After Her Dad Made Comments About Her Weight Again, She Decided To Call Him Out For His Recent Weight Gain, But Now Her Sister And Mom Think She Took It Too Far
Throughout this young woman’s entire childhood, she claims to have always been on the heavier side. Honestly, though, how her body looked had never really bothered her that much.
Well, that was until her father– who is fifty-six– started making comments about her body and her weight.
For the most part, she has tried to just brush his comments off in the past. After all, her dad always claimed to be looking out for her and said he just wanted what was best for her.
She also pointed out how it’s not like she doesn’t exercise, either. In fact, she actually works out two to three days a week and sticks to a relatively healthy diet– eating only two meals a day.
For whatever reason, though, her body weight always seems to plateau– and it is quite frustrating.
“My weight usually stays the same and steady, and my attempts to lose weight fail all the time, no matter how hard I try,” she explained.
Her dad, on the other hand, is pretty obsessed with exercise. In fact, he specifically loves running so much that he actually runs multiple long-distance marathons with distances of up to one hundred kilometers.
Last August, though, her dad was in a bad car accident and actually suffered a broken leg from it. So, because of his injury, her dad has had to cut back on running– his main form of exercise.
And due to the lack of exercise, her dad has actually gained a bit of weight himself.
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“He didn’t gain a significant amount,” she clarified, “but I noticed a lot of his shirts do not fit him anymore.”
And recently, she believes that she may have been a bit of a jerk after she used her dad’s weight gain to shut down his body shaming.
Apparently, the incident began on a pretty hot day. And since it was hot outside, she decided to throw on some biker shorts and a cropped top.
Now, she does know that she has “a little bit of a belly,” which was visible while wearing the crop top. However, she did not think anything of it– especially because she was in her own home, after all.
Well, as soon as her dad saw her, he apparently thought differently. First, she claims that he looked down at her stomach.
Then, he told her that she needed to exercise more in order to “lose some fat.”
She was obviously taken aback by that and decided to ask her dad why he was always so bothered by her weight and body.
She also pointed out how it’s not like telling her she is fat will do anything, anyway. So, she asked her dad to give her a good reason why he was always commenting on her looks.
Yet again, though, her dad tried to say that he cared about her health. And acording to her, she knew that was just a cover-up since her dad was well aware that she exercised regularly and actively tried to take care of her body.
“So I think he is just fatphobic and does not like the way fat people look,” she revealed.
And at that moment, she decided to finally get some revenge on her dad. More specifically, she pointed out how her dad cannot tell her to lose weight when his clothes do not fit anymore. Plus, she said that at least her own clothes fit her. Yikes.
This immediately caused her dad to go silent; meanwhile, her eighteen-year-old sister started laughing out loud at her dad’s reaction to the comments.
While shutting her dad down might have felt good at the moment, though, she is kind of regretting it now.
Apparently, after the incident occurred, she decided to tell her other sister about what had happened. And her sister ended up telling her that she could have gotten the same point across in a gentler way– especially because her dad is probably just feeling insecure right now and projecting his own insecurities onto her since he doesn’t know how to deal with them.
Then, her mom also agreed with her sister and claimed she did not have to be so harsh.
So honestly, even though she has gotten super fed up with her dad’s remarks about her appearance, she does feel kind of bad about what she said in retaliation.
And now, she has been left wondering if calling her dad out for his own weight gain was the right way to handle the situation or if it just made her a bully.
Have you ever had a parent constantly degrade your body or weight? How did you handle it? Is “projecting insecurities” an excuse to be fatphobic, or was she just giving her dad a taste of his own medicine? If you had been in her shoes, would you have done the same thing?
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