Fuck’em. I do not care if the fat bastards are jealous. Maybe it will give them incentive to do something. I do not spend time in the gym to hide it. I show it off. I will cut the grass in some nut huggers. Well that might be a little weird. Do not be ashamed of what you have been accomplished,let them be ashamed of what they have not accomplished.
Im a pussy cat, not a pussy mind you, but a pussy cat. I wont say anything to that guy. Ill just look at him funny.
Janderstein-I havent heard of that guy. I only just started competing though so i could meet him in the future.
I think I can help to answer this one for ya. Prior to the Spring of 2000, I was one of these people that “hated” everyone that was in shape and had a nice body. I weighed 300 lbs and all that I lived to do was eat and drink junk food (high carb/high fat crap). I loved to crack jokes about all those “idiots” who spent so much time in the gym building nice physiques and worrying about every calorie that went into their mouth, etc. My friends and I would always find a reason to make fun of those who were “in shape.”
Why did I do it? It made me feel better. I kept telling myself that it was okay to be fat and out of shape, women wouldn’t talk to me so I felt better if I criticized those with nice physiques. I felt better than everyone else when I put them down. If was fun for me to suck down my donuts and sit around on my lard ass and put everyone else down, because in retrospect I had nothing else going for me in life than food and put downs.
Anyhow, fast forward to the present. I finally figured out, after a doctors visit in May of 2000, that I was heading for a very early death from my sedentary, 10,000 Calorie/day gluttoneous junk food lifestyle that had left me a Type II diabetic. I am now in shape, down to 210 lbs on a 6’ 2" frame and I eat very clean and lift regularly. I have come a long way since three years ago, and my how the tables have turned. I now find myself on the other side of the coin - isn’t life funny sometimes?
It makes people feel better if they can put down those who are in shape when they themselves are not. Those who poke fun and make rude remarks towards people with nice physiques themselves are just trying to make themselves feel better by justifying their slothful lifestyles.
Just ignore them and know that you are rewarding yourself with a good, healthy lifestyle in the years to come.
Been there and done that.
JR
I met my best friend about 3 years ago when I was 30lbs heavier than I am now and she was about 15lbs heavier than that. We get along as though we were the same person in a former life and were split into two for this life. Odd I know, but in a good way. She has been more supportive and encouraging than any other person I’ve ever met…until I became regular in the gym and it started paying off.
Every now and again, there’ll be some comment or quip derrogatory to people who train or eat right. Then there’s the looks, the envious/angry looks that can’t be explained. For the most part I ignore it. But it’s hard to see someone so close to you acting in that fashion. It’s hard to feel, momentarily at least, that I have to justify eating/training the way I do and to want to point out the obvious results. But that would just make too glaring a juxtaposition of her diet/physique flaws. It’s a “tough love” intervention that she’d not embrace. While she’s asked a few questions about supplements/diet and I’ve explained what I do and why, in the end she’s just not interested enough to do something about it. She’d rather live in denial. Makes me kinda sad.
To the rest of the people out there that throw me looks or make comments - fuck 'em. Who are they that I should concern myself with their neurosis?