Help With Teenager Who Can’t Get Good Food?

[laurenistrying12]

Hi. I am living in my parents house as a minor and I have been on the brink of obese my entire life, as my parents have been feeding me unhealthy food in large amounts because it made us all happy. I want to change my body. I want the teasing to stop, I want more energy, and I just want to live a better life. But my issue is my parents get mad whenever I try to prep my own meals since “thats what we’re here to do for you for now” and call me entitled if I dont want to eat the garbage they eat (fast food and unhealthy fats galore and I wish I was exaggerating). What should I do? Also, I do exercise a LOT, but thats just not enough. Thanks for any help.

 

[Charlotta]

Hey, I think it is great, that you try to be healthy even when your family is anything but a help! I can't understand why your parents wouldn't try to help you being healthy I can only imagine that maybe your parents want you to still need them? Also, sometimes, I think, parents down really want their kids to grow, but I don't hope that yours are that way. Anyway, I think you must try to be hard. How old are you? At some point you must start making your own decisions and your parents won't like everyone, and I think some fights are worth fighting. What could be the worst that can happen if you start preparing your own food? (I'm from Germany and I hope that you can understand everything I wrote

 

[HealthWarrior]

That's a tough one. Do you have friends or family you can stay with instead? Temporarily of course. It's just that maybe if you took a physical stand (separating yourself) then they would realize how serious you are about this issue, and treat you with more respect. Otherwise maybe you could offer to do dinner for everyone one night of the week? Then, you could cook up a storm and blow them away with the better food they could be eating?

 

[Northern_Dreamer]

I am a 35-year-old woman with 3 kids who has had to move in with her mother post-divorce and I pay her rent and help with bills but with all the expenses I've been having (including lawyer bills) I often have nothing left for groceries. My mom is happy to feed us but 90% of what she buys is junk. She spends so much money on store-made bakery stuff, sausages, chips, bacon every morning, ice cream, potatoes, etc. She doesn't like many vegetables and barely buys any. Corn counts as a vegetable in her mind every second day. I have to walk a really thin line at being appreciative but at the same time so frustrated with the food. Any time I try to get her to get healthier food it turns into a fight because to her its like I'm criticizing her way of life. She and many of my family are obese and I wish they'd embrace healthier eating. And because I lack grocery money I have to eat it too often.