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The original was posted on /r/maliciouscompliance by /u/Axolotl_Screaming on 2024-06-22 00:55:10+00:00.
So, this is me just reminiscing on when I was younger, but as a teen (13 or 14), my mom thought a great way to get me to be “healthier“ was to force me to work out or I wouldn’t be allowed to see friends or play games etc. Well, her new way to convince me to stop eating junk food (I ate junk food like once a day, maybe like chips or a candy but usually ended up eating healthy snacks and fruits throughout the day) was to start fat shaming me. It was little quotes here and there of “You can’t fit in that anymore“ or “You’ve grown a lot since you wore that” (clothes in question being oversized shirts and shorts, occasionally bathing suits, all from like 9 months prior. For context, I was no longer growing and had stayed the same height and weight for about a year and a half). Eventually, she got bored of making little comments and would say in public while eating out with friends that I shouldn’t eat that, too much fat. Nobody noticed or cared, but I got so pissed that she tried embarrassing me, that my dumb teen self decided to not eat for about 48 hours. She panicked when I stopped eating, because I had a bunch of medical condition (including very low blood sugar) and was starting to ask why I wasn’t eating. I simply responded with “You called my fat. You wanted me to lose weight. I don’t feel like working out, because the more you tell me this crap, the less I wanna do what you say.” In hindsight, I really should have just kept doing what I was doing instead of being petty, but I was young and easily pissed off. Now I’m just easily pissed off. And before anyone says I shouldn’t disrespect my mother, she also used to hit me for having a different opinion, and isolated me from society for about half a year and hitting me and harassing me verbally when I was 14 for dating somebody who wasn’t born a guy, so yeah. This is less malicious compliance and more “Hah, I have trauma“, but I still decided to kinda do what she said. Because during those 48 hours, I believe I lost about 5-8 pounds like rapidly.