šŸ“ AITA for wanting to eat less?

By Elegant-Library-4607 • Score: 2 • April 11, 2025 1:27 PM


Ok, so I’m 17 and I’ve been fat for nearly my entire life. Just last year I started exercising more and eating less and I lost quite a lot of weight. I’m no longer overweight but some belly fat remains that I want to get rid of. However, my mom took notice of my appearance and told me that I look ā€˜skins and bones’, I do not. At first she just told me to eat more and to stop ā€˜starving myself’ but I ignored her and continued working out and eating less. She didn’t like that and we had an argument over my eating habits. She now keeps looking at my food and forces me to add more because it’s too little (it’s more than enough). I kept telling her it’s too much but she won’t listen and keeps telling me that what I’m doing is unhealthy. We had another argument when she caught me skipping breakfast. I’m noticing that I’m gaining fat again and started eating less in secret and even star skipping breakfast a few times. Well, my mom caught me skipping breakfast one time and we had a very bad argument. My mom told me that I don’t know what I’m doing because I’m a kid and repeated that I’m starving myself and that I’m not fat. The argument went so far that she told me that if I’m starving myself that I should just kill myself since I’m killing myself by not eating right. I know she didn’t mean that but I thought it’s a bit too far and honestly broke my heart. My mom also has a failing heart and can’t be stressed so I usually can’t properly argue back without making her even more mad. Now I can’t even eat in secret because she always takes a look at my food and gets mad when I don’t show her. She even told me to stop exercising everyday and only for two days a week. I just want to lose weight and fat to get my dream body and my mom is actively impeding my progress. She keeps telling me that I’m too thin which isn’t true. I fear that I’ll be fat again at this rate but I can’t just argue back or else I risk her health. Any time I try to talk about it peacefully she would just restate her points and get angry that I’m not following her. She keeps saying that I’m just a kid that doesn’t know any better and should just listen to her. I even tried to tell her to let me see a doctor instead but used CHATGPT to find an answer, telling it that she wants me to gain weight and what to do. I tried asking her to ask it if it’s healthier to lose weight but she told me that’s not needed. For the record I’m around 63 to 64 ish kg and at around 5’8. Not overweight anymore but again I still have belly fat. So, AITA and what should I do?

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