Parents over-eating

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My mum's partner makes enough food to feed about 4-6 people. My mum will eat say, two big bowls of soup just so he doesn't get upset. This really annoys me, because it's far too much for her (and for him) and they just shove food down their throats.

Anyway, I try and tell them they're eating too much, but they won't listen. Is there a way I can possibly get through to them that the amount they're eating is very wrong, even if it is healthy food? It's not just healthy food though, of course.

Perhaps one way would be to measure their caloric intake but I don't know how to go about that, maybe as a joke or a bet.. I think if you did that for, say, a week and then later calculate their weight gain, nutrient deficiency, bad cholesterol.. And then tell them your findings.. There are programs that could do that for you and while monitoring their intake might be tricky if they do eat too much perhaps even a fraction of what you see could do. The problem is that if you do that for one day or meal it migt not be effective. It also depends on whether you are comfortable to confront them or they just don't listen.
That's a weak advice but I don't imagine what else could help.

That is a TERRIBLE situation! I grew up in a German-influenced home, and the food portions and type of foods served, would kill anyone by age 40. I don't understand people like that, but it's not up to us to tell them what to do. The best you can do, is set an example. You can't change their habits by anything you say or write, if my experience serves me correctly. I've noticed that after a gluttonous person reads me the riot act for "eating weird or not enough", they find out my age, and see me with my shirt off... They see me at age 44 not complaining about being tired, or being fat, or needing help to move something, and they see me take off and run up a hill, or act as athletically as a 16 year old boy... Or they'll notice that I recover from sickness or injuries way faster than most other people my age. Then somehow all of a sudden they want to know what I eat, and how much. I gladly explain it, and once in awhile, someone will act on it, and thank me years later.

Some may say it's rude to turn down food served, but I do that. I politely explain that I eat a certain way, and if a host or hostess ignores that, I'm sorry but there will be food left on the plate. My body and good health (God willing), is more important to me by far, than pleasing someone else who is mistaken about priorities in my life.

My advice would be to choose your principles in eating, and stick to them, and politely explain, and apologize in advance for whatever might be poor manners, if your family finds it that way. I can't say whether they will go along with this, or if it might cause trouble, so please use you own best judgement on that.

Charles

I think I know that one..
All in all as kx250rider mentioned don't let this eating behavior influence yourself no matter what