Do you openly talk about it?

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Registered: 08-31-2004
Do you openly talk about it?
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Mon, 12-06-2004 - 7:37pm
Do you openly talk about your weight with your friends and family?
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Registered: 10-20-2004
Mon, 12-06-2004 - 8:40pm
I for the most part do talk about it openly
i dont really with my family because the are like weight crazy type people and then if i tell them that i am doing something new or im trying to lose weight then thats all they want to talk about and it drives me nuts but with my roomates and most of my friends it is an open topic that i dont mind talking about
but then again i love when i see people that i havent seen in awhile and they ask me if i have lost weight or mention that i have then i tend to love to talk about it ;)
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Registered: 06-13-2004
Mon, 12-06-2004 - 9:56pm

Talk about what????!!! Being fat??? Who, me??
if I talk about it then its true!!!

bwa-ha-ha!
I rarely talk about it with anyone outside my mother. She has been "helping" me lose weight since I was eleven, hasn't exactly worked yet.

I have only started talking about it with my boyfriend in the last four months. He is insistant that I shouldn't diet for him (this part I had to laugh at, because I had been dieting for thirteen years before I even met him!!!) because he likes me the way I am. I am quite sure he would also like me a little sleeker. He tells me that now, after losing about 20ishplus pounds, I look more "dry". (as opposed to wet??)

I know, deep down, that if I had an easier time talking about EVERYTHING including the things and people that piss me off, I would not have to eat away my feelings.

so hello ladies... I AM FAT!!! And I am OPEN AND HONESTLY telling you this!!!

----kristrin

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Registered: 07-16-2004
Mon, 12-06-2004 - 10:16pm

Before I started to lose the weight it was always skirted around and never talked about.

But I found the more I talked about it the more accountable I became....so now I talk about weight loss, struggles and, most importantly, exercise whenever I can.

Plus, I find the more I talk about exercising with friends, coworkers, family, etc. the more it pushes me to actually do it.

I've gotten better with it....funny enough, now that I'm talking about it more my family and friends are talking about it as well.

Cheers
Lisa

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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 6:41am
Unfortunatly I like to talk. I work in grocery store and everyone knows that I am trying to get my act together. I talk to everyone about weight and curves. My poor customers probably think I am crazy. When you are 240 its not like they can't see that you are fat!! LOL. I don't care who thinks I am trying not eat that cookie or piece of candy. And when I do eat something that I really shouldn't no one says anything. :-)Stephanie
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Registered: 09-15-2004
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 9:22am

I always complained about my weight to my friends and family, and I would very often make derogatory comments (fat jokes) about myself in front of other people. I guess I figured that if I said it frist, then it wouldn't mean as much if someone else made a comment about it, ya know? Then when I finally made the decision to lose the weight, I told my close friends and my family, so now they're always asking me how everything is going, how much I've lost, etc, which is pretty cool. Everyone at work knows, too, and for the most part everyone is really supportive, except there are a couple of people who keep trying to sabotage me by offering me french fries at lunch, or bringing in Krispy Kreme donuts and waving them in front of my face. But I don't mind talking about it at all, actually I like the attention I've been getting because of it!

Aggie
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Registered: 05-17-2004
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 10:20am

I talk about now more than I used to.

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Fear

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Registered: 08-31-2004
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 10:21am

I realized that there is someone that I cant openly talk about my weight with...my step FIL.

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Registered: 10-09-2004
Tue, 12-07-2004 - 12:06pm

I just tell the folks around me "don't make the fat lady mad" and make jokes about myself. I think it makes them more at ease with my fat.

Have you ever noticed how some people look at you and act like they will get fat if they get to close???? Hello! this is not a virus!

Rude people I usually tell them...."yes..I made fun of a fat lady once and I woke up like this!" In a whistful voice...Let them go home and think about that!

Sussie_Q

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Tue, 12-07-2004 - 12:57pm
I use to never want to talk about my weight ,My father ,daughter and husband ,always use to comment on it and I shrunk from going anywhere ,didn't go to parties i was invited to ,stopped walking,just became a hermit and now I'm atleast 70 more pounds than when I first hybernated .well I fineally went to work last year again and there was a dear lady that made me start feeling good about me again ....and now I've found this boaurd and plan on checking everyday.....now I talk about my fat but it's like in a joking way ,to make people laugh with me instead of at me ...I'm really going to try and lose ,becase I want to live a HEALTHY LIFESYLE. thanks for being here Barb

Barb