I go to the gym on campus because it's free. However, it's filled to the brim with sorority girls ambling on the treadmill in full make-up as they idly flip through a magazine.
The first time I started losing weight and was at the gym lifting, I overheard two girls with their two pound weights making snide remarks not very quietly. One verbatim was, "If I was that fat, I would be so embarrassed to even be at the gym".
Man, it felt good when two very attractive and well known guys came up and starting talking to me (they were on the football team). I tutor for the athletic department, and at the time the guys were always willing to give me pointers in the gym. Anyway, they came up and I tossed out, "Not doing too bad for a fatty, am I ladies?" Let's just say they turned red and jetted out fairly quickly.
Point is, there are always people that suck and are awful people. But they will always be awful people, and you are awesome people. I'm not saying that these things don't sting, but the sassy part of me won't let them get me down.
Its really sad the kind of example that woman is setting for her daughters, but do not let STUPID people like that stop your progress. You keep up the good work!!!
And I agree with the others, try not to let that ***** get to you. I also agree she is teaching her kids to be snobs (not a very good mother) and what I'm concerned with is, those kids would probably rather starve themselves in the future rather than have an ounce of fat, just to keep on Mommy's good side. It's sad.
Kudos to you for having the guts to join a gym. A lot of people wouldn't.
Even though all of us have not met face to face it feels good to know we are all behind each other. And I think of that when I walk through those gym doors. Thanks again so much for the encouragement! You all are great! We shall succeed!!!!
Knowing me, and I happen to know I'm a little s**t, about the time she rolled her eyes, I would have run over and asked(with all the phony a**ed sincerity I could muster) if she were having a stroke. Then, turned to her DDs and told them to go get help and call 911. But, I'm kind of rotten that way.
While I know it's best to not give any validation to people like that, given that I have a big mouth that is usually in overdrive and a brain that is in neutral, I would have probably said something like, "I can lose weight, but you'll always be an ignorant snob!" Or, "watch out for the lights, your nose is so far in the air you might burn it getting out of the building."
