She Refused To Eat A Birthday Cake Baked By Her Mother-In-Law, Who Knew That She Has Been On A Low-Sugar Diet For Over A Year
About a year and a half ago, this woman decided to start limiting her sugar intake. And ever since making that promise to herself, she has stuck to a low-sugar diet.
There were two main reasons why she began to make this lifestyle change. First, she recognized that she was obese and wanted to lose weight. Second, two of her family members have type two diabetes.
“So, I don’t eat any sweets, cookies, sweet pastries, cakes, etc. And in the one and a half years that I have been doing this, I have not lost any weight,” she revealed.
Anyway, last weekend was her birthday, and her mother-in-law showed up with a homemade cake.
It’s not like her mother-in-law was unaware of her low-sugar diet, either. In fact, her mother-in-law knew all about it, and she had even refused sweets baked by her mother-in-law various times throughout the past year and a half.
So, after seeing it, she just thanked her mother-in-law before sharing that she would not be eating the cake.
However, her mother-in-law would not take no for an answer. Instead, her mother-in-law actually admitted to knowing that she did not eat cake anymore and just said that since it was her birthday, she could make an exception.
Her mother-in-law also claimed that just one slice of cake would not make a difference or break her diet– which only encouraged other family members to hop on the peer pressure bandwagon.
“My sister-in-law and father-in-law started pressuring me into eating cake, too,” she said.
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Then, they even cut a slice of cake and placed it in front of her while continuing to push her to eat it.
So, she was forced to literally just sit there and keep repeating, “no, thank you,” until her inlaws finally decided to stop.
And once they did, her mother-in-law seemed really hurt. Her mother-in-law had apparently spent hours working on that cake and even remembered what her favorite flavor had been in the past.
So now, after reflecting on her birthday, she kind of feels like a total jerk.
“They are right– one slice of cake will not make any difference, especially since I have not lost any weight since limiting my sugar intake,” she explained.
Plus, she regrets not even tasting the cake that her mother-in-law supposedly worked so hard on and is wondering if refusing to eat some was the wrong thing to do.
Do you think it was her mother-in-law’s place to pressure her into eating the cake? What matters more– her personal promise or the fact that one slice of cake might not make a difference? How would you have handled this situation?
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