Daughter just told me my weight loss has alienated her from me.
I took MJ and have never looked or felt better. I’m confident, energetic, exercising and doing all this for me, but also so my kids (21,20,19) can confidently live their lives without worrying about a single, lonely mum sitting on the sofa. (Still single, def not lonely)
My beautiful clever feminist daughter came home from university unexpectedly today and I’ve no food in the house: I’m having the inside repainted, I’m just back from a holiday, etc etc. (There’s frozen pizzas, pasta, sauces, granola, milk. Just not yummy foods.)
Asked her for a hug goodnight, and she was huffy, so I asked what was wrong. She said ‘Have you ever thought how your weight loss makes ME feel? Apparently, I now - by having lost weight - make her feel fat and ugly. I was gobsmacked. She does stress eat, but I would never pass comment on her body.
There’s more layers to this, obviously, and after a couple minutes of talking about it, she wanted to stop. I asked that she have more conversations with me, so we can figure it out. But the bottom line is that she feels like my weight loss has made her…want to be less connected to me.
WTAF.