Step 1 Sole Source Why do people do this?!!

[cwp2014]

I still fancy the odd G&T or glass of red though. Nothing else tastes quite like it! But I definitely don't NEED it.

Oh wow so with you on this!!!!

 

[cwp2014]

Don't loose too much. You'll look ill. My reply: so slim healthy people all look ill do they? My thoughts: so if you have such concern over my weight and my body, WHY DIDNT YOU TELL ME I WAS GETTING FAT!!! Too many people comment on the losses and never the gains! And what right has someone got to tell ME what I should or should not weigh? Can you tell this comment bothers me lol

This made me laugh. Another one I haven't had yet!!

 

[cwp2014]

You guys have me actually laughing!! It is rude emma, you're so right, but all this stuff just rolls off their tongues like nothing. Like unless you're actually calling a fat person fat, then anything else fine to say!!

 

[Tiggemma]

I only have one person who told me I was getting fat(ter). He was right I was. Because of him I did something about it. If someone is my friend they should be able to tell me my seams are straining, especially if they think it's ok to tell me I'm not eating enough/properly or whatever. Interestingly I have a whole group of friends who clearly ignored my weight gain quite studiously (they never mentioned it once) now I've got 10lbs to go to my goal they are studiously ignoring the weight loss. So I mentioned it and they were really weirdly relieved that I had and then they said I was looking good. Strange how some people react to others finding their slimselves.

 

[Kiwichan]

OMG you're so right. No I do not look ill. I have not lost too much weight anf I am in fact still overweight!!!!! I heard one of my friends tell someone on the phone that she looks like the rest of us now. I didnt know how to take it. Did I not before?

 

[LizzRob]

What a weird thing to say about you. You're not alien!!! You haven't suddenly become a woman after years of being a man. I'm not sure how I'd take that comment either....probably with a 2 finger salut as I online shop for size 10 clothes lol

 

[LizzRob]

Just had a new one!!!!

"Well what happens to your teeth, isn't it bad for them you not chewing?"

So being overweight is ok, but not chewing because of my teeth (even though I now brush them 3 times a day) is bad?

 

[Kiwichan]

i don't know what people are thinking sometimes. You'd love to play back conversations to them sometimes.

 

[Tiggemma]

Wow Lizzrob that is really weird. We aren't rats we don't need to gnaw things to keep out teeth in check! People are so strange.

 

[LizzRob]

And that was from my bet morbidly obese mom!

Another one was she wouldn't do the diet because of the excess skin! She'd prefer to be overweight.

I wanted to say 'mom, overweight was something you flew through in the 80's. Morbidly obese is what you are now. Excess skin won't kill you'

Funny old woman

 

[brighton_chick]

And that was from my bet morbidly obese mom! Another one was she wouldn't do the diet because of the excess skin! She'd prefer to be overweight. I wanted to say 'mom, overweight was something you flew through in the 80's. Morbidly obese is what you are now. Excess skin won't kill you' Funny old woman

Haha omg that cracked me up! Flew through in the 80's lol- laughing my socks off in the library!
My mums the same, she's not morbidly obese but she's got a belly on her but she always says 'at my age you have to choose between the face and the body- fat on your face irons out the wrinkles and you can't see my bum on my passport photo so who cares'

 

[LizzRob]

Hahaha that's genius too!!!! My mom would say the same as she has no wrinkles (on her face) at 63. She just has loads of cellulite instead! Go mom!

I should note, I do love her, but she can't really have a dig at me for dieting just because she won't! I've even given her some shakes from another diet as a meal replacement....a week ago...she's not had a single 1!

 

[brighton_chick]

Lol! I think it is difficult when people are giving you a hard time over it, and when they are big/bigger themselves then it feels worse! Unfortunately I've come to realise that everyone has to do things when they're ready. This diet takes a lot of will power so until you're completely committed to change then it's not going to happen- it's an all or nothing job this weight loss thing lol!

 

[LizzRob]

I just let people comment now and ignore them. I know this is right for me, and I don't care what people think.

They won't judge me when I'm slim!! Lol

 

[Tiggemma]

One of my least favourite things is when you have lost some weight and it is easy for everyone to see it, they then feel the need to offer you food every 5 minutes! Polite no thank yous can quickly get very boring! And it's always accompanied by 'only one' or 'everyone's having some'.

 

[cwp2014]

At work today I had.... "just a bit?" "A little piece?" "What if I cut it in half?"

NO!! I DON'T WANT THE CAKE!!!

I also had some very condescending looks. And a smug colleague who was so happy to tell me his friend did CWP, lost 4st and put it all back on 6months after finishing. I've given up telling people I'm losing weight for health reasons now.
I've said I'm just 'resetting the clock'. So I can start power eating again.

Bizarrely people are happier with this as my reasoning and have less to say then when I say it's to improve my quality of life/health!! How weird is that??!

 

[LizzRob]

I've had to explain it to people more this time round than the last!

And for those that have comments about putting the weight back on....I went from a 20 to a 10, to a 14 and I have maintained at a 14 for 5 years so tell the haters that it does work!!!!

 

[cwp2014]

Lizz can you come to my office next week? Every time someone says something stupid I'll direct then your way!!!

 

[Chartreuse]

So glad you started this thread! My colleague is insisting on repeatedly criticising the plan and her latest is 'it's scientifically impossible to go from 440 calories to 800 and still lose weight'. Er, calories in less than calories used = weight loss, right? Also, I'm still socialising but find that other people are unsettled by me not drinking or eating more than I am. I'm just fine with a glass of water, as long as the company is good.

 

[Knkse5]

I knew my work mates would slate the diet and put me off so I have told them I am losing all this weight with exercise and eating healthy!!! At lunch when they ask what I have I say oh some soup or a turkey sandwich- then I sneak off and have a nice chocolate shake

Keeps them off my back and means I can diet without them judging and moaning at me!!!