Is she really my friend?

I have this friend (i’ll call her Debbie), we both started dieting together.  We are both totally different sizes.  She’s says she is 10 and refuses to buy bigger clothes and if she does buy bigger clothes she says, well the manufacturer makes them small. I’m a size 18.  She said she used to be a size 7/8 9/10, she could wear junior clothes and she wants to get back down to that.  I’m like cool even though i think a size 10 is far from fat but anyway.  Long story short,  a week after us going to the gym, she stopped, said she was too tired, she didn’t change her diet, ate chips and candy all day.  Now, what bothers me is while she sees me with my water, i’m still going to the gym (oh, we work together too), i bring salads to work for lunch, i eat oatmeal and/or fruit for breakfast.  I’m eating the right things.  She keeps bringing me lunch from her house, it could be for example, fried rice w/ massive amounts of different kinds of meat/pork/seafood in it along with other things, she’s bringing me sweet stuff, she’s asking me to taste this and taste that (she’s a junk food junkie).  Now, why would she do this and she knows i’m on a diet?

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Ok, it’s been awhile and she knows i’m on and off on my diet, i have good days, i have bad days.  Now, almost every day she’ll come in, oh, i tried on these pants i couldn’t get over my hips, now i can, heheheheheh. I’m like, good for you.  Another day, she’ll come in, you see these pants i got on, they are so big on me, hehehehe, i’m losing so much weight.  Mind you, i can’t tell but that’s besides the point.  My frustration is, she couldn’t support me when i needed it, she was too busy trying to make me fall off my diet along with her.  Now, out of the blue, she’s supposedly losing weight, eating better, blah blah.  I don’t know, is it me, am i just upset because i’m having so much trouble losing weight and she “supposedly” is losing inches?  I thought friends were supposed to support each other not be in competition with one another.  Oh, that’s another thing, for that one week that we went to the gym together, every exercise we did together, she had to try and do more numbers then me.  For example, we are on the treadmill, i would see her looking from the side to see if my elevation was higher then hers, if it was, she’d increase hers.  Same thing with the speed, if i was going faster, she’d increase her speed.  I mean, come one, we are there to help one another not be in competition.  Again, i don’t know, maybe i’m having a bad day but she’s irritated me, actually she’s been irritating me.  I have enough to think about with my diet, i don’t need my so call friend in competition with me.

3 Comments so far

  1. Spring @ May 23rd, 2006

    Sorry to hear you’re going through that.

  2. Char @ May 23rd, 2006

    Some people are just competitive. And she isn’t happy you are staying
    on track. I know people that have to have the bigger house - nicer car
    - more clothes - and of course better looking. Don’t buy in to their
    insecurity. Like Spring said stop sharing weight loss info with her. You are only setting your self up for failure… SHARE IT WITH US!

  3. Carla @ May 23rd, 2006

    This girl is NOT your friend. You should run away from her as fast as you can!! Real friends are supportive and caring. They will help you in your weight loss goals, not try to sabotage them! She is a competitive, jealous, manipulative person with low self-esteem. She does not want to see you succeed. If she were really your friend, she would not quit the gym after one week, she would be motivating the two of you to go together everyday! She is jealous of you and wants to sabotage your weight loss goals. She probably figured that if she quit the gym, you would quit going too. And if she eats bad, you’ll eat bad too and not lose any weight.

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