Just needed to write this down, have NC'd.
I started dieting in February, with the intention of losing about 30-40 pounds overall. I had been doing really well, steady loss of about one and a half pounds each week.
I met up with a friend who I haven't seen for about eight months last week. I was nervous about seeing her, as she is very blunt with her opinions, so had prepared myself for her saying something.
The first words out of her mouth when I walked in, after saying hello, were "Oh my God, LovelyDaffodil, how have you got so big?"
I acknowledged the weight gain and said that I was doing something about it, had been on diet since Feb, was doing really well but still had a way to go.
Her response was (ad verbatim): "No kidding, I've never seen you with a belly, you must have been massive before." I said that I was well aware of that and asked her to change the subject, because telling me I'm fat isn't very polite, for which she apologised.
But too late, I went on autopilot for the rest of the visit and on leaving, somehow ended up at a McDonald's. I've been on a nonstop binge since, ending today, because I've put on 3 pounds in the last week and I've realised that I can't let one setback put me off my goal.
The binge wasn't directly triggered by her comments I think, it was more that her comments set off a train of thought which ended up with me concluding that I might as well give up, because to other people, I still look fat. And her comments did hurt me (and bingeing takes away any negative feelings, while I'm doing it, at least).
But anyway, I'm back on track from today and will be avoiding this friend for the foreseeable future!
Didn't think I was so easily weakened.