Is your friendship sabotaging your weight loss?

Knock the tall poppy!  It’s such a shame that we don’t cheer on people that are successful, instead we knock them and try and sabotage their success.  Yes a generalisation and a pretty broad statement but as a Fitness Professional I see it every day.

Taking the first step to lose weight can be a challenge and we know the obvious ones.  A challenge that we don’t prepare for is our friends sabotaging us.  Friends are used to sharing a piece of cake or indulging in chocolate with you.  If you honestly look at some of your friendships you enable each other with your eating.  The friendship is based around food and feeling better about eating food you know you probably shouldn’t but you have someone eating it with you so it must be ok! 

You make a conscious decision to improve your life and change your eating but your friend no longer has an eating buddy and doesn’t know how to cope.  Their goal is to get you back to the old friend as quickly as possible, they may not realise they are doing this but they are feeling lost.  For example you are at a party and are trying to eat well, stay on track and remain focussed on your goals. Friends that are used to you eating junk food will constantly try and get you to have ‘just one piece’ or ‘just one bite’ and they can be very determined, there is nothing quite like peer pressure.  What do I do you ask.....Use strategies like I will in a minute I’m just going to the loo, or I will just get a drink first and put some distance even for a minute between you, them and the food.  Chances are they will forget about you not having shared in their treasure trove of snacks.

Other saboteurs take form in the ‘that’s crazy, your being ridiculous’ why are you going to the gym, waste of time and money.  These types are often jealous, just ignore them, hold your head high and be proud.

People generally don’t like change, you have made an important step to improve your lifestyle and you should be congratulated.  It won’t be long before they start saying you look amazing and are asking how did you do it.

 

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