I am my mother’s daughter…….
As we travel down lifes highway, what makes us choose which route to take? I am becoming a repeat of my mother. I can remember as a child my mother trying every diet there was. I remember her telling me with so much excitement “I’m gone lose this weight” and here I am telling my children the same thing. It’s getting hard for me to swallow as I write this. I know I have to change or this will be my daughter. She’s already overweight and it’s not her fault. She’s taking after her mother who took after her mother who took after her mother. My grandmother had diabetes, high blood pressure, multiple strokes and died of a massive heart attack. Sorry if this is depressing but I need to see this in writing for myself. My mother now has diabetes, high blood pressure, glaucoma which my grandmothe had too. This is my future if I don’t change my life and If I change my life my daughters will change also. How can people literally eat themselves to death? I wish I could answer that question for myself. I promise my blogs are really light hearted and funny but right now I am trying to “transition” myself to having a long healthy life.Remember,”what you do today may inspire someone tomorrow”….
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This is good stuff we all need to hear. Most of us are the way we are due to how we were raised and yes you are right we do the same things to the next generation. But we will end this cycle by working harder and not giving up.
I just want to cry when my boys suck in their belly and say, “Mom, look how skinny I am!” I hate it. I say to myself that I need to stop talking about my issues with my weight in front of them, because they are too young to understand. The boys are not overweight in any way, in fact I think my youngest is underweight (my youngest, at 5-1/2 years old, weighs 35 lbs, and my 7 year old weighs 52 lbs). I am afraid that I am going to cause them to have eating disorders because all I do is talk about my weight, diet, or size. For me, like many others, its not just a diet, something that I am going to stop doing one day, its a way of life and I should stress to them how important healthy LIVING is, not just making up for the bad things I do/did (the binge/purge cycle). Its so hard to be a parent. If you say too little, they don’t get it and if you say too much, they exagerate it. I do hope you feel better, and feel free to add me as a friend if you need someone to talk to!