Had a client comment on my weight yesterday
For context, this client and I had been having a pleasant conversation about not originally being from this part of the country and she asked what had brought me here and I told her a bit about it and that I had recently enlisted in the US Army and leave for basic training in October.
Unprompted, she looked at me and said, “I’m going to say something that a mother, a sister, a friend would tell you. You need to lose 20-30 lbs and get on a glp-1, and start doing Pilates, or you won’t have the stamina to make it through that.”
I awkwardly was like “uhh yeah I’m working very hard on my fitness goals and frankly can’t afford those things nor are medications like that allowed for enlisted soldiers to medically qualify.”
What she doesn’t know, is I work 10 hour days walking around 25,000 steps a day, and still drag my tired ass to the gym after work for over an hour, I walk my dog at least a mile and a half before and after work, force myself to get up at 5am every morning to run a mile, and do push ups and sit ups in between cleaning shit at work. I work in large animal medicine so I’m outside, in the heat, working with horses and cattle and everything else.
I am painfully aware that I’m not yet where I need to be, and no one knows more than myself what I look like and how much weight needs to come off my body when I step on a scale and look in a mirror. I can’t lie, it really, really stung me when she said that. She had literally just met me. It was so unexpectedly sharp and I get she was probably trying to help but it wasn’t. It was just unnecessary.
So, I cried a little about it and did my usually 1.5 hours at the gym after work. The army is gonna give me tough skin but damn dude, I’m working so hard!
Have any of you ever had clients say some really out of pocket things to you about your body/weight/appearance?