Musical Missy
Full Member
I've made a conscious decision not to tell everyone about me starting LL (on Monday - weirdly I'm really excited - I seem to have been waiting forever to start!) as I know from past experience people like to make comments that just end up making me feel stupid – like I’m not capable of making a reasoned logical decision on my own. Last week I told a really good friend of mine about me starting LL imminently and of the 6 or so friends/family members I’ve told, he had by far the most negative reaction, the last thing I expected from him. It actually quite upset me and even made me re-think my reasons for starting LL in the first place (needless to say I still 100% want to do this and am more than sure that this is the right decision for me)
Yesterday (after not discussing it for a few days) we had another talk about it and he apologised for the negative reaction and said it was only because he was worried about me and because he doesn’t know anything about the diet. So I sent him a link to the LL website so he could read up on it and also explained to him about how although it’s probably difficult for someone like him (thin) to understand why anyone would want to do something so extreme, its also the only way I’m going to ever be happy. After reading all the stuff on the website (and the things I said to him I would hope) he’s now said he will support me 100% and if it makes me happy, then he will be happy too and how he can’t wait to go out at Christmas with a happier, healthier and significantly smaller me! For some reason this has made me so much more positive about starting LL but also I now feel under pressure. What happens if I put myself through this and it doesn’t work? What happens if I don’t lose the vast amounts of weight that every other LL person seems to have lost?? Am I going to get ‘I told you so’s’ from everyone?
Am I the only one who’s feeling under pressure for this diet to be the one that works?
MM
Yesterday (after not discussing it for a few days) we had another talk about it and he apologised for the negative reaction and said it was only because he was worried about me and because he doesn’t know anything about the diet. So I sent him a link to the LL website so he could read up on it and also explained to him about how although it’s probably difficult for someone like him (thin) to understand why anyone would want to do something so extreme, its also the only way I’m going to ever be happy. After reading all the stuff on the website (and the things I said to him I would hope) he’s now said he will support me 100% and if it makes me happy, then he will be happy too and how he can’t wait to go out at Christmas with a happier, healthier and significantly smaller me! For some reason this has made me so much more positive about starting LL but also I now feel under pressure. What happens if I put myself through this and it doesn’t work? What happens if I don’t lose the vast amounts of weight that every other LL person seems to have lost?? Am I going to get ‘I told you so’s’ from everyone?
Am I the only one who’s feeling under pressure for this diet to be the one that works?
MM