I think it's really thoughtless of them too. I have a similar relationship with my mother (a woman who maintained a weight of 7st for 20 years because she lived off diet pills and cup-a-soup, a Mother who couldn't physically breast feed her children because she was so malnourished*) and she, at the same time as berating me for being fat, would meet up with me and insist we go for some cake!
*I must point out that I have a very good relationship with my Mother in regards to everything but weight!!
my relationship with my mum and weight is the exact opposite. she's 5ft 2, over 22st, bipolar, suffers from fibromyalgia and could do with losing weight for that alone, had a heart attack this year, suffers from angina and yet still 1. wont lose weight and 2. wont stop smoking 3. wont take exercise (ok, i admit the exercise is hard because of the FM, but it IS possible during her good times and she just does nothing when she's good, but complains when she's bad).
basically my mum is of the opinion that she doesn't need to change, and therefore I shouldn't feel I need to. she doesn't seem to get that I'm not doing this for cosmetic reasons. I want my flipping hip to stop hurting as much. I want to be able to run after my daughter. I want my bras to not cost as much and to not break so often (and yes they're the right size, they just can't cope).
my mum makes me worry about my sister. she's 14, way heavier than me, she's a size 22-24 and about 5ft 7. mum thinks Loo walking to school will help. ok, yeah, it will...a little. but you picking her up on your way home from work WONT! nor will you continuing to feed her what you do!
saying "oh, one such and such wont hurt"... yes it will. I didn't tell mu I'm doing SW until I had hit the half stone mark.
I've started having to refuse to eat at mum's because she doesn't get that yeah, her pasta sauce has tomatoes in it, but it is also floating with fat! no, I don't want roasties thanks, you coated them in goosefat.
hell, it's taken her 2 years to remember the lactose intollerance and stop offering me butter lol.
she frustrates me so much, I am so terrified she wont live to see sophie hit her teens. I worry for sophie, she'll be destroyed if/when her gran dies, and honestly I think my mum's heading for the grave pretty quickly the rate she's going at.
also, I suffer from exactly the same thyroid condition she keeps blaming for her inability to lose weight. she wont blame the amount of food she eats or the lack of exercise. I have the same thing, I am losing weight, slowly, but I AM losing because I have made a change.
wow. sorry. that turned into a total rant lol! I love my mum, that's why she frustrates me so much!