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I'm 30 yrs old, 5'4", 180 lb, size 14/16. I'm not morbidly obese or anything, but I'm not healthy at this point in my life. I finally decided it's time to lose some weight and get back in shape. I used to exercise regularly and eat healthy, but over the last few years I've just eaten whatever I wanted and have been pretty sedentary.
I'm stocky, carry my extra weight pretty well and am good at hiding it with the clothes I wear. I've had a lot of patients and coworkers ask if I played softball in high school because I just have that body type. If I worked out, I think I could develop good muscle tone pretty easily. Lately whenever I tell family or friends about my weight loss plans, they usually say things like, "Why do you want to lose weight? You look fine." Then they want to go out to eat and get upset if I try to order something healthy!
This drives me crazy! I'm not fine, I feel tired all the time, my heart rate is always in the 100's, and I'm overweight! I appreciate that people think I look good the way I am and that they're trying to be nice, but this does not help me. For one thing, it makes me feel like it's okay if I just go back to eating junk and laying around which is not acceptable. It also makes me feel like I have some kind of body image problem, which I know isn't true but it bothers me when people say I look fine.
Has anyone else had this problem when trying to lose weight? How did you deal with it?
I'm 30 yrs old, 5'4", 180 lb, size 14/16. I'm not morbidly obese or anything, but I'm not healthy at this point in my life. I finally decided it's time to lose some weight and get back in shape. I used to exercise regularly and eat healthy, but over the last few years I've just eaten whatever I wanted and have been pretty sedentary.
I'm stocky, carry my extra weight pretty well and am good at hiding it with the clothes I wear. I've had a lot of patients and coworkers ask if I played softball in high school because I just have that body type. If I worked out, I think I could develop good muscle tone pretty easily. Lately whenever I tell family or friends about my weight loss plans, they usually say things like, "Why do you want to lose weight? You look fine." Then they want to go out to eat and get upset if I try to order something healthy!
This drives me crazy! I'm not fine, I feel tired all the time, my heart rate is always in the 100's, and I'm overweight! I appreciate that people think I look good the way I am and that they're trying to be nice, but this does not help me. For one thing, it makes me feel like it's okay if I just go back to eating junk and laying around which is not acceptable. It also makes me feel like I have some kind of body image problem, which I know isn't true but it bothers me when people say I look fine.
Has anyone else had this problem when trying to lose weight? How did you deal with it?
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