A guy shared a story of an encounter he had in the gym with a fellow female gym goer who commented on his weight loss.
He has been much of a loner while at the gym and feels that people commenting on his weight loss implies that they have seen him at his fattest and have ever judged him for being fat before which made him very conscious about himself.
Here is the story
“I started going to the gym and most of the time I would just keep to myself and keep my head down and not talk or bother anyone and in return I wouldn’t ever get bothered myself. That’s how I prefer it.
I was given a program with a mix of different exercises and machines to use. One of the them is a mountain climb stair machine. There are only two of them in the gym, both next to each other.
I will get on the machine for about twenty minutes and do my bit and get off. One day, a fit athletic lady on the machine beside me, grabs my attention after I get off.
She says “Hey” to grab my attention. I just look up and she says smiling “I’ve noticed you around. You look like you’ve lost a lot of weight. You should be really proud of yourself”.
I really didn’t like what she said, because it made me feel too self conscious of myself. It felt like she was confirming what people were saying to me before that I was fat and unhealthy.
So I just ignored her and walked off.
The next few days in the gym again I would use that mountain machine because she was often always on the one next to it.
I would also walk the long way around the gym to avoid having to come in any close contact with her.
Another day, I was in the weight machines area on a different machine and she gets on the one beside me.
She nervously says “Hi” to me and I just said Hi back without making eye contact or talking to her further.
This awkwardness is killing me”
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