My parents are severely overweight and it's embarrassing...what to do?

[Anonymous]

My parents are both VERY overweight (not like so fat they can't fit through doors) but it is REALLY embarrassing for me. I don't want people, especially guys I date, to meet them at all. I hate when people tell me I look like my mother because she is fat. They have all sorts of health problems from it, and they think they eat healthy but they simply don't even come close, and they NEVER ever exercise, even when I ask them to come to the gym with me. I don't know what to do, I want to disown them but that would be awful of me...

[stercor]

Anonymous User:

This is your problem, not theirs. And someone telling you that you resemble your mother doesn't necessarily mean that you resemble her in weight issues. You came up with that all by yourself.

If you're ashamed of your parents, think about how bad it must be for them.

Most people probably think, "Oh, they're fat," and no further; they enjoy them as people, non-judgmentally.

Cut them some slack, girl.

I once was over 300 pounds. So there.

Ted

[Stacyzee]

When they say you look like your Mother, they mean you have the same features not the same weight.

I don't see why their health issues should be embarrasing. They are your parents, you should love them unconditionally.

Obviously, they have a problem keeping off the weight and you critcizing them is not going to help with it.

[Anonymous]

lol my mom told me that once, that she's embarrassed that I'm fat. I told her to shove it.

fat parents are pretty normal though.

[Asker]

I hate it.

[Opinion Owner]

and you may, but if theyre like any other person out there, there are probably things they hate about you as well. that's life, babe. you should try to focus on yourself. we all have things about our loved ones that we really don't like. I hate A LOT of things about my parents, but its not going to change them and that shouldn't be the reason for them to change anything in reality. its a waste of time to focus on those things though unless people actually want to change x why or z.

[Opinion Owner]

and not that you should actually give a sh*t about what strangers think, but it shows something very ugly about your character and personality if your main problem is how their physical appearance makes you look, and talking about how you want to "disown them," etc. If your rant had been purely out of a concern for their health, I would sympathize more. you took a different route though lol that's totally cool but it just makes me think you're a c*nt. just saying.