fit4tina's Journal

Jealousy
Nov 03 2009 23:10

How do you deal with jealousy?  I have a friend that seems to be jealous of my weight loss.  At least, that's what I think.  Whenever we eat together, she makes little comments that seem to jab at my diet.  Things like, "oh, so now we don't eat cheese"...when I order my veggie sub sans cheese.  Or, "no, you can't have a chip, you're on a DIET".  I try to ignore it, but when they do it over and over, it's a little annoying.  A few times I've caved and went off my diet.  But, that's not really fair to me...I'm working hard.  How do I get others to see that I am not losing weight to spite them or throw it in their face, I'm doing it for myself because I don't want to be plagued with gerd, ibs, or diabetes like I was trending.  I was only up to 175 and already faced with these problems at only 30yrs old.  I don't want to be disabled by 50 like my mom.  So, I have to fight to change my lifestyle.  Why don't the people I love understand this?  Especially when they saw how sick I was all the time when I was overweight and eating nothing but junk...

For the first time in 4 years I'm at a healthy BMI and a healthy weight.  I rarely trigger my gerd, have no more IBS, migraines or bellyaches.  And I have no one to share this joy with...