Critical Family + eggs!

It's never a good thing when the people surrounding you don't offer the support you need! Keep doing what you're doing - if it gets bad perhaps you can tell them you're not feeling supported and that you're on a journey to better health? Think about how great you're going to look very soon and the looks on their faces when they realise you've done it!

Eggs are AWESOME.

Easter eggs maybe...but eggs? The're fantastic! Eat em up!

It doesn't matter what I do, my family just don't support me. I can kinda handle that part, its the criticizing that I can't. This morning after my run I made scrambled eggs (1 egg, 1 white) on a slice of wholemeal bread. My brother goes "Eggs make you put on weight, not lose it". Grrrrrrrrrrrr!

my mum does the same thing.
she tells me that eggs are bad for you, that cheese is bad for you? c'mon it's called protein!

i have lost 15kg this way and she is jellie cos she has tried to lose weight so many times through the wrong procedures (eg cutting out carbs, hcg) and this is the first time i ever tried to lose weight as well.

Just smile and say, who says I am trying to lose weight? I am just eating heatlhy! Same thing when you have comments about exercise. Just doing it because IT FEELS GOOD!!
That will make them step back a little!

Consider yourself lucky, you are not going to be the one to marry his sorry *kitten*.

I have a co-worker who is the same way. He lost about 50 lbs on Medifast last year (no bread, eat their expensive prepackaged food diet) and has since gained a bunch back since he began eating real food again. Everytime he sees me eat, he makes some snarky comment-"oh, a chicken sandwhich on a bun can't be good for your diet"... I always snap back at him that I can do what I want as long as I stay under my calorie goal, but he always has a nasty comeback. I've managed to lose 22.5 lbs, I think I'm doing pretty darn good- I don't eat unhealthy often, but every time I do, he has something nasty to say!

I've decided it is just jealousy- my weight loss is a result of diet and exercise- healthy lifestyle changes, not some pre-packaged cardboard food and a bunch of pills!

I'll sure your family is just jealous, or maybe they are so used to you filling the roll of "fat person" in the family and are afraid of how your healthier living will affect them-

In either case- you stick to your guns- you are doing a great thing, keep it up!!!! :bigsmile:

i know many people that are like this. when i mention oh i had this amazing this or this was what i had for supper or my breakfast shake is made from this.

I get responses like you eat peanut butter every day. oh thats not healthy. or eggs are bad, or you shouldn't eat this or that cause it doesn't help you lose weight. A guy i work with is the biggest know it all ive ever met. So changing my life was tough because he was going to one up me and tell me all he knows. im down 40 lbs now and have done it my way. when i hear him tell me something about health i just smile half assed because as ive lost 40 lbs recently hes been gaining weight and alot of it.

you know what your doing. you haven't gone into this blindly. you have done your research. you are learning what you can and cant eat, what you should and shouldn't eat. most people who spout off like your brother have nothing to back up what they say other then they heard that eggs are bad for you. you now know way more then he does about food and your eating habits because you have been doing this for a while. you have learned how to lose weight and eat healthy. just dismiss what your brother says because your doing it right and doing a good job at that. no need to make smart jabs or digs at him, let him be ignorant if he wants to be ignorant. you could offer to teach him why eggs aren't as bad as what he believes and show him what you know, but i doubt he really cares that much.