I'm at my wits end with my mum. We are both following the points diet, yet she seems to think it's fine to eat when she pleases without making a note of the points.

For example, my mum bought a packet of fig biscuits and a packet of chocolate covered digestives to put in the biscuit barrel for if we, or any visitors, want the occasional biscuit. That's fair enough, I hear you say!! I know for a fact I haven't touched the biscuit barrel since she got them yet when she asked for two fig biscuits last night, I went to get them and there were only two left! All the digestives were there but there were no fig biscuits. We haven't had any visitors who could have eaten them either. I asked her in a very roundabout way where they had gone. She didn't admit that she'd had them all, but also didn't deny it. I asked if she had been writing them down (we have this pad we both share and write all our foods/points down on). She said yes, but I checked later and she hadn't.

There's been many occasions of this sort of thing, and I just don't understand why she's kidding herself! She has 18 points a day, very rarely eats breakfast or lunch and instead binges on a night (yesterday, she had two cups of tea all day...We then had pasta and vegetables for dinner. She had a mullerlight after, then FOUR scoops of ice cream, then a cup of tea and the two fig biscuits)!!! I've tried telling her to eat proper meals through the day and that should hopefully curb the binge eating but she doesn't want to know. Then she complains when she doesn't lose any weight each week....or just loses a pound.

I've just made some delicious soup for the dinner tonight and she was going on about having to eat the remainder of the bread up otherwise it will go off. I sat there and (jokingly) said "oooh be careful of your points" and she was very quick to snap and say "well we need to eat...we can't starve just because of this". And that is what it's like anytime I try to talk to her about her food intake.

I KNOW she can do it though. She was once on WW many many years ago (before the points diet) and lost a great deal of weight. She has got into bad habits since then though and is  now of the mindset that she needs to be eating all the time on an evening (she's fine in the day...) I suspect it is because she's bored and needs to be doing something with her hands while she's watching TV. I've tried to keep her occupied and stop her thinking about it, but it doesn't work

So what do I do?! The easiest thing would be just to leave her to it and concentrate on myself (and i'm VERY tempted to do that), but I want to see her succeed on it as well!