That's how life works and you have to accept it. In basically every area, if you are above average - or, like in your case you are in like <10% of the best, you will meet both those that adore you, admire you and want to learn from you as well as those who will try to make your life miserable, just because they lack strength to achieve what you did. Don't get me wrong, those people that are constantly hating are also admiring you - but they won't admit it, just like Katyaa said mostly because they subconsciously don't want their mind to believe that they are weak, so they choose defensive stance of denying to admit publicly your efforts and they continue to affect your performance negatively in any way they can.

You just can't worry about it, move on and do your thing

There is many more people looking at you with admiration and desire than those that will talk about you behind your back, just because you are better than them at something.

Great info from all of you here! I'm sure promenade will make a great progress now thanks to you and well, so will I! I have similar problems now, I don't feel like I'm really moving forward, but I don't want to get on a strict diet - I try to eat healthy and consume a lot of proteins but I'm not dedicated enough to keep a diet now. I only started working out because my ex boyfriend took me to a gym a few times. We are not together anymore, but I've stuck with gym as I have really loved it but I don't see a point toa try this hard. I was never overweight so I just go to gym 3x/week to feel better and look better. It was working so far, but as I've seen so many great responses here I'm sure I will be able to do something about it. I will start with adjusting my reps because as promenade I'm on FBW with higher reps - 8-12. I was using a plan that my ex boyfriend gave me so I will make some changes!