HOW did you lose the weight??? Do you get asked that all the time?

Pastaprincess1978

Does anyone else often get asked how they lost weight? It continues to surprise me how curious people are about how I lost weight - it's as if they are expecting some neat and easy answer apart from eating less food!

ccsernica

"I ate less and exercised."

They are invariably disappointed.

dsboohead

Yes...just today. A woman who works in the same building as myself but haven't seen for awhile. She saw me and her mouth fell open asked me...how did you do it?Just told her MFP
as well as logging a1400 cal program.
She stood there silently for a moment and just looked as though I deflated her balloon! Nope no magic...just 1400 calories and logging diligently.
Maybe moving more.......WHAT DID SHE WANT?!

seltzermint555

I feel like people think I'm lying when I tell them counting calories with MyFitnessPal. They usually make this face like "no I mean seriously, how?" It is very annoying. For some reason they seem to prefer if I said "I went gluten free!" or "Keto" or even "surgery" and I really think a lot of them believe I'm withholding secret info. It is obnoxious. It happens less now than it did in the first couple of years but yeah, ugh. It seems like a nice question to be asked but at least 90% of the time hate their response to my answer.

ImmeDay

They really want a quick trick, they don't want to know how hard we worked, they hope we can give them some shortcut

Pastaprincess1978

I now say - 'eat less food' or 'less in more out'. About sums it up!

Pastaprincess1978

We could probably create some 'magical weight disappearing powder' and sell it!!

Pastaprincess1978

Actually I think they already have those - meal replacement shakes!

qstneverything

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has to deal with annoying people when asked this question

They always stare and get disappointed when you say 'Exercised more and ate less' sometimes even prodding with a "yeah...but what's your secret?" until they eventually give up and quickly change the topic.

LivingtheLeanDream

Oh yeah, get asked it frequently but peoples eye glaze over when I tell them I count calories and move a bit more.

ilcontreras28

I get asked all the time..i even get accused of using diet pills. People don't get the concept of eating less

Rincewind_1965

ImmeDay wrote: »

[...] they hope we can give them some shortcut

In my experience they want me to give them an excuse why they couldn't do it.
They look relieved if I try to tell them about complex nutritional concepts and extremely annoyed after the concluding sentence, which is: "... but it all boils down to "Eat less than you burn"" ...

Literally anyone can do it, all it needs is willpower, and that's what really p.... finishes them off.

dutchandkiwi

At my previous job quite frequently. They all wanted to know my magic bullet and tried to tell my about their amazing new diet, all wanted to cut the enemy out fo their diet (gluten, fat, carbs, dairy, meat, etc etc)
Never ceased to maze me Don't have that issue at my current job as they've only known me at goal weight

GOT_Obsessed

I don't get asked the why very much but I do get their assumptions. A new big gym opened up here last July. But I did not start until Oct. People assume "oh you go to the new gym I bet." I assure them that I do go there but only a couple days a week. I say that I found the best results once I got my food intake under control. I started to log my food and keep track of my calories.

Most are shocked that I don't live at the gym, some are shocked that I still eat pizza on occaision, and some are so bored at my words that they are looking over my shoulder for an escape route.

GOT_Obsessed

ImmeDay wrote: »

They really want a quick trick, they don't want to know how hard we worked, they hope we can give them some shortcut

Absolutely!

hesn92

Diet and exercise lol. Yes it’s funny. They are expecting some magic short cut or pill

DananaNanas

I don't get asked this (yet?) lol but this thread made me lol

cmriverside

Like every other subject, it seems that people just want to 1. Show you how smart (smarter than you ) they are. and 2. Get into an argument.

I've stopped engaging in those discussions. Everyone has an opinion and mine is the right one.

emcclure013

There are a lot of outspoken people at my work, so I get asked this quite a lot. My short answer? "I don't eat anything fun anymore." We have a good laugh, I tell them I'm using MFP and counting calories and that I still eat ice cream almost every day, they tell me that's super hard and walk away. Rinse, repeat.

urloved33

daily walking, healthy meals and lifting.

rachelr1116

Even people that have asked me before will still ask how I lost the weight. I don't know if they're expecting me to change my answer? I always tell them the same thing - I ate less and tried to move more. I've even started telling them exactly how I did it, counting calories with MFP and using my Fitbit to motivate myself to burn more calories. Sometimes I'll get the follow up question about whether I did low carb or low fat and I'll tell them that I like cake too much to do either of those. I maintained for about a year and now I'm working on losing some more so I expect I'll start getting more questions.