I have read many times on weight loss boards about people who had difficulties and struggles with their newfound change. It seems as others in their lives are not always happy with the psychological and emotional adjustments one goes through after losing a lot of weight. If you haven’t found yourself there yet, just hold tight because chances are, you will experience it to some degree at a point of your weight loss journey.
One thing that happens is that one’s opinion of self increases. This means that I’m not willing to allow myself to be treated poorly by others any longer. I come to the place where I “allow” myself to be treated with respect and want better things out of life.
In my own life, I was a people pleaser. I let people’s opinions matter. They controlled what I did, how I lived my life, and I couldn’t stand the thought of someone being upset with me or having an ill opinion. But now, I am getting to the point, finally, where I don’t want to care anymore about what others think, say or do.
People are always trying to offer their stinky advice and opinions… quite frankly, I don’t want it! I made a decision: I am going to live MY life. No one else’s. And maybe this is just a normal realization that every adult comes to… perhaps its got nothing at all to do with being overweight… but it appears to me that its part of my progress in the journey…. Yes I have some critics over some choices I recently made… but those decisions have made me very happy and I am fully aware that there may be repercussions. Isn’t that part of being an adult… making decisions and yet at the same time being responsible for your actions? AND let me just also add… I love those whose criticisms have come. But I am not living my life for them. I am living my life for me.
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