why to people say that?!?!

[sombersusie]

Re: why to people say that?!?!

thankfully most of my relatives realize that the weight im losing makes me look and feel better so they aren't going to screw that up for me. However just yesterday my brother made the comment he felt bad eating 'normal' stuff in front of me. I was like why? I really don't want the normal stuff anymore, im fine with what im getting and its way better for me.
as for that 'you'll be fat forever' comment, don't believe it for a second! You can overcome this and drop the weight, atkins gives you that control. Stay strong girl, you can do it!

[Austlyn]

Re: why to people say that?!?!

A guy friend ??? And he called you fat?? He knows you are now looking to good to be worthy of him. I mean that too!

[kibskix]

Re: why to people say that?!?!

People are more comfortable with the idea of how you can't lose weight unless you stop eating. Who talks crap about Slimfast? Nobody! Doesn't matter that you're drinking a mixture of unnatural things for 2 meals a day that taste like a pharmacy floor. Its "Good for you" But get your energy from good fat sources and tell people you can have steak or hamburgers if you want, and the idiots come out of the woodwork.
The problem I find most often is that people want to believe the misinformed hype, and dont LISTEN to the ones actually doing it right. My dad thinks he's doing atkins just because he has atkins bars and diet coke in his house (that he doesnt eat)
Did I mention his atkins bars are right next to a BIG sams club box of nestle smore's bars? Yeah.
I'm thankful for my DH. Even though he isn't dieting or doing atkins, he's been asking me a lot of questions and i've been keeping him up to date on what im eating and what i've lost. His main concern is cholesterol, he thinks it would go too high eating atkins. So I sent him a link about it from here but I dont think he read it. I keep urging him to come on here and look around, but I dont think he's quite ready to give up his goodies yet.
I've thankfully never gotten too much flack from people, last time when I lost weight my friends all asked me how I did it and they seemed halfway interested, but not to my surprise, no one stuck with it.