Ever been made fun of for being healthy?

My family is a lot like that. They are mostly unhealthy and overweight and when I put on a few pounds they are all excited and when I try to regain control and take the weight off they are discouraging and tell me it's inevitable because of my genetics. So far I'm proving them wrong. But it's the same if I eat a lot they judge me for overeating as well. Can't win with some people.

Yep quite a lot. I've had to learn to let it go in one ear and out the other now. This is why I keep my food choices and workout talk on MFP and keep it to myself around other people. I agree, it gets real old.

I go through the same thing on a daily basis. I make a joke out of it.

YUP and I have a bunch of people at work trying to sabotage my weight loss

^^ what rjbrowne said...i get crap for it all the time but i turn it into a joke. don't let it get to you!

Every day of life in some shape or form.
At the grocery store, the bigger people mutter and/or loudly ask if I'm starving myself because I don't have Twinkies and soda in my cart.
At home, my aunties tell me I won't ever be able to remarry because I'm too thin and I look like a man.
Yesterday at work, one of the customer loudly exclaimed, "Wow, what happened to you, are you sick?".
Or If I pull out my phone to log, someone has something snarky to say about it. Or I get made fun of because I drink soy milk vs regular milk. Its like ok, I'll drink some regular milk if you don't mind me blowing up your bathroom with explosive diarrhea. :frown:
I'm not underweight either, just very slender and kinda boyish lol. Sh itbirds!

My mom always told me when people tease me, it's cuz they like me. I'm going with this...

I get it every sinlg eday...comments from men, about how heavy I lift and how I embarass them in the gym..nasty comments from women, my own daughter doesn't like the muscle, she says I draw too much attention...but with that, goes the compliments from the women who I inspire, my clients who who keep coming back, and the men I date that I don't intimidate who respect what I do....takes all kinds, let it roll off you, people who are negative about your healthy living style are envious or disatisfied with their own incapabilities to be able to do it...it's all good as long as you're happy at the end of the day with your coices.

In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter? They're making fun of you...**for being healthy**. Why take offense to that? that's like making fun of someone for being pretty or being talented at something. Yeah, it happens, but why let it bother you? at the end of the day, they're getting fat, you're getting fit. If you let it bug you then they're getting the reaction they want. At least they're noticing that you're doing something different you know?

My mom always told me when people tease me, it's cuz they like me. I'm going with this...

:laugh: I'm going with this too.

My mum is always telling me not to "go daft" with my exercise. Think she thinks I want to be anorexic or something. Her and my sister make fun of me all the time when I get my phone out to log my food, or if I don't log before I eat they're both "you can't eat that you've not logged it". I had a piece of birthday cake at work the other day and everyone was like "I thought you were wtaching your weight" yeah I can still have cake once in a while.

Its frustrating

I get made fun off all the time for trying to be healthy.

Americans have a skewed idea of what a healthy weight looks like. I was in the overweight BMI range and joined a weight loss challenge at work. My Sisters-in-law and mother-in-law wondered why on earth I would do such a thing. I love them dearly. One SIL is a little more annoying than the other, but I seriously love and cherish them. After I'd lost about 10 pounds I was at my MIL's house (where the slightly more annoying SIL also lives). My MIL said "I can see you've lost weight, now stop". I was still in the overweight range, and even now that I'm (barely) in the healthy range, my bodyfat percent is certainly too high. So now, I'm more about strength and endurance than numbers on a scale. I also am about pants sizes.

Here's the thing, though. My husband was previously married to a seriously eating disordered individual who was, to put it objectively, skanky as well. I think that my MIL loves me and loves her son, and doesn't want to see me do what the ex did. To her, she has this PTSD reaction all wrapped up with skinny, ho-like, mind-game filled b!tch. Mostly I'm not like any of those things. So she says what she says I smile and nod and do what I want to do. My sisters-in-law have busy lives that exhaust them. They don't see any time in their life to change how they look and feel, and probably my choice to do differently calls into question their choices, which is uncomfortable for them. Plus it is a little funny the first time or two to say, "I believe the only time to run is when someone is chasing me". I can respond, "if someone is chasing me I want to know that I can 1) outrun them, or 2) beat the bloody hell out of them if they catch me" hence, I exercise.

Plus my MIL has spinal stenosis and diabetes and other problems associated with the American diet and lack of exercise. I love her and want her to be healthy, and her daughters see the same thing I do. It inspires me to maintain my fitness and flexiblity. I suspect for at least one SIL, it provides an excuse "that runs in my family, there's no way to avoid it". Ok, if that helps you sleep at night, fine. But when I saw my dad unable to put his socks on without assistance, I decided it was time to lose weight.

Otherwise, I don't have people in my life who feel comfortable with commenting negatively on my eating or body shape and size. I wouldn't allow people like that in my life any more than they would need to be. I would figure that anyone who does feel free to make comments like that is doing it for their own reasons, like my mother-in-law and sisters-in-law.

I understand what you're going through - the worst is when your own family doesn't support you KNOWING you're trying to make changes for the better in your life. My mom is constantly making dinners laden with fat and butter and cheese and salt - its terrible! And she knows that for the past year and a half I've started eating healthy and exercising a great deal to get in shape. She'll also go to the grocery store and buy all these tempting foods - Tastycakes, potato chips, poptarts, etc. - and buys like 2 apples. Really, Ma?

Its frustrating because I feel like sometimes the people around me are working against me instead of with me. You just have to "keep calm and carry on" with your life change.

Best of luck!!

All the time!

But I embrace it, I love the teases and jabs.

That means that they're either mirnin' or jelly...either or puts a smile on my face.