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Thanksgiving used to be about stuffing faces and ignoring calories, but now the menu doubles as a battleground for likes and macros. Every year you prep for a family feast and hope nobody brings drama as a side dish. Enter the cousin who treats every meal like an audition for her next fitness reel. She rolls in with meal-prep containers and poses with “clean” pie while everyone else just wants gravy and peace. Last year she made the whole affair look like a nutrition PSA and called your recipes “trash” for her followers.
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AITJ for refusing to let my cousin bring her “Instagram food” to Thanksgiving?
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Family holidays have taken a wild turn. Instead of fighting over who gets the drumstick, it’s now about who can out-health the dinner table and get the best angle. The quest for the perfect macro turns into the perfect storm when someone brings curated meals to a communal feast. Sharing is cool until it becomes a performance, and suddenly everyone else’s plate is an afterthought to the influencer’s food diary. Parents will call it exclusion, but hosting should not mean catering to Instagram trends while the mashed potatoes wait for their closeup. Nobody wants a holiday replayed as digital content or shamed for eating food that actually tastes good. Giving a heads-up on the dinner boundaries is about saving the occasion from a second helping of awkward, not punishment for a side hustle. Sometimes, the only thing that needs balancing is the mood at the table, not the macros.
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Thanksgiving host refuses to let her influencer cousin, Britt, bring “Instagram food” to dinner after last year’s shaming: ‘I told her if she can’t eat what’s served, she’s welcome to come after dinner’
Listen, I get it, I'm all for taking care of your health and staying on top of nutrition, it's important, and honestly respect to anyone who puts in that work. But when your macros turn into your entire identity and you can't enjoy one bite of real food, the celebration loses its flavor. If your commitment means everyone else has to tiptoe around basic joys like gravy and pie, that's not discipline, it's just exhausting. Sometimes it's better to drop the fitness crusade for one meal, grab a plate of stuffing, pour yourself a drink, and share a laugh with your people. Life's about moments, not meal plans, and holidays are supposed to be fun for everyone, not staged for content.
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