How to be a Friend to someone who is TRYING to lose weight

Now this will be a random post. Let me just say key word is TRYING to lose weight. Many of us have friends who NEED to lose weight, but that is yet another topic for another post.

So friends. If you have a friend who is actively trying to lose weight and create a healthy lifestyle you really have to join them in that effort. For instance alot of social activities are around food. Perhaps instead of meeting for dinner or at Starbucks you can meet up at a park and take a walk to catch up. Or perhaps you can pick a restaurant that is a health food kind of spot. Why? Because one of the easiest times to fall off the wagon is ooh well I am hooking up with my girl today for dinner and willpower............out the window. Now the person should know and do better, but friendship is about having someone's back when they don't have sense enough to know they need it right?

Check in with them. Ask them how it is going. Not how much weight have they lost or anything like that. But if you are talking ask them are you feeling any better? What is your workout schedule? If you learn the schedule you can send them encouraging emails on the days they are working out telling them keep up the good work. Now many people like this, I am not one to take compliments so it annoys me more than anything, but tell them they are looking good. My pet peeve is someone telling me I am losing weight when I am not LOL If the person doesn't look smaller don't tell them they are. 1) They know you are lying 2) They need to know they still have work to do. It isn't like lying to new parents when the child is ugly telling them how cute the kid is. Often like me the only reason people are working out is sheer ego.

The greatest supporters I have are my two closest friends who are both very small. Both inquire about what I am doing exercise wise and have both started working out themselves. My crazy workout regime isn't about weight loss as much as it is about lifestyle change. I mean I am the largest person I see at the gym regularly. The little skinny women of which I used to be who I resent seeing on bad days, are there 6 days a week with me! Hell they deserve it. So this for me is a journey for a healthy lifestyle. I was a skinny woman until I was about 20 and had an unhealthy lifestyle which got my butt up to damn near a size 20!

With that said I will be more serious about blogging as for me it holds me accountable to my transition from do it Angie's Way Healthstlye, to a Healthy Lifestyle the RIGHT way. Please keep me lifted up in prayer. While my eating habits when I am doing it my way aren't bad now that I am paying attention to what I am eating hell I crave stuff I didn't eat in the past. Go figure! LOL