First off, congrats to all of you for staying with this thread and for the weight you have lost. I myself am “Atkinsing” again, now that my gouty arthritis is under control. (I am watching the red meat intake, and I’m staying away from red wine, as well as taking Allopurinol to reduce the uric acid).
Now to the reason for my post…
I overheard the above statement at work. It was made about the woman I am now “seeing”. (It’s not love. It’s “a loving friendship”, according to her;)).
Anyway, this lady recently underwent a radical “makeover”. She got nipped and tucked and lost a lot of weight very fast. She did it the right way, too: with Weight Watchers, and she has every reason to be proud of herself. But she cannot get herself stopped, and she obsesses about everything that she puts gginto her mouth!
For example, if she goes out to eat with me, she will eat and seem to enjoy a nice meal, but all the way home she talks about how she should never have ordered what she did, and how she will have to power-walk it off the next morning.
Friends, she is already in a calorie deficit, and whatever good she did with the facelift, she is now destroying with that gaunt, pale, and yes, sick look that she carries around with her. And for all that exercising she does, she has very little energy and her immune level is at the point to where if she sees a patient with a cold, she’s very likely to take that cold home with her.
I have tried talking to her, to no avail. She doesn’t listen, oftentimes interrupting me with a change of subject, so I’ve stopped. I have also stopped asking her out to eat, although we still go to a movie from time to time. She doesn’t wanna hear about “maintaining” and it’s just as if she’s a kind of “anorexic” without the puking.
She used to be “svelte”, and yeah, she could have used a few pounds off her, but this is too much.
I just needed to share that little bit of mundane stuff with y’all, if only to point out that, “Hey! That’s enough, okay?”
Quasi