|
It's annoying having to explain to people why you aren't eating much.
And it's mostly unhealthily overweight people in the process of devouring a double bacon cheeseburger that want to get on your case for eating a bowl of soup for lunch (and heaven forbid you don't finish all of it).
My family still eats like crap. I got home from work and ate a turkey sandwich and some various fruits and veggies. I didn't even finish all of it but I wasn't hungry anymore so I stored the rest for later. About an hour later my family all comes in and wants to go pick something up from a resturant. Ordering steaks and chicken salads covered in ranch and fries and all manner of icky things. When I told them I had already eaten they all turned on me and I about had it.
I ended up snapping and saying some pretty harsh things to them. They all bitch and moan constantly about being overweight but continuously eat fast food and never do anything that could even loosely be considered some form of exercise.
My father said he was sick of me "walking around like some sort of god damned dieting swami" and that the only reason I managed to drop 20 pounds and get in shape is that I somehow missed the family gene that makes you fat. Yeah, that's it.
Is it so hard to expect anyone in the world to have the slightest bit of willpower? I don't care if you want to be morbidly obese. I'll sit by and watch you kill yourself because I know that there's nothing I can do to change the way you are and it'd just be a waste of breath.
But I get so sick of being constantly ridiculed for wanting to eat healthily. Has American society become so ingrained in our unhealthy lifestyle that we feel the need to alienate and criticize those that want to be healhty? Since when did being unhealthy become not only common and accepted, but the preferred norm where people that are in shape are looked down upon?
It's a miserable existence. You finally manage to start eating healthily on a regular basis. Make a full lifestyle change. Go through all the trouble of breaking bad habits, developing tastes for new foods. The big long path of dieting and making changes.
And when you finally hit that plateau of "I can do this the rest of my life and I feel great" and you are constantly crapped on by everyone else for it.
And I don't carry myself haughtily. I don't even tell people I'm dieting unless they ask. Someone will walk up and say, "You've lost a lot of weight, haven't you? Are you dieting? What's your secret?" and I tell them it's as simple as just watching what you put in your body and staying active.
That's pretty much the extent of my socialization as far as dieting goes. But apparently I'm some sort of "dieting swami," and acting like I'm better than everyone else. Get over yourselves. Put down the cheeseburger and eat a piece of celery for once in your life.
Dieting is harder than anyone is willing to admit. And it isn't the actual dieting part. It's dealing with everyone else that doesn't want to do it themselves.
EDIT: And I now officially am no longer dieting. This is my lifestyle now. It's not something different so I can lose weight. This is the norm and I couldn't be happier.
|
199.4 lb
Lost so far: 20.6 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
|
losing 0.1 lb a week
|