Friends and their support
December 18th, 2006I was reading Tracy’s blog where she brought up a good point about being out with friends and them not supporting her the way she needed it. I’ve experienced this before; you are out with friends, they expect you to eat as they eat and drink as you drink. Well, we all know what a night like that can do to our weightloss efforts.
I think though when friends try to get you to drink with them or eat what they are eating; that they aren’t trying to hurt your efforts, but instead just think you look fine the way you are and they probably feel like you are denying yourselves a good time.
It’s hard though, do you say something and risk offending your friends? Do you give in to their pressure? I wouldn’t do either unless it got overwhelming. I typically just say no thanks, I’m fine. I haven’t yet had to say something to a friend, but what do you do when things like that happen?
How odd, I just wrote about the friends topic in my post this morning. It is nice to know I’m not the only one with the issue. I’m torn on it, honestly. I’ve been the “Look, I don’t want to eat that, I’m happy with my salad” when out with friends…and they get offended. Yet on the opposite coin, if I accept the crappy stuff they want to eat, then I feel bad. It’s wierd. I’ve instituted a once a week ‘friends’ meal. In that meal I will eat with the crowd. But if there is another time that week where I have to go out to eat with friends, then I stick to my guns and eat healthy. It seems to be working so far….
Comment by Paige — December 18, 2006 @ 4:16 pm