A woman has shared how her boyfriend dumped her because he was no longer attracted to her after she gained weight – but then condemned her for dropping the pounds after their breakup
A woman has slammed her ‘toxic’ boyfriend who broke up with her after she gained weight – only for him to criticize her for dropping it a year later. She explained how she started gaining weight when she was in a relationship – and despite her best efforts, she was unable to go back to her ‘normal’ size.
She improved her diet and started going to the gym – but says nothing worked. Taking to Reddit, she said: “I did gain a fair amount of weight when I was with him, and he pushed me pretty hard to get better, which I tried, I went to the gym, ate better, did what I could, but even then the best I could do was to make the gaining stop.
“It was hell, and I felt like my body didn’t belong to me, I hated it. After about nine months of this, he left me because he wasn’t attracted to me anymore, entirely fair. I don’t hold a grudge for that, or for blocking me and basically disappearing. That’s his right. Though, I do think once you do something like that, you have to pony up and stick to it.”
After their breakup, she stopped taking birth control and was stunned to see how much weight she lost with this simple change. She added: “[I lost] almost a hundred pounds in a matter of months. I had never experienced weight gain on that birth control before, but my doctor said the side effect must have just developed with prolonged use.
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“I’ve been feeling great again, and happier than I have been since I was a teenager, until my ex caught wind of the weight loss.” Since then, her ex-boyfriend has been “blowing up her phone” saying he feels “betrayed” and asking why he wasn’t a good enough reason to lose weight.
“In what world does he have a right to be pissed what my body looks like half a year after we break up? That’s a load of bulls***. I just blocked him without responding, and tried to move on, but one of his friends asked if I would talk to him, because he’s been ‘really broken up’ about the whole thing.
“Why is that my problem? He chose not to be my boyfriend, or my friend, he was the one who dumped me, dropped off the face of the earth, and somehow I’m the bad guy for figuring out a health problem that plagued me for a f***ing year? Nah, he can pound sand.”
Responding to her post, one user said: “Blocking him was the right choice. He’s trying to make your weight loss about him.” Another user added: “He’s a loser. Next.” A third user said: “You lost 300 pounds. 100 pounds off your body and 200 pounds of a sack of s*** boyfriend. Block and move on.”
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