I Ve been confronted with this situation twice.
First, with my ex, where she gained weight in lockdown. Told her that put some weight and it bothers me a bit. She didn t took it very well, to the point where she almost cried.
Tried to get her to go to gym and having a better lifestyle. She did it, started some home workouts, but the results wasn t as expected. She was lacking time, bit of sleep and most important education about how can someone actually lose weight(all starting from food and a proper lifestyle).
This girl liked to do sports, was gymnast the past, took her with me on hikes and so on. But she was brainwashed about how if you go on a diet, you ll put back the weight due to yoyo effect(which imo is just lack of responsability for bad decisions after quiting a diet) and how you can be healthy by being overweight (in your 20s).
My actual gf put some weight after she quit smoking. After I had my previous experience, I informed her that she will put a lot more weight if she doesn t keep track of her food(she was enjoying food more often now, without smoking). Didn t told her to lose weight, I just informed that her habbit of not being careful about her weight is not doing any good to her.
She did a bit of drama, but in the end she started to look after it and actually closed some weight without me telling her how to do it. Just asked me about calories, how these things work, how many calories something might have and so on. She started to track her food with an app on herself.
How the 2nd one did it better? She was more aware of her body, was already putting more effort in her appearance than the one before and desired to stay in a good shape. She s that type of girl with tan lines and so on. Just stopped eating more without sport.
The 2nd one feels more dependent on me than 1st one.
Although I did dome changes in my actual(this being moral or not is up to debate), now I see that her background matters a lot than me instructing her. I could have done a lot of things better with the 1st one, but in the end, she wouldn t do it if wasn t such a big deal to her.
Ironically, she actually put more weight after we broke up. Even if I was expecting to do otherwise, as
@Skills mentioned.
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