A woman has been slammed for refusing to exercise with her 'overweight' friend.
In a post on Reddit, the 23-year-old woman explained how she was relentlessly bullied for her weight and it affected her confidence growing up.
But it motivated her to start working out and now she has a disciplined lifestyle, frequenting the gym four times a week.
"The thing is. I love going to the gym by myself, I don’t really partake in group workouts like yoga or cycling because it makes me extremely uncomfortable," she explained.
So when she received a text from her friend Lynn, 25, asking whether she could work out with her to help her shift some post-baby weight, she politely declined.
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"I responded exactly like this, 'Hey Lynn, I’m sorry but I prefer working out by myself and I’m not a trainer so I don’t feel comfortable showing someone the ropes of weight lifting, but I’m happy to hear about your fitness journey and would love to introduce you to a personal trainer I know/have gone to at an all-girls gym I go to, just let me know.'"
The next day she receives messages from mutual friends who were saying how "horrible I was for fat-shaming Lynn, that I was a fake b****, and I was being selfish and 'gatekeeping' my fitness secrets."
The woman was "flabbergasted" and told them what actually happened with the screenshots.
"They told me that Lynn said I called her fat and that I wasn’t going to train her because I don’t want people to know my fitness routine because 'I want to be the hottest friend.'"
She said she tried calling Lynn to sort things out but she had apparently blocked her.
She concluded her post by saying that although a few of their mutual friends are on her side, there are a few others who are still saying she's an a**hole.
Reddit users were quick to share their thoughts on the situation, and the majority of people said she'd done nothing wrong.
One person said: "Sounds like you just lost 185 pounds of immaturity."
Another wrote: "People are entitled to workout alone if they wish. You don't owe anyone your time. Working out isn't some top CIA secret. Advice can be easily obtained on the internet. Your friend is an [a**hole] for both disrespecting your boundaries and also spreading lies about you to mutual friends. My advice... put on your running shoes and run away from the red flag."
A third commented: "I'm not quite the gym rabbit you are, but my workout time is my 'me' time. I don't want to interact with other people when I'm lifting or doing cardio. And based on the near-lack of conversation at my gym, most other people are the same way.
"Sounds like Lynn needs some expectation-setting, but that will probably need to come from someone else."
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