I really need to stop getting in my own way of my success.
Over the past month or so, especially over the Thanksgiving holiday, I saw some people that I'm not regularly in touch with, and I got several compliments about my weight loss. It was nice, until people consistently started following their compliments with a guilty confession of how they never work out or they've put on a bit of weight or they haven't lost what they've wanted to or something similar. It really started making me feel self-conscious. I usually responded to them with something like stating that I'm fortunate to have enough time to focus on my health or that everyone's goals are different and this just happens to be my current goal. I got the feeling though, that my weight loss was making all of these other people feel bad about themselves.
I guess that I let these feelings get to me subconsciously. I hated being confronted by these negative feelings, other people's guilt leading to my own guilt, so for the past several weeks I put weight loss on the back burner. Well, I'm done with that. I have goals and I can't help that other people aren't able to pursue that same goal right now. We all have our journeys and I need to find my success while I still have the time and energy to do so.