u/Altruistic-Pilot-788

I have a friend who has now started her weight loss journey and she has started to do the exact same thing I did. Its part of the journey, I am not judging her at all for it. I did it lmao. Its just so weird to be confronted with what's essentially your own behaviour in third person. Like, girl. You so clearly do not have that condition.

Starting from, I was just born a bit thicker. A classic, I have always been overweight and come from a family thats a bit bigger. I see it.

I genuinely thought I had a thyroid issue at one point. Never bothered to get it checked out even though I thought it was controlling my life. After this I was convinced it was cushings because of my shape.

I then got into sport. I went on my first ever run since I was 14, and struggled so much I thought I had exercise induced asthma. This one I did get diagnosed and was given an inhaler.

I do not asthma. I just had bad running technique and also this was my first time doing mild cardio.

Weight loss is hard, its going to be hard. That hard doesnt necessarily mean something is wrong. I kind of see why I did it as a coping mechanism, I dont think I was in a position to just accept that it was my fault.

I still have a way to go and I am so proud of my bestie for starting.

(Also, do go to the doctor if you think something is wrong. Don't take this post as a sign that you are lying to yourself)

Its a weird phenomenon I have noticed. If you go into a male dominated fitness space and have a better starting point then the average at something or the other, its high fives all around.

You cant do that in womans fitness spaces though. They always have to find a scientific reason to explain it away. Its newbie gains, its water, the air is different, you're young. On one hand its a very normal thing everyone experiences, on the other its something they struggled with for years.

Its okay to just admit, that someone might be slightly better. We are all allowed to say that Micheal Phelps was born to do swimming (with all the added hard work on top obvs) but when its a woman standing there, suddenly every single woman on earth has the exact same starting point. It makes no sense.

Tyere are so many variations, diet, geography, genetic makeup, heck even just the fact someone may have been working in a labour intensive job rather then at a desk.

Its completely okay that we are all different.