I stopped into Albertson’s to get some food items
for the Hawaiian party. I spotted some
WW members who I used to see at the Monday night meeting. The first words out of her mouth after I said
hello was, “this is diet.” She held up her Starbucks frappuccino. In other hand she held up a bag of pretzels
and said, “this isn’t diet.”
People are funny.
I’ve gained 30 pounds since August of 2013 and clearly I am in no
position to make a judgment call (well at least vocalize that judgment call) towards
anybody that no longer attends a WW meeting or re-gained some/all of their
weight. I’ve heard stories of WW leaders
having WW members make a u-turn in the isle at the grocery store. You can’t help but just laugh.
After she cleared her conscious I simply said, “yum.
I love Starbucks and you have to live a little.” I’m not sure if she was convinced by my
answer because she also shared with me the PPVs of her drink. Little did she know I was there buying two
pints of sorbet and a half gallon of ice cream.
If she had spotted me first I wouldn’t have cared enough to explain why
I was buying ice cream unless asked.
My sister Jenny and Hailey were helping with set-up
before the party started. Jenny said our
four year old niece Emma asked her, “when
are you going to lose weight?” I’m
not sure where or why Emma came up this question and I don’t think she was
trying to be mean about it. I explained
the above story to Jenny and Hailey.
Hailey said, “you don’t look like
you’ve gained 30 pounds.” Jenny said
“gaining only 30 pounds in that amount of
time is still good.”
Once the positive comments following weight loss
start to dwindle it is easy to be hyper sensitive about weight gain. You worry that everybody notices and it makes
you sometimes feel the need to rationalize your food choices. There isn’t a need to rationalize
anything. If what you are eating makes
you happy then it isn’t anybody’s business to make you feel otherwise.
I learned long ago you can’t judge anything by what
you see in just one meal.
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