Dumbest comment I get told everyday about working out is...

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  • fatcity66
    fatcity66 Posts: 1,544 Member
    The main thing that makes me crazy is food related, not exercise related. When we have birthday celebrations here (once a month) and we have cake, some of my coworkers will literally scrape the frosting off from my cake because I am "one a diet", according to them. I told them that I am fully aware of what I can and cannot eat and don't need them to a. police my food or b. make a big deal about it in front of all of the other employees. Seriously, I've lost the weight all by myself, I don't need anyone telling me what I can and cannot eat.

    I would shove that cake in their frigging faces. :explode:
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    I always just get comments from the other Mums about how short my shorts are or generally just comments about how fit I look or what I'm wearing, or just drawing attention constantly to my body.

    To be honest after a lifetime of no comments,(17 years in a relationship) I'm getting sick of it. I can tell it's not always from a healthy place, and I feel like I'm being judged. I'm also sick of their husbands flirting with me now that I'm single. It's very weird. Oh well, suppose I shouldn't complain, but it's amazing how much physical appearance can affect us.
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    Oh yes and when someone asks you how you got in shape and you tell them that you eat loads of carbs. I hate when the glazed over look comes, because they just can't accept that low carb isn't always the answer. You just know they're going, oh well, she's different, born with a fast metabolism.

    I mention how many years I low carbed for, and how unfit I was but they just think I'm making it up.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    I'm at the top range of what's considered overweight for my height, 30 lbs to go before I'm "normal," and more than one person has already asked me if I was at my goal weight. LOL no.


    OH and the people that ask me, "Should you be eating that on your diet?" LOL yes.


    Actually, that's why I don't really tell people I'm trying to lose weight, because I didn't want everyone and their grandma to feel like they have the right to give me unsolicited advice.

    OHOHOH and the dismissive, almost disbelieving look people give me when I tell them I lost 50 lbs eating what I wanted, just counting calories, while they're talking about how this or that food is "bad." Every. Single. Time.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    The main thing that makes me crazy is food related, not exercise related. When we have birthday celebrations here (once a month) and we have cake, some of my coworkers will literally scrape the frosting off from my cake because I am "one a diet", according to them. I told them that I am fully aware of what I can and cannot eat and don't need them to a. police my food or b. make a big deal about it in front of all of the other employees. Seriously, I've lost the weight all by myself, I don't need anyone telling me what I can and cannot eat.

    I would shove that cake in their frigging faces. :explode:

    +1 Dude, if anybody touched my cake, I would freakin' cut them! I love cake!
  • fatcity66
    fatcity66 Posts: 1,544 Member
    I agree I don't need a woman with muscles, all natural for me please!

    What exactly is "unnatural" about muscles?
    If women didn't have muscles, we'd just be gelatinous masses with bones floating in them.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Necro thread etc

    /12char

    4 days does not a necro thread make.
  • HereWeGoAgain7
    HereWeGoAgain7 Posts: 163 Member
    Maybe not everyday, but fairly frequently:

    "your gym partner(s) are all men? so do you want to look like a man or do they want to look like a woman?"

    Really? its neither. It's just that right now our goals are running parallel to each other as far as lifting and increasing cardio endurance goes and it helps to have someone else there embracing the suck with you.
  • ilfaith
    ilfaith Posts: 16,769 Member
    From another thread, just this morning..."With a body like that, I am wondering why she's on MFP?"

    Sigh.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    Not everyday ( most days I don't leave the farm so I don't see that many people) but I get comments like " Take it easy, you're working too hard, I worry about you". Huh? If I don't, the horses and ducks don't get fed, stalls and duckhouse don't get cleaned, feed and hay doesn't get hauled, garden doesn't get weeded, etc. It's not as though I have a choice.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    The main thing that makes me crazy is food related, not exercise related. When we have birthday celebrations here (once a month) and we have cake, some of my coworkers will literally scrape the frosting off from my cake because I am "one a diet", according to them. I told them that I am fully aware of what I can and cannot eat and don't need them to a. police my food or b. make a big deal about it in front of all of the other employees. Seriously, I've lost the weight all by myself, I don't need anyone telling me what I can and cannot eat.

    I would shove that cake in their frigging faces. :explode:



    THIS^^^ All day long.
  • MelsAuntie
    MelsAuntie Posts: 2,833 Member
    I agree I don't need a woman with muscles, all natural for me please!
    [/quote





    Muscles are unnatural?]
  • missdibs1
    missdibs1 Posts: 1,092 Member
    Not really about working out but more diet related:

    "You gotta ask yourself about all those carbs" ~ my (overweight) dad as I reached for a hot dog bun on the Fourth.

    "Clearly, I'm doing it wrong, Dad"

    HAHA I had someone over weight take the bread basket away from me and tell me I had an eating disorder (as in I was eating the bread)
  • Andiebeanluvsu
    Andiebeanluvsu Posts: 105 Member
    My personal favorite:

    "Are you sure this is a sustainable way to lose weight? Do you really think you'll be able to keep up tracking calories and exercising FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?"


    Um, yep. That's why it's called a lifestyle change.

    Also

    "You can't have (fill in anything "non-diet-y"), aren't you on a diet?!"
  • kristanvdub
    kristanvdub Posts: 50 Member
    My favorite is "If I was as skinny as you I'd eat anything I wanted."

    I'm so skinny because I don't eat whatever I want lol

    Another good one "You're so skinny what happens if you get sick?"

    I rarely get sick because I take care of myself...grrr
  • Tiki1978
    Tiki1978 Posts: 364
    "Run? was someone chasing you? Oh, why would you want to do that?"
  • mstaser
    mstaser Posts: 657 Member
    The question I hate hearing the most is "How would you be paying for this month?"
  • murphy612
    murphy612 Posts: 734 Member
    The main thing that makes me crazy is food related, not exercise related. When we have birthday celebrations here (once a month) and we have cake, some of my coworkers will literally scrape the frosting off from my cake because I am "one a diet", according to them. I told them that I am fully aware of what I can and cannot eat and don't need them to a. police my food or b. make a big deal about it in front of all of the other employees. Seriously, I've lost the weight all by myself, I don't need anyone telling me what I can and cannot eat.

    Scrapping the frosting off your cake?!? That's throat punch worthy! mmmmm frosting
  • Springfield1970
    Springfield1970 Posts: 1,945 Member
    I agree I don't need a woman with muscles, all natural for me please!

    I can't bear it when people say to me 'you're so natural, no tone at all, like a nice piece of veal'

    Dont they know how hard it is to sit around doing nothing and starving myself!

    Jeez!
  • likitisplit
    likitisplit Posts: 9,420 Member
    Diet related:

    "Is that allowed in your diet?" "Are you still losing weight?"

    Says the person next to me when I decide to eat something delicious (i.e. s'mores or chicken fajita nachos) that I have carefully worked into my day.

    It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change and I refuse to cut out the things that I love (I tried that with the nachos, but it just isn't happening. They're my favorite.)

    Yes, I am still losing weight. Do you really think this ONE s'more is going to cause me to put all 42 pounds back on?!

    Goodness!

    Exactly what I was thinking...
    LIMITING not ELIMINATING...if I want a frikkin S'more, I'll have one...and like you said, it's a lifestyle CHANGE.
    Eliminating all of your favorite foods is only going to make you miserable...I'm learning how to balance the good AND the bad and it's working out GREAT!

    Dumbest 'exercise' comment..
    "That's not HIKING!"

    heard this on a few occasions...especially if I mention my 'pace', speed and/or mph

    I'm NOT walking on a treadmill, or along a paved road, or any 'flat, level surface' for that matter...
    I'm HIKING out in the desert boonies dodging creosote bushes and Joshua Trees, up and down over 'washes' and trekking over a terrain made up of large rocks and deep sand. My average 'pace' or speed is about 2.5mph but speed isn't everything..my focus is solely on intensity and duration....NOT speed.
    Call it what you want..
    I call it HIKING :tongue:

    Having wandered about in the desert backcountry some myself, I would say that what you're doing is CERTAINLY hiking! :happy:

    After I finished my half marathon, I mentioned to my husband that I walked intervals after 8 miles. And he asked if I could say that I "ran" a half marathon.

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