Hey everyone

My mom approached me today and in a disappointment tone she says "I was you would just eat normal. Your only 19 years old, you shouldnt be watching what your eating all the time."

Personally, I don't mind at all the way I eat...especially when I have goals in mind and have been seeing great progress. Normally I would just shrug it off. But things like that just gets me thinking that, is my way of eating and fitness lifestyle worth it?

So the question that I have for you is that has anybody that close to you approach you with something like that about the way you eat? How do you respond?

Thanks guys

Yes, yes, yes. Anytime you may a decision to do a lifestyle change, change your prospective living amongst a people whose prospective/thinking, etc you have deemed to be non-productive, strive for a better or more comprehensive education and the list goes on and on, you will be "attacked."

Unless you are anorexic, and/or your diet is dangerous and determined by a nutritionish or medical doctor, then if it works for you then "work it."

At 30 I began working to get my then pre-school son out of our zoned school that was failing; once I did I became the, "Stuck up Bitch." When I realized I could not demand from my children something I had been unwilling to do thinking I was unable to do, complete my education and get a degree (I was a high school dropout), I went back to school at 35, I became the Stuck-up-Bitch who thought she was white ( I didn’t know that being black meant you were stupid and uneducated).

When I allowed my now older son to choose between two not-for-profit advanced education programs and/or a Children's Theater Company he had audition for and got in, I must have thought that he was too good to "hang in the streets" with the other kids. Truth be known I did think that.

When that same son, now a High Schooler (High School of Performing Arts and Music and Arts - LaGuardia, aka The Fame School) decided he no longer wanted to be in Theater and joined the Marine’s, I freaked out but I signed him in (He was 16 and a High School Graduate).

Upon leaving the Service, after he completed his four years, he began working at EPCOT in Florida but then decided he wanted to go to College so he would not be consigned to asking, "Do you want fries with that Hamburger?" Those in the area said, "You're too old to go to College you should have done that when you graduated High School (Remember my son was 16 when he joined the Marines, about to turn 17). When he enrolled in the Engineering School of Central Florida University, well pick something that comes to the top of your head, anything and you will not be far off from what he was called.

He is now a Structural Engineer untouched by this recession we are in. He has worked on Boeings 787, the Dreamliner, and the Space Station and is now working for a well known auto company who just entered the manufacturing segment of corporate jet production. He was recently asked by a French Company to become an employee, not a contract worker, and move to France (That would mean he would have to give up all his Security Clearances).

The people who tried to kill his dreams, his experimentation into things and places that no one in the family, neighborhood, and schools had ever been before were family members, close family, neighbors, friends, early educators and loved ones.

Just follow your dreams, your heart and your gut. It may be rough, it may be tough, it may be stressfull; however, to become a diamond a piece of coal must come under a great deal of stress. Here's to you becoming a diamond so bright I need to wear shades.

What's normal? My husband thinks I eat weird but that's because his normal is lots of greasy fried foods, sugars and garbage. I think he's not normal (although I'm afraid he is) but my food intake works for me and I'm not considered obese with high blood pressure like he is.

If you're being really restrictive with your eating to the point of not getting enough nutrition then maybe they have a point but if you're eating a healthy diet and feeling good then I'd either ignore the comments or ask for an explanation of what the person thinks normal is.

I think this is a good opportunity to teach your mother about eating healthy and how certain foods can not only lead to weight gain but other health problems. Usually it's the parents who teach their kids how to eat healthy and live healthy lives.

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I used to get told to eat normal all the time, now people have given up and just heave exasperated sighs. The thing is...I'm thinner and fitter than most of the people telling me. If someone in better shape than me said it, I'd pay attention, but otherwise...I don't much care.

I couldn't agree more. Most people's idea of what is "normal" is actually anything but normal or right for the human body. I think if someone who is very fit and healthy suggests that you try eating in a particular way then it's worth listening to, but otherwise I wouldn't worry too much.

i agree with people eating normal show health and you have cure from many disease. and exercise or jogging is also necessary for health.

yes eating balance in every age it make you healthy and you looking fit and smart . eating in balanced diet is not a dieting practice but it is a good practice for living healthy.

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I don't understand, why people are so much concerned about eating all the time. Well I agree that its good to have a good life style because its good for your health and living but why bother so much about eating disorders. Can we just stop thinking about it start discussing something else?


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Eating normal is the best way to live good and smart life and fitness is very important question nowadays, so eating normal and balance diet is superb thing.

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