TW/ Dealing with other people’s eating/exercise habits
I’ve struggled with my eating in different ways on and off for a few years now, at times I’ve restricted what I was eating but I worked hard to get to a place where I didn’t feel such a strong urge to do that. Recently I’ve been struggling with sort of exercise addiction and using exercise to compensate what I eat. I’ve been really trying to have a miren healthy relationship with food and exercise, but since November during Covid lockdowns I’ve been staying with my boyfriend and his family. It’s been really nice, but his mum regularly doesn’t eat breakfast until 11am or 12 or even later, and she talks a lot about how little she eats and the exercise she does. It’s really hard for me to hear this stuff because it’s like having the ED voice but from someone close to me. I have asked my boyfriend to speak to her and ask her to not say stuff like that in front of me, and she did stop for a while but today she said again about how she’d only had one meal and done a lot of exercise and was really hungry. I don’t know how to deal with it without feeling like I need to restrict, but also I’m worried that she’s struggling and I feel like I should do something to help.
