So there's not really much new going on since yesterday. But, did you ever notice how when you start to succeed, people will start to either sabotage you or basically hate on you? Even if it's not downright obvious.
Here's the thing. I've known this girl since I was 10 years old. I'm 28 now. She's one of those people that is cool to have fun with, but not to be sincere with. I've tried to get her out of my life, but she keeps popping up and I'm too nice to be mean. But anyway, since I've started my healthy journey, she's all the time messaging me telling me about her unhealthy meals. And she tries to use very describing words like "flavorful" and "mouth watering". And it's not that she's making me want to eat the foods she's talking about. It's just the fact that I really feel that she is wanting me to think, "Man that sounds delicious, I'm gonna go and eat that instead of something healthy."
Now, some people may wonder why she cares about what I'm doing... Well, I've always been the "fat friend" and she's always been the skinny girl who would get honks from guys as we walked down the street. Anyway, since having a baby, she's gained a lot of weight and is over 200 pounds now. So I'm thinking she's feeling competitive with me because she's always needed to be in the spotlight. She's never really had skinny friends. And I'm losing weight every week.
The first week I told her how much I lost and instead of praise, she said it was "probably just water weight". So I don't think I'm reading into it too much, I just really don't appreciate that from people. I can't say I'm surprised, but I'm a little taken aback by how obvious it seems. I didn't say anything negative back to her about the unhealthy food she was having and I didn't say it sounded yummy because I don't want her to think she's successful in trying to tempt me. I did however, tell her what I'd had for dinner and how it was pretty freaking delicious and healthy. Because that's what's important to me. Healthy food is tasty too, dangit!
So I'm definitely not going to let anyone discourage me at all, but it's just interesting to see who is supportive of you and who isn't. I totally get being jealous, but I do my best not to hate and to put myself in that persons shoes and feel happy for them because I know that I would want others to be happy for me when I'm succeeding at something. :)
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