread/pasta like it was the Devil himself and have more or less obliterated refined sugar from my diet (save for the occassional sprinkle of splenda here and there).

But my family is CONVINCED I'm not eating enough. They try to make me eat sugar snacks or meat or the like and I refuse. I wish they'd just support me in my attemptto lose weight :(

My mom and my siblings freak out. My brother and sister are always WHO THE HECK MEASURED THIER PEANUT BUTTER!! my sister consistently yells at me for caring about what I eat, its not like she doesn't do the same...my mom is always failing at diets and that makes me sad...but my dad also encourages it he always tells me to care of myself because sooner or later I'll blow up when I'm old ( a lot of my family members are overwieght).

It really does get annoying because for whatever reason, eating healthily and taking care of myself brings me a lot of unwanted attention...

Amazingly, I've managed to hide my weight-loss efforts from my brother and my dad.  My mom's supportive of me, however, which makes things so much easier!

I do remember though, one day two years ago (when I really didn't know much about how to lose weight at all) I gave healthy eating a try for a day.  My family and I went out to lunch with my aunt and uncle and family, and for my entree I ordered a little appetizer salad and I didn't have any bread or any dessert.  When I declined to have a bite from the desserts my brother looked at me and made a really nasty comment about 'huh, watching your figure now, are you?' and I felt terrible. 

Then again, I think he's just resistant to change... when I started running each morning he'd give me dirty looks like 'stop that, you don't need to exercise' which is completely ludicrous... and actually, I remember when he first saw my senior-class picture he said 'it doesn't look much like you' when he was asked to comment on it by my mom.  Apparently I wore some makeup, so I was no longer myself.

Consequently, I don't really feel the need to key him into my weight-loss plans.  And my dad supports my exercise, which is nice, since he bought me a gym membership, but he doesn't know about the calorie counting.  Lol - he caught me measuring some food the other day and asked me if I was making something with a recipe or if they (the measuring cups) were just handier than getting a bowl.  He didn't actually suspect I was measuring them for the calorie content!

Silly.  But yeah, that's my story.

not my dad, but my mom worries. she literally thinks i have anorexia, which is nowhere near the case, ha. she seems to think it's weird that i want to eat healthily and that i love exercise. so then i feel the need to like stuff my face around my mom, hah. it's a pretty weird situation to be in.

Oh they sure do. Well, at least my mom and grandma. Mom does like the fact that I like to eat salad and veggies nowadays, but the fact that I wont eat bread, pasta or potatoes makes her go bananas. A few times she has started to lecture me about anorexia. But I-HAVE-NO-ED!

My grandma keeps making pancakes for me to eat, and if I refuse, she flips out. And she keeps  buying her shelves full of baked goods, ice cream and stuff, then offers them to me...

Both she and my mom are obese (and so was I back in April - not anymore! :D), and my grandma even got motivated to start eating healthy too in the beginning of my weight loss journey, but she always ends up eating one pack of ice cream every night and a few donuts a day... I think its a bit sad...

But my dad, who has never been overweight (even when he's always eating chocolate!), is very happy about my change, and keeps encouraging me! :)

I started eating healthier for 2 reasons. 1) I am a competitive high school athlete and needed to properly take care of my body and 2) my parents eat like crap and I decided to take matters into my own hands to show them how they needed to eat.

I lost weight drastically, too much too soon, so they were concerned, but I get plenty of calories and all of the nutrients my body needs. My parents are starting to warm up to the idea of changing their eating habits, but I know it's difficult for them since they grew up eating very differently (my mom is a baker's household and a heavy german cook and my dad in a no rules family with a lot of canned foods).

We are definitely a big sweet tooth family so we indulge in a treat every night, but we work on making healthier choices and portion control.