Ignorance is bliss

Hello to my fellow friends or readers who also lifts!

I suppose this topic is directed towards girls more than guys.

I started lifting weights in 2011? It was simple habits that I decided to cultivate because I had deep set insecurity issues regarding my physical appearance. I refused to succumb to the 'Freshman 15' whereby people gain tremendous weight when they go overseas. I was just too much of a scaredy cat to go through a tenacious change physically wise.

So, when I first started off lifting weights, I couldn't manage to lift very heavy weights. Naturally, I have always been quite weak so I started off doing simple exercises such as running for 15 minutes, cycling for another 15 minutes and finished the cardio session with a little bit of weight training. I could barely lift more than 5kg dumbbells at that time.

2015, Im lifting 3x times the weight than before. I have no gained yet nor lost any weight but I shed fats off my waist and seem to be growing in terms of muscles gains (?) Lol.

I still constantly struggle with my eating habits whereby people around me can be very discouraging about my eating habits. If there's one thing I've learned when you want to make a change, it's that don't listen to people who bring you down.

I have had people giving me snide and rude remarks:
"Do you even eat?" "Are you eating grass?" "I don't know how you can live this way" "It must be a sad life that you're leading" "Girls shouldn't lift" "You are so unfeminine" "How are you going to find a boyfriend this way?" "Noone will ever like that a girl is stronger than a guy"

There have been more remarks I've received but these are the more prominent ones that linger around in my mind. Im not saying that I have the best body nor do I have a super muscular body.

It hurts when people who you think that will always support you, put you down but meh, if they were not there for you during your struggles, why should you be there during my happier days?