[ChristmasNeeve]

Yeah I think I agree with Slim here, it's a parents job to make sure their kids are healthy and being over weight isn't. People are tip toeing around hurt feelings and no one can take facts anymore

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah I think I agree with Slim here, it's a parents job to make sure their kids are healthy and being over weight isn't. People are tip toeing around hurt feelings and no one can take facts anymore

...yeah I agree as well, they handled it in a way that many parents would have...but Honey’s perspective is that diet advise is ‘insane and toxic’ and that’s how she found it both then and now in reflection...I wonder if she discussed the Loose Women debate topic with her parents before she went in and they also knew what she would say...because it would be very hurtful to her parents if it’s something they haven’t all discussed since and that was the first time they were hearing it...

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...yeah I agree as well, they handled it in a way that many parents would have...but Honey’s perspective is that diet advise is ‘insane and toxic’ and that’s how she found it both then and now in reflection...I wonder if she discussed the Loose Women debate topic with her parents before she went in and they also knew what she would say...because it would be very hurtful to her parents if it’s something they haven’t all discussed since and that was the first time they were hearing it...

Crash diets are insane and toxic maybe, but having a proper diet is sensible and healthy. I mean were they telling her to go on the Atkins diet or were they telling her to eat more fruit and veg and cut out the McDonalds and chocolate

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Crash diets are insane and toxic maybe, but having a proper diet is sensible and healthy. I mean were they telling her to go on the Atkins diet or were they telling her to eat more fruit and veg and cut out the McDonalds and chocolate

...in my own personal opinion, I think any diet is toxic just because of the word ‘diet’...which suggests depriving off and cutting out etc...it’s an eating change for a life plan that could work better for that person...and if it doesn’t...?...then it’s finding that life eating plan to ‘fit‘...I think especially when food treats are so important to young people as well..(...well older people also...)...so it’s being able to still have those, but just rearrange them a little...

[Ammi]

...maybe that’s it as well, maybe it’s the attachment to ‘diet’ that she felt to be toxic...

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Ammi

...in my own personal opinion, I think any diet is toxic just because of the word ‘diet’...which suggests depriving off and cutting out etc...it’s an eating change for a life plan that could work better for that person...and if it doesn’t...?...then it’s finding that life eating plan to ‘fit‘...I think especially when food treats are so important to young people as well..(...well older people also...)...so it’s being able to still have those, but just rearrange them a little...

Again, I don't see why we have to tip toe around words, your Diet is just what you eat, having a healthy diet isn't being on a diet as such. I don't think we're really helping kids turn in to capable, functioning adults by "protecting" them from words, absolutely normal words at that

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Again, I don't see why we have to tip toe around words, your Diet is just what you eat, having a healthy diet isn't being on a diet as such. I don't think we're really helping kids turn in to capable, functioning adults by "protecting" them from words, absolutely normal words at that

...it’s the use of words as well though ..’this is my daily diet/my daily diet comprises of....’...etc...’you should try this diet/why don’t you try this diet’..(..I hope this is something that she’s just agreed with her parents to talk about as well...because they all think it would be a good debating thing and she’s giving the perspective more as a debate point...)....

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Ammi

......but Honey’s perspective is that diet advise is ‘insane and toxic’ and that’s how she found it both then and now in reflection.....

Hm, that wording sounds like kind of thing you'd find on one of those websites which are done in earnest but are used to make feminists look stupid, if that makes sense "toxic" is a very "Tumblr" word. Sounds like Honey spent too much time on the Internet during lockdown

But in general, I agree with what Slim said up thread. Of course helping ones kids diet is a positive thing, while actively shaming them isn't.