Reply to Would this be an obnoxious social media post?

Forum Index » Diet, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Reply to "Would this be an obnoxious social media post?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Focusing on the "doing it the old fashioned" way is the obnoxious part. You can be proud of yourself without being overtly judgemental about people who are/were just like you but have a harder time with the traditional methods of weight loss relative to you. [/quote]

This. That’s great that you’re feeling so proud of your efforts and how you look and feel. AND it’s not a good look to come off as being better than those who have used other ways to lose weight.

Post a fabulous picture of yourself with something about how you’re loving life at 50. Do NOT include any information about how you achieved it “the old fashioned way” without meds, surgery, etc. [/quote]

This is just such nonsense. You people are making OP's accomplishments about everyone else and are taking away from OP -- just like you claim she would be doing by noting she lost weight without surgery or pills. OP's intended social media post - on her own social media account, not butting in on someone else's announcement - is about HER and should be about her. I guess it would be fine for her to post how she lost and maintained if she used meds; but since she managed to do it without technological medical interventions, she needs to just shut-up?!

OP - celebrate yourself and your hard work. If your friends are offended that you were successful with hard work, that's your friends' problem. Personally, I would appreciate the inspiration and the hope and encouragement that your story would provide me.
[/quote]

I posted above that OP should say what she actually did and not just “old fashioned way” because it is still framed against the “newer” ways and not solely about what OP did.

I suppose I should be surprised by the reactions here, but I am -[b] if OP had taken wegovy and wanted to post that, I am skeptical she would have received any pushback or comments that her post was showy or obnoxious or whatever.[/b] [/quote]

Personally I am against posts about weight loss of any kind. If my friend is proud of their weight loss I’m usually not going to validate that in and of itself. Chances are I liked my friend before, too, and don’t want to imply that they are “better” now. [/quote]

If my friend is proud of doing something healthy, I would validate it. It has nothing to do with whether thinking or implying that she is better now than before. If OP had 60 pounds to lose, chances are she really improved so many aspects of her life. It’s totally fine to give her kudos. People are very weird about weight. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics