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I am getting sick and tired of people telling me that I've lost too much weight or I am too skinny. You wouldn't tell somebody that they're too fat at work would you?
I'm running and riding hard and eating healthily so I have gone from being a fit and healthy but "padded" person to a fit and healthy person with minimal body fat. Its not as if I've been making myself puke...I'm still well into the normal range in terms of BMI (in fact, closer to overweight because I'm a big shouldered bloke).
I'm really happy with my sporting achievements in the last year but I wish my colleagues would stop telling me that I am too skinny! What do they think I should do? Start eating less healthy food or stop doing the sports that I love? I'm 6'2" and about 14 stone ffs!
I think I'm getting it particularly badly because I peaked for a climbing expedition in December that never happened and I'm also a little self conscious about how I look so I might be a bit oversensitive. Summer training will be starting soon and I've also stopped doing weights for a while to get over a recent neck injury.
Grrr...does anybody else get this when they're training is going well? I was brought up to think that it was impolite to comment on somebody's appearance unless they were a close friend or relative.