Honestly...
...I wish they were size 22. They're both 26/28.

Also, the "clam up and burst into tears" reaction is all I ever get when I try to offer help my sister. The whole family worries about her. We've tried weight watchers, curves for women, we bought a treadmill, hell, we even signed her up for lap-band surgery but she couldn't lose the 20 lbs to make the surgery possible.

When I mention to my mom that she should try some of these approaches herself, she rolls her eyes and says "It's different. I'm middle aged."

I feel bad for my dad sometimes. Mom looked like a model from the 1960's when the married.
(Audienda, Fri 27 Aug 2010, 17:09, 2 replies)

How blunt are you with them?
I know it is exactly what you don't want to have to do, but how blunt have you been with them? Would it be worth the tears and hatred short term to just tell them pretty much what you told us in your post - you feel they are hugely overweight, spiralling out of control and you feel they really need to do something about it as you are genuinely scared for their lives?

There may be a lot of tears, and they probably won't want anything to do with you if it works, but they need to realise, and if doing it that way lets them realise then it must be worth something.

Good/bad idea?
(442, Sat 28 Aug 2010, 1:51, closed)

what about writing it all down in a letter
rather than confronting them face to face? That way they can digest the information in their own time. I don't expect they would read it and go on an immediate diet but it might give them food for thought ('scuse the pun) and start them thinking about things from another point of view?
(TheFlyingOnion. looking forward to, Sat 28 Aug 2010, 15:57, closed)

Why don't you just put rat poison in all the fatty food
Eventually a pavlovian response may take over.

Alternatively mock them continuously, until they are angry enough to chase you. Keep this up for one hour a day and it will count as exercise for them.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Wed 1 Sep 2010, 15:03, closed)