astri

Four months ago I was a size 16 and I was sooo uncomfortable in my own skin. I am now a size 8 and I feel really good about myself. I have to keep reminding myself that when I walk into a room people aren’t staring at me. I doubt they were before but I am sure they aren’t now. I have noticed one odd side effect of losing weight though, some of my old acquaintances don’t talk to me anymore. My friends are happy for me, but some of the moms who used to talk to me around town don’t even look at me anymore. Buddyslim is the only place where I am even remotely flashy or boastful about my weight loss, in fact in day to day life I feel embarrassed when people compliment me. The women who ignore me now are overweight, I think they probably feel awkward around me, but I wish it weren’t the case. Alienation from my overweight friends was a totally unexpected side effect of losing weight. One of the women who no longer talks to me, her husband came up to me and my husband at a school function a while ago and was telling us how good we were looking which was nice of him, but when he jumped right into how he was trying to get his wife to exercise more I just wanted to shrivel up. I thought no wonder she doesn’t talk to me anymore, I wouldn’t want to hang out with me either. Men can seriously be so thick sometimes. When my husband finally gave up all hope of me ever getting in shape is when I wanted to. In my own time and for me.
Oh well that is my rant for the day!