Now that is an interesting conversation @zaicandy! I apologise for questioning your motives.
It’s often a balance for who to tell and who not to. Some experiences described in other threads have shown that even dear friends can be really judgemental in the way I described last night. Some are interested and positive about it. But it’s hard to know which way people will go if it’s not been in the conversation before.
For me, I’ve had a lifetime of diet talk and I just get really bored by it when it’s not people in a similar position to me or who are closer to my own weight. It’s hard to listen to friends talk about their diets when their journey is so vastly different to mine.
I also have some things to work through regarding my family’s relationship with my body. It’s been very very difficult at times and a few years ago I took the subject off the table. Assessment of, and commenting on, my body is not permitted, end of story. I have had to shut people down every time they’ve forgotten since then. I just cannot be arsed with revisiting it all because I’ll end up having to reset my boundaries again.
So, I have told some people and I haven’t told others. No one else has to have an opinion on that, or understand it, it’s just the way it is. I might change my mind. I might not. But, as with so many things, my body, my choice.
And in the meantime, I still go out for burgers, but I don’t eat the chips…