First Negative Comment

Katanthus

I keep my fitness and health stuff away from Facebook. I want to lose the weight, get healthy, then post photographs, and make them all wonder how I did it. You watch, they will all want to get off the couch then. Thinking there is a miracle weight loss program out there. The other thing is, people try to derail you. You share you are doing well, and they try to scupper you plans. I would say, tell them, they can defriend you, if you still want to post to Facebook. If they aren't supportive, then they are part of the problem

Rocbola

So I have facebook linked to MFP, like most people would, I imagine. Everytime I log my exercises it shows up on facebook. So today, I logged my exercises and it posted to facebook, but I alos made a comment about a dislike towards Bear Crawls, and for the first time I actually had someone tell me to stop posting all the exercise posts and what not. Then another one said that all I talk about is working out, rewind back about 3 months and all you would read would be, "hangover, drunk, passed out, beer, drunk...."

They say they are joking, but as a person that jokes i know there is always a bit of truth to every joke. It's not demotivating, but interesting because I just started to think to myself that I have not had to deal with any negativity/hate towards my workouts. It's a first and I imagine I'll deal with more. I wonder if it's a shock for them to see me devoting more time to being healthy then the partying. I'm telling myself it's a little envy and sadness. They envy the all the effort I'm putting forth and they are sad that they don't have me around at parties as much and miss me :laugh: That's how I deal with this bit of negativity.

Sometimes, people are aren't fed up with you getting in better health, they are mad at themselves for not being in better health.

Also, people on facebook tend to get annoyed when somebody posts automatic things everyday. I'm not a fan of seeing people's farmville updates and things like that. I didn't link my facebook to MFP for that reason.

bionicrooster

I don't post anything about fitness on Facebook or twitter. People outside MFP do not understand and it's ok

Same here. I keep FB life and MFP life seperate.

Hellbent_Heidi

I agree with this. I love to hear about people's fitness goals and success stories, but even we die-hard MFP folks have our limits, I have one FB friend set a goal to run a mile every day this year, and EVERY single day she updates her "running streak" (yesterday was day 152).

I once had a friend doing a count down to her wedding day. EVERY day it was 97 days until I'm Mrs......., 96 days until I'm Mrs...... KILL ME NOW!

:laugh: I have one of those "bridezillas" in my friends list as well. I've also got one (someone from high-school) who is a recovering meth addict and will post (no joke) 15 inspirational quote/photos in a row on any given day (her, I've now blocked!).

Even the most positive udpates can be overkill to the people who just aren't interested...

AlyRoseNYC

Muggles just don't understand...

shodaimetruth

Thanks for all the information and point of views. I have seperated the two as it makes sense that some people just don't want to have the same discussions that I'm having. I wouldn't bother people in here about video games that i'm playing and I won't bother people on facebook about exercise/diets. I might do the occassional update on my weight loss and an occassional photo here and there, but as of now they are seperated.

I think it is important to seperate the two and remind myself and others that there is more then just the working out to who I am. I can't let myself trade one lifestyle (partying) for another (exercise) even if the other is more healthy. i can't just be one dimensional and I think I need to remember that.

Thanks again for all the positive feedback on the situation.