Her Obese Son Was Jealous Of Her Stepdaughter Getting To Eat Junk Food After He Was Put On A Diet, So Now She’s Limiting Everyone’s Junk Food Intake, And Her Daughter Says It’s Unfair
This 39-year-old woman has a son, who is 14, and her stepdaughter is 13. Her son is larger-bodied, despises exercise, and is addicted to eating junk food.
Sadly, her son has had a difficult childhood, and she’s realized that food is her son’s outlet for coping with his feelings rather than working through his emotions in healthy ways.
She takes accountability for her son’s struggles with his weight, acknowledging that she should have intervened and gotten him help sooner.
Her stepdaughter, on the other hand, loves eating junk food, and chocolate is one of her favorite sweets.
Every day, her stepdaughter eats a chocolate bar as well as a few Oreos, and sometimes, she eats even more junk food than this.
However, since her stepdaughter eats smaller amounts of food the rest of the time, combined with time spent in dance and gymnastics, she is very thin.
“Recently, my son’s doctor advised that he should lose weight. Hearing it so bluntly got me in action, and I decided, against my son’s wishes, that he was going on a diet. I got rid of most of his junk food, put portioning rules on the rest, and limited his soda intake,” she said.
Once she set these changes in place, her son started secretly eating some of his stepsister’s junk food, and she disciplined him whenever she realized he was doing this.
She told her stepdaughter that she could hide her snacks in her bedroom, but she wasn’t allowed to eat in her room.
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Her stepdaughter obeyed this rule, so she only ate her snacks in common areas of the house. Often, her son saw his stepdaughter eating foods he was no longer allowed to have, and he began whining about it, saying that it made him incredibly hungry and sad.
“She never went out of her way to do so; she’d just eat in places they happened to both be. While initially I told him she could eat wherever she wanted and he’d have to adjust to it, that made me think that I realized that while her weight is healthy, her eating isn’t,” she explained.
After having a discussion with her partner, they came to the conclusion that her stepdaughter should be consuming less junk food.
In response, her stepdaughter was angry, saying that she was being punished for her stepbrother’s health struggles. Her stepdaughter also said it was unfair for them to limit how much junk food she eats just so that her stepbrother feels better.
She and her partner haven’t limited how much her stepdaughter can eat in regard to healthy food and snacks, such as nuts, fruit, veggies, and granola bars, but they don’t allow her to eat as much chocolate as she previously did.
This situation has caused tension among the family. Her stepdaughter hasn’t been speaking to her stepbrother, which is a drastic change.
Her son and stepdaughter used to get along really well. The only time her stepdaughter talks to her or her husband is when she tells them how unfair they are.
“I really don’t want her feeling this way, but I also feel sort of justified in making her eat healthy because her health is my responsibility, and I should have been more careful of her and my son’s health long ago,” she shared.
Upon reflection, she decided to speak with a professional to get their expert advice. She’s planning to have a talk with her stepdaughter about what’s been going on.
What advice would you give her?
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