So I need advice. Weight loss and life. long

  • So I have been on this journey for awhile and I have lost some weight. Love it! I have changed my bad habits I have, except for the occasional slip up. I have been shrinking too which is awesome. I live with my sister. It is a great arrangement for both of us. She was able to finish her basement and I was able to get out of a bad apartment and a bad area of our town. I am married, but my hubs is deployed so it's nice not coming home to an empty house. All this said I think she might be jealous. All our lives she's been the 'pretty one' basically one uping me all the time. Which I sat back and was ok with it after I realized that it wasn't going to change and I could just change the way I reacted to it. Yes it took me until I was about 16, but it came and I am happy about it.

    So now I am thriving in the weight loss and becoming just a better person as a whole. I am in a routine of getting my weight off and in a routine of working out. I just FEEL good. I am starting to fit into smaller sized and am about 3 sizes away from hers. I think she might be getting jealous at the attention I am getting from family and others when we go out?

    Well she started working at the gymnastics club about a week before and asked if I wanted to work there for some extra cash and just something to do, I said sure if you wouldn't care that I am there. She said no she didn't and welcomed me there. So fast forward 3 months and I am working 5 days a week and doing all different classes and some competitive team coaching. I was offered a great job as an assistant director at the club. I thought about it for weeks before I even approached my husband about it. We talked and said it would be a good idea. So I accepted the job.

    My sister has a full time job at the school and is just doing this on the side. Well she is pissed and says it's weird for her to work under me and she isn't really under me. I don't make decisions for her job and I don't make decisions for her hours. I just assist in the competition teams and help make office decisions. I understand it's weird for your younger sister to be advancing, but shouldn't she be even a little happy for me. I work a ton more hours than her and she has said she only wanted to do team and work two days a week. Why can't she just suck it up and be happy for me like I was always happy for her when she out did me?
  • Congrats on choosing to change your habits and got sucked into healthy lifestyle!=3

    Anyway...maybe she is a bit jealous about it? Since when you guys were younger, she has always been the one who gets the attention more than you. And now that you are becoming comfortable with everything and also confident in yourself, the blessings came to you. But don't be held back by her. It's your life and not yours so go for that position. You deserve it. If she still acts weird/not supportive about this...have a heart to heart talk with her.
  • My sisters treat me the same way. Even though I will never get near their sizes, one is a 00 and the other is a size 4. But everyone always says that I am the prettiest of the 3. And they don't like that because they think that they are prettier just because they are tiny. So my whole life they have degraded me and made my self esteem slim to none. But now as we are all getting older, they are getting over it. So just ignore her and live your life for you and do what makes you happy. She should be proud of your achievements and support you.
  • Well, she's human. Hopefully she just needs a little time to adjust, assuming you're not doing anything to make her feel bad (doesn't sound like you are).