Loved one on a diet? What their shakes and weight loss mean for you.
Your spouse or partner (or best friend) goes to the doctor and is told to lose weight. And they do. You're pleased for them—on some small level that is—believing perhaps that weight loss is in their best interest. Maybe you’re concerned about how sedentary they've become or about their risk with climbing blood sugars or cholesterol levels. You know how sluggish they’ve been and surely you’d care to see them feel better both physically and mentally. But mostly you're not so pleased. Sound familiar? Whether you're recovering from an eating disorder or trying to break from the diet mentality and release yourself from diet rules it has "triggering" written all over. To quote my dear friend in recovery from an eating disorder "why is that he's allowed to diet and I can't?" "Why must I be the one in the family who models appropriate eating behaviors, while he restricts his grains and sucks down liquid supplements?" It's simply not fa...