Eeeeeeek......

Well, I think you should get a different gym partner. I actually didn't want to go to the gym. I told my husband that fat people don't go to our gym only skinny people. I tried to rally some friends to go with me, but they wanted to go at the crack of dawn or in the evening. i called to make an appointment with a training, but they only had men trainers (lucky for all the skinny girls) I got up the courage to go with my husband. He told me he would show me around and show me some of the weights. I did notice I was not the only overweight person there. So, I got the courage to go all by myself. I loaded the best Christian tuns I could on my son's Ipod and actually went by myself. I cranked up the music and did my workout. I even last 30 minutes on some Eliptical training machine. So cool, I had fun and went by myself. I even had a few stares at some men.... I have no idea of why they would look at a overweight 42 year old woman...no clue. Stay couraged. I lost six pounds in two weeks. I will be happy with one to two pounds a week. I have 39 pounds to go. Take one day at a time....

I liked the "should have slapped her silly idea". Some people have no consideration for other people and their feelings. A real friend would never insist you get on the scale I think she did this to make herself feel better cause she knew you were going to weigh in higher than her, skinny but low self esteem for sure. That was rude and beachy If a friend wanted you to weigh yourself, it would be to encourage you, not to gasp at your weight.

She needs to be dropped as a gym partner and wouldn't survive in my friend category either.