Do you lie to cut off the comments?

amymaria91

I don't lie because I am proud of the 24 pounds I have lost so far. When people ask I tell them the truth that I have another 3.5 stone to lose until I reach my first goal, once I get there I'll probably want to lose more but shall just see how I feel. They seem to be pretty happy with that answer.

As expected I have a lot of people that tell me what I should and shouldn't be eating, mainly my boss. I always say to her 'I have .... calories left, .... fat, .... carbs etc, shall we look and see how many calories are in your lunch?' Most of the time it shuts her up, if it doesn't I just sit and stare at my computer screen, completely ignoring her as she goes on at me and she finally gets the message

thibautseeker

My friend at work has been the worse - we often have cake things going on at work, cake sales for this or that charity, free cakes in the staff room to encourage people to use it more, birthdays (people bring cakes in), and when I've said (genuiningly) that I'm not bothered and not having any she always rolls out the same comment - 'a little of what you fancy does you good', (I do have little treats, for a start I have a double choca mocha nearly every day and I have between 4 and 6 handmade luxury chocolates every weekend so I'm not depriving myself totally of things I love just not having so much), I can't seem to get through to her that her idea of a little actually mounts up to a heck of a lot every day!

We had 2 years of 3 people in our office going to Weightwatchers talking points, food and can't eat that, to the extreme where they would hardly eat all day and wouldn't drink after lunchtime on the day they went to their 'class' to get weighed. It was so rididiculous that I didn't tell anyone when I decided I needed to lose weight I just got on with it quietly without fuss.

Beastette

I save my lies for the important stuff.

Should they say anything, I tell them that the folks (DH and self) who've seen me naked are pleased with where I am and where I am headed. Then, I tell them that it's the only way to qualify to have an opinion. *pretends to unbutton*

Here is where they walk away and never mention it again.

TourThePast

I really don't see the need to lie.

In response to being told for the umpteenth time "Oh go on, just one drink won't hurt" at a Christmas lunch the other day, I finally decided I'd been pestered enough, smiled and replied "You don't get to keep a figure like mine by having a three course meal AND drinking at lunchtime"

Harsh perhaps, but a truth that so many women on "diets" and who wonder why they're not losing weight need to hear.

Curvy1taliana

There are alot of people with good intentions who genuinely will pay you a compliment.......but then there are the JEALOUS, PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE "frenimies" who give the snide remarks like that you mention.............

Ignore them, and realize if they have nothing upbuilding to say, they have the problem.

3GKnight

I'm kinda jealous. Haven't had the pleasure of ignoring a 'hater' yet.