Negativity and jealous resposes

It really stinks that your friends can't be more supportive. It sounds to me that they are just trying to project their past failures or their unwillingness to start on this journey themselves onto you and maybe trying to bring you down to their level just a little bit.

I heard a pastor once say that it is much easier to drag people down than it is to lift someone up. he was using this in a spiritual context but I believe it applies to life in general.

keep up the good work. I know it's hard having people close to you be negative but use that to keep going make them even more jealous HAHA.

Take care

Those people probably just want to do that because they already know that they cannot put in the effort into themselves that you are already doing for yourself.

+1

I know exactly how you are feeling. my family is so supportive and my exercise buddy never is negative when i do better than her and im not negative when she does better than me. I do have a friend tho that has always been somewhat jealous when i lose weight. The first time i lost the weight she started losing weight too which is great but she was supportive with mine.....it was more of a competition between the two of us. that was 2 yrs ago. since then i had put weight on and so has she. she lost it again about 4 months ago and now that she is smaller than me she makes comments about what size she wears in a way to say that shes smaller without actually saying it. she was my BF for a longtime but we have grown apart and this has a lot to do with it. When i lost the weight the first time and she started competing with me everytime i was around her she would have somekind of comment about how much more weight she lost that week than i did....now everytime im around her its somekind of remark of how she is smaller than me. It gets old and friends should not make you feel that way. Thats why im so greatful to have my workout buddy that is so supportive and doing this with me instead of against me. Sorry so long but wanted to vent a little with my frustration on this topic.

I feel your pain. I hear things all the time at work, esp. with the type of food I'm eating.. "Eww, what's that? It smells funny" While they are shoving McDonalds in their mouth. Jealousy, that is all it is. It used to make me mad, but I realize now they are making those comments to make themselves feel better b/c they do not have the motivation and willpower that we do to stick with it. Someone is always going to try and bring you down....Just stay positive and keep up the good work!

oh same! the people where i used to work always did that to me. and the things is it was just things like brown rice with beans a piece of fish and they looked at me like i was eating alien food!

Dude, You are an idol to me. Keep up the good work. Alll the good people here who take the time and make the effort are a tremendous inspiration.. Keep going all of you.

Do it for yourself and noone else. Keep up the great work!!!

^^^^^ that sums it up!

I get hassled all the time! It's all supposed to be in good fun by my closest friends and family but it does chip away at you! My sister affectionately calls me Lolly, as in Lollipop head and says I look like one of those catwalk models with a head too big for her body... It's great for my self esteem!

The worst thing I find now is people offering me food all the time, stating that now I'm thin I can eat what I want and not believing me when I try to explain how hard maintenance is. I'm trying to ignore it and figure that eventually they'll get bored of it!