I'm sorry to hear your aunt said that to you. I remember growing up my grandmother, the person that raised my brother and I, would go on diets and we'd have to go along with her. There are many that I would have never embarked on knowing the result as I do today. I'd say tell her no. Your health and peace of mind is more important.

Why would you ever eat only one thing a day as part of a "diet"?! Not only is that extremely unsatisfying and will lead to binges, but it will completely fry your metabolism and you won't lose any weight at all. You need to eat small, regular meals to keep your metabolism going. Try hard boiled eggs, a banana with peanut butter, cheese and crackers, etc. Make sure to snack throughout the day to curb hunger, avoid binges and get the nutrients, such as protein and calcium, that you need. And remember, "diets" don't work.

Diets are not healthy. Period. Your aunt needs to read more about nutrition and what a healthy body type is, and needs to learn that her words are more than abusive. Asking or insinuating that you need to go on a diet to become, in essence, loved, is an act of violence.

There is an awesome book called The Food Revolution by John Robbins. In one chapter he talks about the fad diets that have occurred over the years, and how the authors were more often than not incredibly unhealthy, and admitted in their own books to being unfit and sick. The Zone Diet alone condones each person starves themselves to maintain weight loss and cause their bodies to be in a chronic state of ketosis which can be lethal for those who have diabetes.

Diet is just DIE with a T at the end, and means nothing and will not make life happy. You should invite your aunt to come on here and share those sentiments with us; I am sure we will have some advice for her. Keep your head up and know you're fighting for your life; to enjoy it, live it, and not get caught up in the lies of airburshed media :0)

Eat to live. Don't be ashamed of who you are.

you need some boundaries with this aunt. do not do the diet she is telling you to do. and please do not believe the lies she has told you. you are not fat and ugly. you are beautiful and strong. you are brave for bringing this issue to us. I don't know your situation, but can you get some professional help? if you don't hae/can't get a therapist... please look into going to an Overeaters Anonymous (OA) meeting. they are free and very helpful. these people can help you recover.

You are 19 years old, so I hope you tell your aunt 'no way' and take charge of your life. Your aunt sounds cruel. I hope you have some outside help with your eating problems.

Thanks everyone! I fought a lot with my aunt about it, I only did one day of the diet, but that was all of it. I'm never doing it. Thankfully i'm starting to get help, so everything I hope can go ok. I've been relapsing a lot, but I'm fighting.
Really it's awsome coming here and finding all of your words, they help a lot!!