How can you tell me it doesn't work?

Calm down, calm down. Nothing works, unless you use it. My elliptical didn't work.... because it sat out in the garage for a year. Don't let cranky relatives get you down. Just smile and love them. You know what works for you and you have had great success, and people are noticing! Hooray!

I think Bee is right...some men have an awful way of saying things. But i can also relate to the kind of male relatives who just say mean things. My father is like that and he does it because he knows he can rile (sp?) up my sisters. when he does it to me, I ignore him and walk away...keeping my high from knowing i'm doing something good for myself.
The important thing is that you feel good, you don't let him get you down (b/c in truth, whatever it is he BELIEVES has no bearing on what is actually happening!), and also that your aunt doesn't let his negativity stop her from also trying it out!
Keep up the good work!

So true,


MEN !!!! They mean well. They just don't understand how something said can be a major set back lol.

Geez ladies....:sick:

"SOME" men, fine, but don't lump us ALL in with the losers out there :bigsmile:

Everyone regardless of sex reacts to various kind of exercise differently, if that was not true, then there would only be ONE set of exercise on the whole planet.

loopybec2002, you are obviously doing something right, you have lost a lot of weight, and are getting compliments, who cares what the grumpy old curmudgeon thinks, keep it up, and I'm glad that the Wii thing works for you, bravo!

Hey - my husband is no loser!!!! He just doesn't always know how to put things! xxx

I thought I had put a smiley in after my hey!

I do agree with the some men though - I know some know how to say things - just can we say the majority don't haha :flowerforyou: :laugh:

I have a wii as well i went to use it the other day and the batteries were dead on my board =( will need to get new ones, anyways i always like to do the free step on the wii while watching tv anything that gets you moving will help(tell your uncle that ;p) my family is like this too, i lost 80lbs before coming to this site,(just have about 30 more to lose) and they had all kinds of suggestions for me and comments, I started killing them with kindness, i am a major smart a** and now i just humor them and laugh about it later because if don't it just makes me mad. So for example my grandma (extremely judgemental) asks me about my weight everytime i go to her house and if she visits me at work she looks me up and down and asks what i have been eating. She is like have you been eating french fries ( i never eat these) and i go yes i eat them every night., while i am smiling through clenched teeth lol. She tries to give me exercise tips LOL this lady drove to the mall to mall walk for 15 min. and then went home. She isn't that old she could do a little extra, anyways I hope this helps

It seems there will always be at least ONE person to say something negative about diet/exercise and its not always a man. I work with a couple of women that would say something like what the OP said her uncle said. They ompliment you, then say something negative when you tell them what you did to lose wt. Its hard not to let it bother you, but at the end of the day does it really matter? YOU got results doing something YOU enjoy. Personally I think if more people would find some type of exercise they ENJOY, they would be consistant and consistancy is what really brings results (JMO of course)

At one time I had a boyfriend that was always saying things that made my job less than his. He worked as an A/C tech and I as retail manager. I challenged him to go a day in my shoes, and I would go a day in his. I spent the day carrying his tools back and forth between the homes and the van, driving around between the job sites, and carrying parts from the warehouse to the van. He didn't lift or carry anything all day. His normal work day was 8.5 hours, that day we ended up doing 10 (summer). At the end of the day he was exhausted. I was fine.

My normal work day was 10 hours (six days a week). He tried to follow me all day. He helped unload trucks, stock the shelves, take care of customers, clean up messes, etc. That day was fairly easy since HE did HALF the lifting and carrying. On a normal day I would be alone doing it all. He crapped out after 7.5 hours. He sat in my office for the rest of my shift. I was better than fine since he had done half the lifting and carrying for me. That was a Saturday, the following Monday he called out of work because his back and feet still hurt. I spent the entire day Sunday taking care of him on my day off.

He never said another word about me being lazy or worked less hard than him. Funny thing, the relationship didn't last much longer...

Energy expended is energy expended no matter how it comes about. If you are striving for cardio workouts, then yes the intensity of the workout needs to be higher, but it really doesn't matter what you are doing to achieve it.

Just my opinion.