The lie of omission does not bother me. I do not feel I am entitled to the information. It’s rude and invasive that they are even asked. |
I have seriously mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, your hard work is bringing you a result you like and pride in your discipline, and I think it would be perfectly appropriate for you to get compliments for those things. (Well done, btw!) On the other hand, I think there are folks who believe that weight loss somehow doesn't count or is less helpful to the person losing weight if there isn't suffering involved. Attaching virtue to weight is hugely problematic. Only after my wife started taking these medications did she realize just how different a body's signals could be surrounding food and hunger. I wasn't disciplined and she wasn't weak. My body and mind just send me wildly different signals about food than hers does in the absence of medication. The insistent demands her body was making were feeble requests in my body. With the medications, it's an entirely different playing field and has nothing to do with discipline or virtue. |
Thank you. It's interesting that you say this. I have been skinny most of my life and had never worked at it or counted calories. Only in the last few years I have I started gaining weight. When I was skinny, I never liked people commenting on my body. I didn't do anything to be skinny so it just felt rude. I never blamed people for being overweight because I could see that I was just lucky. Now I actually feel healthier than I was before, even though I am heavier (but losing weight slowly) and I feel great, so I guess that drives my desire for the compliments lol |
THIS. I don't care how others lose weight or feel entitled to info. I very much get annoyed when people sell workout plans, waist trainers, and detox teas but they've had surgeries or on lost weight from wegovy but never disclosed. That's just false advertisement. |
+100 Or act like it’s so easy- I just started lifting weights (when they dropped 30-40 pounds) in 4 months due to Ozempic (plenty of celebs). It’s kind of like the ones that sweat they never had a facelift or filler or Botox…and they are completely disfigured at 50-70 compare to their 40-year old face. |
+1 |
She actually said awhile back that she had the gastric sleeve surgery. |