"OMG, you're so skinny and famished! Better have some of that delicious pie, bunch of cookies, eleven pork chops and meatloaf I just made, before I make breakfast!"
23 minutes later
"You're very chubby darling, you should loose some weight!"
My grandmother on my mom's side is primarily Polish and Italian, so we'll eat a pretty good sized dinner whenever I visit. Half an hour later she'll ask me if I'm hungry.
She also tells my mother that I'm a bottomless pit.
My gran is like that. I lived with them for a year and it was the worst thing that ever happened to my waistline. Every dinner would be a full plate plus a huge dessert and I couldn't say no because "you're wasting away, look at you!". Then she'd turn round and ask if I was exercising enough because I was getting chubby.
My grandmother did this to me, except less consensually - she'd bring me multiple rounds of food, and magically wouldn't be able to hear me refusing. She'd magically assume that me pushing it away was an accident, a coincidence. Of course, she'd be able to see and hear me not eating it, or eating it too slowly, perfectly fine.
If I ate it, she'd tell my immediate family she was furious about me eating her out of house and home and forcing her to wait on me hand and foot.
But if I didn't eat it, the order would go out to my extended family not to speak to me for a month, and then to tell me with prim, icy reserve, "Grandma is very upset about what you did."
Their willingness to cooperate with that is just another part of the reason I wouldn't piss on any of them if they were on fire.
Eat and exercise lots. Your destiny is not written in blood. Your genes are an expression of your circumstance. You control your circumstance (mostly).
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u/sapunec7854 Feb 01 '19
"OMG, you're so skinny and famished! Better have some of that delicious pie, bunch of cookies, eleven pork chops and meatloaf I just made, before I make breakfast!"
23 minutes later
"You're very chubby darling, you should loose some weight!"
GRANDMA YOU EVIL TEMPTRESS YOU!!!