My mum was fat, and that's why I'm fit. I work with kids. And fat parents are consistently some of the worst. Recently I've seen some stuff about teaching children about "fat acceptance" and it makes me cringe. Fat parents making their kids fat and teaching them that it's okay to be fat. Nonononononono. My mum was fat. My bio-dad was fat. My grandparents are fat. My brother and I? We're not fat. Weird, right? NOPE.  When I was a teenager, I started to get fat as fuck. I developed an unhealthy relationship with food. I would sneak it in my bedroom, I would scurry around the kitchen at 2am when I couldn't sleep, I would eat when I felt upset, I would eat more when I felt happy. I ate so much shit in secret. At 17(and my heaviest, I was 5"7' and just over 200lbs), my mum sat me down and had a talk with me.  "You know why I'm fat? I eat more than I should, and I eat a lot of things I shouldn't. And it's why you're heavy too. You need to start portioning out your food. Stop having three helpings of pasta. Stop eating M&Ms out of a family sized bag. Stop sneaking food into your room. Stop eating at three in the morning. Get off the couch and go do things. If you don't stop and change your habits now, you're going to end up like me. Don't end up like me. This? Being this big? Being fat? It sucks. This is no way to live. Don't end up like me." Then she gave me a gym membership. She told me that I would only be allowed to drive the car if I spent at least two hours a week in the gym. I spent a week moping around the house, and bitching to my friends about how my mother hated me. Looking back, it was one of the best things she ever did.  I'm now 23 years old. I'm 5"8', and 155lbs. I've been 155lbs for four years, and I'm currently working on those last 10lbs. Honestly, if she hadn't sat me down and given it to me straight, I might still be 200+lbs. Parents are supposed to want their children to have a better life. And the fat parents that shove "fat acceptance" and all that HAES bullshit down their kids' throats piss me off because they're not helping their children towards that.