Sat, Feb-22-03, 18:54
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Senior Member
Posts: 431
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Plan: Atkins started 1/2/03
Stats: 302/260/185
BF:47/38/23
Progress: 36%
Location: United States
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Ironic....
I just posted a similar reply somewhere but cannot find it. The gist is that I went to an ab routine class the other day at the gym. Four of us in the class, two normal weight, me, and "Barbie". One of the normals left which left three of us. I was a little embarrassed, scared I was going to pop the ball we had to use for the class, sure that Barbie was wondering what I was doing in there. Well, to make a long story short, Barbie turned out to be a very nice woman named Barb (glad she couldn't read my mind!) who was more insecure about her size 28 waist than I was about my size 38 waist! While I was so concerned that she was laughing at me inside, she hadn't even noticed when I was struggling...she was more concerned about what she was doing.
Moral of the story? I think being overweight often makes us very self-conscious and absolutely convinced that everyone is always laughing at us. My mom would laugh at me and tell me not to be so conceited...no one is that concerned about me, skinny or not! I am the one who makes it seem that way! (She doesn't mean that in a mean way, just that I am assuming a lot about people if I assume they are staring at me!)
Amy
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