Obligatory Thanksgiving Rant I waited a couple days to post this but I've got some free time so here it goes. Some background: I'm a 20 year old female and I have two sisters. I went back to my hometown to see my family for Thanksgiving. My younger sister is 18 and is in her first year of college, and thus her first year of eating on her own. My sister and I have never been close. Our relationship is strained at best. Throughout our entire childhood she was always pretty chubby. We figured it was just baby fat. My family never ate fast food and reserved junk food to be limited treats after dinner or school. I grew up healthy, but extremely slim and twiggy. I was a picky-eater and I also swam competitively and figure skated up until my sophomore year of high school. My little sister was not very active, except for a few years of forced sports participation. While my sister ate mostly healthy food that my mom cooked, she was constantly going after seconds or thirds. For example: I might have a serving of mashed potatoes, some chicken, and broccoli, but she would have three servings of mashed potatoes, double servings of broccoli, and pour sauce all over her chicken. Subsequently, she gained weight. She hasn't been thin since she was about 6 or 7 years old. When we were in high school, we actually began to suspect she had some sort of thyroid issue and my parents had her checked out for all these disorders. Nothing came up. She was always really upset that I was skinny and she was not and would constantly bring it up. She'd complain and say "But you eat the same as me and it's always healthy!" The reason I ate so much was because I was a swimmer and figureskater and had practice about 5-6 days a week. She was just sedentary. Then I went off to college and I was busy with work and school and didn't join any athletic clubs or teams. So I stopped eating as much and actually lost weight during my freshman year and had to eat more to gain it back. So here comes the Thanksgiving part. I come in town and when I get home, it's about 1 PM. I ask when my sister was getting back in town and my dad says she's already in town and is just sleeping. She slept until 3 in the afternoon. Then instead of greeting me after not seeing her in many months, she yelled at me for waking her up by "walking too loudly" outside her door. When I finally saw her, I barely recognized her. She had dyed her hair purple and gained about 40 pounds! None of her clothes fit her right. I was appalled and said something to my mom in private about it and my mom was equally disgusted. At dinner that night, we went out to eat and I got a really unhealthy pasta dish. I don't go out to eat that often so when I do I like to splurge. My sister then started complaining that it's not fair that I can eat whatever I want and not gain weight. She kept going on and on and on about it and I finally flipped out at the dinner table and was like "I DON'T EAT WHATEVER I WANT! THIS IS A SPECIAL OCCASION SO I ORDERED SOMETHING I DON'T NORMALLY GET!" This of course made her reeee and call me a liar and say that it's not true and that she's seen me eat chips and cookies before. I about blew a gasket and said "I can only eat like that because I work out at least 4 times a week. I'm not sitting around just stuffing my face." She tried to start talking about how she doesn't have time to eat healthy, etc. I was just fuming. My parents spoil my sister and gave her their credit card and she buys whatever food she wants on it and doesn't work. I have to pay for all my own groceries and work throughout the week as well as go to school. She has no excuses! She's taking less hours, has a gym right across the street from her dorm, has a full kitchen in her dorm, and doesn't have a job. She has plenty of time and the ability to workout and eat healthy. At this point my parents got angry because we had been fighting and I knew it was inappropriate so I stopped. Then the waiter came around and asked if anyone wanted dessert. The only person to order any was my sister. She also got soda to drink while the rest of us had water. Another tangent I have is that nearly person I saw while I was in town made some comment about how I'm so skinny and need to eat more. The people who said these things were all overweight. They kept making comments about how I've lost weight and look unhealthy and offering me food. It was so annoying. I haven't lost any weight. I started getting paranoid and weighed myself when I got home and I was the same weight as the last time I saw these people! For the record I'm about 5'7/5'8 and normally range between 128-133 lbs in weight which puts me at about a 20.4 or so in BMI which is perfectly normal. TL;DR: My sister went off to college and gained 40 lbs. Claims that I'm naturally skinny. Also people say I'm unhealthy and tell me I've lost weight when I haven't, they've just gained it.