Has anyone here started experience negative comments from people as you started to lose weight?

For reference, I restarted my fitness journey around the end of May/first week of June of this year. Since then, I’ve transitioned from a sedentary lifestyle to a more active lifestyle, and completely changed my eating habits as I continue to navigate things in this crazy journey of mine.

Moreover, I went to get my eyebrows done earlier today and experienced both positive and negative comments regarding my recent weight loss. I’ve been a regular customer at this salon for about 5+ years now, so I’m pretty comfortable with the women who thread there, but there are two specific women I always go to, more-so this one woman who does them perfectly. ANYWAYS, so the one woman, we’ll call her R, she asks how much weight I’ve lost, since it’s been about a month or two since she’s seen me and the weight loss was noticeable (she was complimenting me, asking me how I did it, etc.). I told her I’ve lost 35 pounds now since June, and she and the other woman, we’ll call her W, were super shocked. W made a snarky ass comment saying, “Oh just a little bit more would be perfect.” R kind of defends me, saying that I’ve lost a good amount of weight in these past few months and that it’s fine. R and I continue talking and I heard W make another comment kind of reinstating her belief again, that I would look perfect if it was just a few more. I told W that I’ve worked super hard the past few months and even if I do need to lose a little more, I’m more so proud of myself for how much I’ve done. She silently agreed and R and I spoke a bit before I left.

It’s just insane because like this woman and I have known each other for years and like she’s made comments before about other things with me (I’m South Asian and the women there are too, they’re kind of like my aunties like culturally so I don’t usually comment back/it’s minor appearance comments), I usually can get past it and it’s not normally weight related. It’s just irritating I guess.

So have you guys noticed I guess, “bitter” comments from people as you’ve continued to lose weight? Let me know!

submitted by /u/ActualCriticism3318
[link] [comments]

from loseit - Lose the Fat https://ift.tt/q1aE2Sv

Looking for advice on losing weight

Hello! I've recently decided that I need to lose weight (probably close to 15 or 20 pounds) but I am very new to this whole thing so I need some help.

I'm 20 years old, MTF on HRT for a year, and 5'11" tall.

My current weight is somewhere around 175 to 180 lbs and my goal weight is 160 lbs.

From my current understanding, most of the weight loss battle comes from eating in a calorie deficit. I usually am not that active, apart from walking around a combined mile a day to get to and from classes, as well as staying on my feet for around 5 hours and moving around at work.

The main reason I want to lose weight is hard to explain to cis people. I'm trans, and therefor have had a typically male fat distribution my whole life. When I started college, I gained about 20 pounds. And shortly after when I started HRT, I gained probably another 5 to 10. Now that I've been on hormones for a year, my fat distribution is supposed to be more feminine, but I still have a lot of residual fat from before hormones in such a way that it makes my body look very strange.

I've been told by other transfemmes that it can be good to lose weight after being on HRT for a bit, because then you'll lose the masculine fat and regain it with a more feminine distribution. I struggle with my self image a lot already, and I feel like I need to take more control in order to feel better.

Any help is appreciated. Advice on calorie deficits, potential workouts, whatever yall have. Thank you.

submitted by /u/Yemses
[link] [comments]

from loseit - Lose the Fat https://ift.tt/6V0yYFM