By way of contrast, my parents restricted me to 600 calories a day when I was 7 and spent 8 months requiring me to do half an hour of Canadian Air Force calisthenics before bed. And when that didn't work, they gave up. When I went from outweighing my father by 50 lbs to underweighing my father by 50lbs in the space of three months, they said "congratulations." I'm 7 inches taller than my father.I wasn't really taught that excess caloric intake = increased body fat when I was a kid and I guess no kid really should. Parents need to be taught so that they can be that health-buffer.
Jesus Christ. My mom is a huge (negative) influence on my body image as I grew up — she’s a former anorexic who never seems to have gotten any therapy about it — but your parents are just fucking next next level. As sadly seems usual hearing from you about them.