Negative people in your life???
 

I realized that it wasn't so much that I need and want to lose this weight but that the negative people in my life(in-laws) really don't want me to succeed and that itself is defeating. Anyone have that out there? Last year my husband(their God) decided to quit smoking and started the new Chantix, we had them over that particular weekend(which was the hardest time of the program) and they smoked near him and were trying to coax him into"just one".
So this past weekend my husband happened to mention that I'm gearing up to do WW again and I caught the not-so-discreet eye roll. That hurt. And this is family-close family. I don't feel like being judged by them-they certainly don't live in glass houses. Sorry ya'll just getting it off my chest. I must keep focusing on that this is for my and my family. Talk to ya.

Well, at least you already know that they are the kind of people who would try to push their son into one more cigarette. Sometimes, half the battle is identifying the enemy. I know you have to keep peace, up to a point, in a family, but you can plan ahead not to let them get to you, and to expect them to try. Just remind yourself that it comes from their own unhappiness.

Future size 6 - Don't you let them get to you!!!! They sound like the kind of people who because they don't try anything out of the norm, they are jelous when other people do!

My in-laws were very skeptable when I started WW the first time. They had a thousand reasons on why I didn't need weight watchers and how it is just a scam for money. We'll....I showed them and lost the weight! Now my mother-in-law is a die hard WW!!!!

More power to you to have people around you like that....prove their eye rolls wrong!!!!

Hey!! Feelin' ya here,but with me it wasn't so much my inlaws,but outlaws,AKA; "FLESH AND BLOOD" of course my whole family except for one sissy,who is my fave, they are all negative and it's almost like they are not happy unless you are miserable and it's not just the weight loss,it's everything from going out on the weekends to getting a different car a new job...VACATION!!! Dh and I have to plan secretly,because we get talked about for going on vacation!!!We laugh it off but it really gets my goat ya know...people have started to "notice" I'm losing a little and the first thing they ask me is " Are you trying to lose the weight? or what?" .................I guess cause I've pretty much been big for the past 10 years I didn't try before now, so obviously something is wrong with me,like I'm sick or something,I guess....but I do have to say MIL has been a little bit of a sabatoger in the past,but not so much now,sometimes, but not like before.....I think once it sinks in with your family,it'll be a totally different story...people make over me with the weight loss and it makes me wonder what they said about me when I was bigger!!LOL!!!:D

How terrible! If they'd do that to their own son they must really be some sad, sad people :no:

The good thing is that you know how they are. You can handle it, and you can definitely stick with WW :)

Negative people who try to sabotage any life change in others lives are afraid of their own failures. In other words, if you succeed in losing weight, you will look great and they won't. They tried to sabotage their own son's efforts to quit smoking because they lack the strength to do that themselves!

Pity them and realize that you have far too much strength inside you to sink to their level. Just go on building a good life for yourself and your family. Smile at their efforts to discourage you.

Also, realize that you don't need their approval in any segment of your life. Your own approval is enough!

Ok, that is just wrong, to sabotage their own son like that. This tells you a lot about them. So, we will love the (maybe only a few) lovable things about them, and discount everything else. We are not going to let them make you get off program, cause then their sad, wrong way of living wins, and we don't want that! So you come here and talk to us, and we will encourage you, and keep you up, and help you when the french fries and ice cream are calling your name, and you can do this!!![Love ya!!!