A friend will try to help you if you’re having issues, whether you like it or not, and some of them might not stop even if you explicitly tell them to. That might get annoying and when asking nicely doesn’t work, there are other ways to handle it.
The story took place a while ago after the Original Poster gave birth. During the pregnancy, she gained 50 pounds and her friend M was very concerned about it. The friend was childless by choice and didn’t have experience with a changing body when you are carrying a child inside you. But the change in the friend’s treatment was obvious. Previously, when the new mom would come over to her friend’s house, M would offer her all kinds of snacks, but now she would get only cut vegetables and other low-calorie foods.
Somehow M didn’t notice that, kept pushing diet and exercise on the OP and didn’t ever stop when she asked to. When asking didn’t help, the woman decided to lie about her weight loss progress, and the friend keeping going on about it was quite funny as it was getting ridiculous. This argument wasn’t friendship-shattering and the woman assured the readers that M is a really good friend and this incident was the only annoying and intrusive behavior she ever displayed. She told Bored Panda the same thing and from the responses in the comments it seems that she is convinced that M just wanted to help her to get back in shape and there was no malice behind it.
But we still miss so much information. Very Well Mind gives a couple of causes of the phenomenon. One of them is that we can’t focus on everything at the same time. We only can pay attention to a few objects with our whole concentration, so other information just goes by.