I think I better start a list because this week I heard, what is in my opinion, probably the stupidest thing that someone has said to me. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that what they said was, in fact, their attempt to prevent me from going overboard with my "diet", but it came across as rather nearsighted and quite frankly, rude.
"You aren't fat anymore. You need to stop obsessing over your body and your weight and find something else to worry about, like your kids." I'm not kidding. Someone said that to me. Of course they added, "I'm not trying to offend you, I'm only concerned that you may take it to an unhealthy level and make yourself sick." Really? I was speechless. Which for me is pretty rare, ask anyone who knows me.
Today I weighed in at 190 ON THE DOT! That's a loss of 69lbs. I'm 5'8" and I should be under 159lbs. Roughly. Give or take a few pounds. So I'm still overweight by over 30lbs. OVERWEIGHT. Webster's defines overweight as: " weight over and above what is required or allowed." So I'm not at a healthy weight at all. I'm eating right, I'm still dropping weight at a good pace and I'm not starving myself or doing something "unhealthy" or "risky" to drop it. This is just one of those cases where someone who doesn't know me makes a judgement about my weight loss and uses a "friends" experience to paint me with the same brush. I'm just gonna nod and pretend I heard you. So, I'll add that to my list that will follow here. And henceforth, all stupid comments will be added in order of occurrence:
1. "You aren't fat anymore. You need to stop obsessing over your body and your weight and find something else to worry about, like your kids. I'm not trying to offend you, I'm only concerned that you may take it to an unhealthy level and make yourself sick." Oct 2, 2013
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