Most annoying comments people make about dieting
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"What type of diet are you on, Mom! You keep eating and eating!" (I was eating fruit and a piece of candy.)
"I don't want you to lose too much weight." (My boyfriend upon telling him what my end weight is going to be.)
"Here, have this (huge) piece of cake. It won't hurt you!" (Ongoing problem with friends and relatives. They don't understand that I am REALLY going to lose weight this time!)0 -
One of my roommates (who can eat whatever the hell he wants and as long as he exercises occasionally, look fabulous) is always going out for fast food and usually invites me along. Anytime I turn it down and remind him that I'm trying to eat healthier, he actually gets really concerned for me. He'll make comments like "It's not that many calories, you need to calm down" or (jokingly) "Oh great, this is just what we need, you're anorexic now." He doesn't seem to understand that I eat PLENTY every day (I eat at my BMR rate) AND I work out... no, to him, any time I turn down food I must be developing an eating disorder.
I guess it's sweet that he cares, but I wish he would just understand what I'm trying to do!0 -
"You're still a fatass. "
" you eat healthy stuff, why are you so HUGE????"
" no matter how much you diet you're still going to be ugly"
And the list goes on.
OMG WHAT????
Who talks to you like that??
THAT IS AWEFUL!!
Whoever he/she is that talks to you like that - you need to say buh-bye!!!
Agreed! I know that with the weight loss my tolerance for things like this is nonexistent, I refuse to let people put me down. For the first time in a long time, I love myself enough to stand up for me!0 -
*You don't need to lose any more weight ~ Yes I do, I'm still 10lbs into the overweight category.
*Can you eat that on your diet? ~ Yes, I'm calorie counting, not cutting.
Best was at a meal when I'd decided to give myself a bit of a treat.. friend starts asking how the diet's going, how many calories would be in the plate of food I was eating etc. Completely put me off and made me feel guilty!
Other thing that bugs me is when people invite me somewhere and say "you are going to eat, aren't you?" They mean am I going to get a three course meal.. and the answer to that is no. I'll have a healthy main meal, and I'm happy with that. Dad was going mad over Christmas because I was refusing chocolates some evenings (although I still ate enough to put 3lbs on just to put things into perspective) and I feel like screaming "Does it REALLY matter to you whether I'm stuffing my face or not?!"
I'VE learned to have a good time and enjoy myself without having to be stuffing my face with rubbish at the same time. I just wish other people would leave me alone and accept that it is possible for that to happen!
Life shouldn't revolve around food. I used to think it did, hence why I got myself to 18 stone odd in the first place. I'm not letting that happen anymore, and I swear I will be a healthy weight very soon.0 -
"muscle weighs more than fat"
errr, no it doesn't!
^^^ha! ditto!^^^^0 -
Sister in law said to me: "I remember when you USE to be so tiny."
People talking about others (who are smaller than me) being sooo fat.0 -
"Everyone needs to eat 1200 calories to stay it bed all day long."
No, everyones different.
"I'm gonna shove food down your throat if you dont eat!"
No thanks?
"Your skinny, why arnt you eating??"
Im not hungry?
"Dang! you look bloated today!"
Thanks, happens to girls once a month.
And many, many more.0 -
I don't know why this irritates me, but maybe it's because I tend to hear it from people who never fought a huge battle with weight:
"The only exercise I do is pushing myself away from the table."0 -
"I wish I was skinny like you." (by someone with a lot of weight to take off)
Um - do you wish you worked out an hour a day and watched EVERYTHING you ate? Then you can be. Don't make it seem like I just "happened" to be this way - it takes a lot of work my friends and I can't STAND IT when people minimize the effort by making it seem like I was just blessed with a smaller body (well - that still has 10 lbs. to lose:)0 -
I work in a small office where we have a LOT of junk food readily available (not to mention pot lucks, and random "oh I felt like baking so here are cakespiescookiesbreadsetc etc etc etc!) and I usually have no problem saying "no thank you" and sticking to what I bring for my daily food allowance at work.... but it NEVER fails.. I get the inevitable "oh just have ONE... it won't hurt you to just have a LITTLE... oh I don't know how you resist and just eat that healthy junk!" and so on and so on. They fail to understand I am not restricting myself, depriving myself or anything else... I'm making healthy choices for myself and enjoying it! I bring a huge variety of fruits, veggies, whole grains and the occasional "treat" of cheese or yogurt... believe me, I am not missing anything! :-)0
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Until recently I didn't get any comments whatsoever. In the last couple of weeks I have just had these two:
Negative:
About two weeks ago someone at work told me that I was wasting away and that I shouldn't lose any more weight (I'm currently 208lbs and I have another 25lb or so to lose yet EASILY!!).
Positive:
Then a friends' mum asked me how I am managing to lose weight and keep it off because I look really good on it.0 -
When you eat something not so healthy....I often get the comment...."So the diets off im guessing!" It drives me mad!!0
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I really don't like when family members try and coax me into breaking my weight loss goals by offering me ice-ream, various treats, etc. When I politely deny their requests they get annoyed and tell me I can't keep this up forever and that it is impossible for me to reach my goal because loosing weight and staying healthy is too hard. Looking forward to proving them wrong.
* I know that their is that famous phrase of everything is ok in moderation but as of now that saying has been stricken from my life. I have tried the whole moderation game and I do not have enough self respect to stay within my portions when it comes to sweets. I have decided to go cold turkey until I hit a certain weight while keeping up on exercise because I need to know that I can say no and that I am in control of my decisions. When I have that self discipline down then I can start reviewing what I can have in moderation.0 -
my cousin says " your not trying to look like Angela basset when she played tina turner are you?"
another cousin " i hope your not still trying to lose weight!"
my mom " you only cook for yourself" - umm no i dont you just like everything fried
coworkers " I hate yall skinny health conscious chicks!" huh?? do I say anything about your mcdonalds tirades
Im sure I can think of more but thats enough for one day
I hate when people automatically assume because I eating healthy that I am saying they have to eat healthy too. Then they have to say something like "I could never do that to myself. Why are you eating ThAT?" like eating healthy is a sin and I am denying myself some fantastic reward!0 -
My mother in law noticed my weight loss, asked how much I've lost then said "Are you going to try to lose more?"
Uh what the hell is that supposed to mean??
When I was mixing my shake my coworker came over and said "So when did you become such a fitness freak?"
My father in law said "Wow!! Looks like that diet is paying off!!"
I said "More like the hours and hours I spend working my *kitten* off at the gym!!" ****head!!0 -
It's the holidays you shouldn't diet during the hoildays. dumb dumb dumb thing to say!0
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Apparently I am not allowed to have banana's, which I eat all the time before a work out, because of the sugar.
Hello obsessed carb/sugar watchers....it's natural. It's not like I am spooning sugar into my mouth out of the jar.
Sorry...I hear this sooooo much!!!!0 -
Me: *Sitting in the kitchen eating two slices of bacon*
Brother: *GASP* You're eating... FOOD..? I thought you ate like.. sticks and leaves and stuff.
Me: Just because I'm not making a subway footlong my personal b*tch doesn't mean I don't eat!0 -
size 13?0
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I just don't like when people try to force me to eat because I'm not fat. No I'm not overweight anymore but I'm not happy with myself still so I should still be allowed to lose weight or at least maintain it.0
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About 30 years ago:
Friend of ours, "You mean we're going to get to see you in there?" (Meaning as I lose weight they'll get to finally see ME, not my fat.)
Then he said, "I know you are pretty in there."
Today I don't listen. I don't want to hear how "great" I look as I lose weight. I am who I am, fat or thin. This is a health thing for me, and my value doesn't hinge on my weight. I am losing weight as a side effect of healthier eating and living. I just don't want to hear anything about my looks on this. But in our society we are geared that way.
I did explain on my FB that I don't want to hear it. Just let me live my life and enjoy my friends and family, no matter what I look like.
SO MUCH of all of this is based in looks. And I guess after hearing the good when I lose weight and the bad when I'm fat, I'm tired of it all. I'm 66 years old, just let me live my life and enjoy.0 -
My mom will ask me how I'm doing with my "dieting" and ask me how much weight I have yet to loose rather than compliment on how much I've lost! She also says that "you can't eat like that forever don't you think you'll gain weight back?" UGH!!!
Someone at work found out I was doing "Kosama-Total Body Transformation" and she asked "Can YOU actually even do that??!!" So I commented "Yes I can would you like to join me sometime!" (She probably weighs 80 pounds more than I)
I know some people just can't give compliments. I will prove the naysayers wrong!0 -
Grandmother: "This apple pie is healthy! There's fruit in it, and I used your raw sugar instead of white sugar."
Oh yeah, because every nutritionist recommends 3 servings of apple pie daily.0 -
It does totally amaze me how people feel like they can just make comments on the food one is eating.
I'm a vegan, and it never seems to fail, that if I'm eating a salad or having soup at work (in the lunch room), someone will wander by and ask me things like " you never seem to eat meat. are you a vegetarian? why? I could NEVER give up meat.".. um, do I walk over to YOUR table and ask about YOUR food? ever? I think it is RUDE.
Once, when I wasn't "dieting", I was just eating my usual salad at lunch, a new employee to the building sat down at the lunch table. "How's the diet working for you?" she asked. Um, what diet? Fortunately, my coworkers showed up and told her off about it...
Don't assume if I'm eating a vegetable that I'm on a "diet"... and don't assume that I want you inspecting my food, *****es.0 -
"Oh that was your salad in the fridge? Well I figured since your on a diet I'd save you some weight by eating it.....oh I ate your sunflower seeds too. Your welcome." - My sister0
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Simply that I am dieting. I am not. I am eating healthier...and will be until I die. The end.0
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People trying to convince me to eat their cake and whatever they bring in to work.
"Whatever Jessica, you are not fat." "Don't call yourself fat." or "Oh my GOD I am so FAT I need to lose weight!" (all of the above coming from my friends who are less than half of my size (258lbs). Do they have ANY idea how condescending, hurtful and patronizing their comments are? It's always the ones who are a size 7 who call themselves fat that then turn around and tell me I'm not. Listen, *****, I'm well into the morbid obesity category don't even. All you're doing is making me hate you and feel bad about myself.0 -
I hear so many people say this-Monday comes around, guess what they don't start and another week goes by! I read/heard (can't remember) something not so long ago that said if you are planning on a new exercise routine or diet it ok to start Monday but do it for at least one day before the 'official' start. Good advice because then there is not so much riding on 'Monday' and you also know what you are in for!
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I just don't like when people try to force me to eat because I'm not fat. No I'm not overweight anymore but I'm not happy with myself still so I should still be allowed to lose weight or at least maintain it.
i totally agree with you here. people at work are always trying to get me to eat some high fat dessert or some really unhealthy stuff. and they say because i am thin now, i can eat it. well, how do they think i got this way? and how do they think i plan to stay this way?!! seems pretty simple to me.0 -
That's funny. The most annoying comment I get also comes from my mother, but its the completely opposite. All I hear is "Look at how skinny you are!". Just because I am not obese like all of my aunts, or have a huge stomach like my mother, doesn't mean I'm skinny. I have a good 30 pounds of FAT, and am a size 13. I don't think that qualifies for skinny at all. Hearing "you should eat more, look at how skinny you are getting".. when yous till have 30 pounds to go is sooooooooo annoying.
yyyyyyyyyyyyes. i get this constantly. my family acts as if i have some eating disorder or something as if im wasting away! im still a few pounds above 'normal' bmi even for my height! ive got plenty of fat to shred but just cause my family is all sooo big they think im super skinny.0
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