When people try to ?skinny shame you out of your weight loss goals.

I make no secret of the fact that I'm overweight/obese (BMI 29-30) and want to lose some body fat. Despite wanting to do for health reasons - my hips hurt when I run, I'm starting to get a bit uncomfortable when sitting in cars/planes and I really don't want to be carrying an extra 10-20kg bodyweight along a 17 day trek later this year.

I strength train - but my lifting numbers are nowhere near what they should for someone on my weight, so it's definitely not pure muscle I'm carrying as extra weight and my cardio is suffering for it.

Despite having a very healthy weight loss goal (would bring me down to a BMI of 24-26) the amount of people that feel the need to comment on it being a bad idea is ridiculous.