Should you tell anyone you’re trying to lose weight?
Should you tell people you’re trying to lose weight? I usually don’t. Here’s why I keep my goals private, avoid the questions, and prefer a grand reveal to a public progress report.
Honest articles about comparison, jealousy, food pressure and the ways other people can make your own weight-loss choices feel harder.
Should you tell people you’re trying to lose weight? I usually don’t. Here’s why I keep my goals private, avoid the questions, and prefer a grand reveal to a public progress report.
Sometimes jealousy arrives before I have even noticed a woman’s face. This is an honest look at body comparison, the faults I search for and what the feeling may really be trying to tell me.
My husband can eat larger portions, snack freely and remain a skinny, muscly rake. I cannot. Learning to accept that difference took years of resentment, petty thoughts and staring bitterly at his plate.