I went to the Biggest Loser Challenge, and it turns out it's supposed to be just for a special group of students in this certain program. The lady who heads it up made a pretty big deal of me being there, and kept on telling me how I wouldn't be able to do some of the things other students would be doing unless I paid for it out of pocket myself, but she kept on telling me, "...but you're still welcome to stay and participate." The flier I had seen said NOTHING about it just being for students in a particular program, and it was on the door of building that has several different offices in it...they shouldn't have put it out there if they didn't want other people to come to it. Needless to say, I'm about 95% sure that the next chance I get, I'm going to tell her that I will not be doing it and give her back the binder I got at the meeting. I have never felt so unwelcome going to something on campus...it was like every chance she got she was saying something like "...student services students" or "wellness program students," "our kids," or telling me how much things would cost me like the personal training. And the thing is, a lot of the kids in the program were barely overweight...there was one girl who was stick thin! There are other kids on campus who need an opportunity like this more than the kids who are in it.
I even asked her if she was sure it was okay and she said yes, but at the end when i asked her if I needed to stay so she could talk to me, she said in the rudest way possible, "No, we already talked about this." This makes me feel like I'm better off doing it on my own rather than to ask for help here at home. I was hoping that this would be a good opportunity for me to maximize my results and maybe make some new friends but all it has done is made me feel more insecure about it and made me trust adults less.
