The crazy things people say when you are losing weight...
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"Oh, that surgery will never work. My hamster's cousin's uncle's best friend's neighbor had that, and now she weighs 8 million pounds and needs a crane to use the bathroom. Have you tried (insert fad diet of the moment here)?" Why yes...yes I have. A few times. And guess what? It didn't work for me.
Love this post! It's not just weight loss that draws these types of comments, there are people out there who know everything about everything and those are the types of people who come out with stuff like this.0 -
MIne too has been people asking me what pill I was on. For some reason they had a hard time accepting that I dropped 90 pounds by simple diet and exercise. I try to tell them all the time that I didn't start a diet I changed my life, but they still want to know what the magic pill was. Now I say water, veggies and lots of sunshine
The cutest for me was my grandma when she saw me last year she was impressed with my weight loss and then expressed concern over how skinny I looked. She gently tapped my leg and said Honey you look too thin, come with me I'm gonna make you a sandwich. LOL I laugh because I know that she is just being who she is and she is grandma and tends to worry a lot. So even though I would have declined that from someone else I allowed that to be my cheat for the week and let her 'tend' to her granddaughter LOL
Ahhh that's so nice :-) I love grandmothers! Lol!0 -
My favorite is when a chunky person tries to give me tips about how what I am doing is unhealthy and I lost too much weight too fast ... HUH?! Maybe it seems really fast because they aren't the ones doing it.
Of course, I have been at this for almost a year and a half so that is not fast by any means. They also are the least bit interested when you tell them DIET and EXERCISE ... imagine that ... hmph ... Do I sound annoyed enough or what? People SUCK!0 -
"Oh, that surgery will never work. My hamster's cousin's uncle's best friend's neighbor had that, and now she weighs 8 million pounds and needs a crane to use the bathroom. Have you tried (insert fad diet of the moment here)?" Why yes...yes I have. A few times. And guess what? It didn't work for me.
Love this post! It's not just weight loss that draws these types of comments, there are people out there who know everything about everything and those are the types of people who come out with stuff like this.
The best part is that these know it alls usually could stand to loose a pound or a hunded!
SMDH!0 -
My family of origin wants to know if I am "Flabby"...
they are such jerks:explode:0 -
Mostly I get comments from family. It drives me nuts when I spend days and days eating healthy and turning down all their snacks and fatty dinners, and then I allow myself a treat...and they immediately say "Oh, so I guess the diet's over now?" or "I guess you gave up the healthy eating thing, huh!" Uh....no, I didn't. I'm letting myself have a treat. It's not a big deal, and I don't need my family trying to give me a complex that I've "given up" every time I want to have a pack of gum!0
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How did you do it? I say, "Serving sizes and Play 60, who knew?"0
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I hate it when people try to help, but really arent.
For example, if im eating and i allow myself another SMALL portion (Lets say for dinner, and i still had alot of calories left), people will say "Why are you eating that." "I thought that you were on a diet" "You dont need that" and when i tell them why or whatever, they just say "Well im just trying to help."
Like... omfg. stfu. :explode: :grumble:0 -
Or, when people try to get me into fad diets. My mother was talking to me and said
"So i know youre trying to lose weight, and i saw this AMAZING diet plan on TV. blahblahblah smoothies blahblahblah 3 square meals a day blahblahblah only 4 payments of 29.99!" I told her how im not dieting, and how im trying to get a better eating lifestyle, and how they dont work, and she got VERY offended, saying how she knows whats right and whats wrong. -.-" :explode:0 -
Mostly I get comments from family. It drives me nuts when I spend days and days eating healthy and turning down all their snacks and fatty dinners, and then I allow myself a treat...and they immediately say "Oh, so I guess the diet's over now?" or "I guess you gave up the healthy eating thing, huh!" Uh....no, I didn't. I'm letting myself have a treat. It's not a big deal, and I don't need my family trying to give me a complex that I've "given up" every time I want to have a pack of gum!
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One of the guards at my work (a huge bulky tan guy who is - I guess - so manly that he has a hard time figuring out the difference between an actual compliment and an insult) told me this: "If I had known, when I met you, that you were going to look like this, I would have asked you out on a date right away".
Haha... I actually felt bad for him after he figured out that that wasn't really a compliment... Because he's been one of my most supportive people at work and still is... So it really didn't hurt me at all and I still tease him because of it
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We have a group of 4 that hang out regularly and 3 of us are on MFP and log everything. We plan our days so that we can go out to dinner and we all grab our phones and figure out what we are going to have. The 4th friend (not on MFP and not interested in losing weight apparently) gets super frustrated when we spend the first few minutes of our dinner out with our noses in our phones looking up calories and menu items on the database. It's not really what she says but what she does that's annoying... she will order the most caloric thing on the menu and then eat all of it right in front of us... or she'll order a big appetizer that she knows I would have loved previously. I just eat a small portion and plug it into my iPhone and move on. She does recognize and tell me (now) that I look good and she can really see the weight loss but rather than join us (which she could and should do) she says she's just tall with a large frame and can't really lose weight. Really?!?! I know that several of her health issues would be diminished or eliminated if she would control her portions. Mine certainly have!0
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People shouldn't be complaining about these comments from people! (except one or two ive seen)
There acknowledging your weight-loss and to ask if your on a diet is almost a natural thing in modern society, after all
that's all you hear about in magazines and on TV, not how to make healthy choices.
then after that half the people just dont know what to say! I wouldn't, I'd be Like "OMG,YOUR SO THIN" WOW!" as a compliment, then i literally go blank on what to say, lol.![:\](https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/resources/emoji/confused.png ":\")
congratulations to everyone who's lost the weight! 0 -
Now that I've dropped 52 pounds in the past 9 months, I get comments such as "you've lost too much, you need to stop". I know what my goal is, and I know, after discussion with my physician, what my "healthy" weight range is. I'm about 15 pounds away from that, so I'm going to keep going.
When I'm asked why I've decided to lose the weight, I am always happy to share my story. I figure if I can motivate or inspire at least one person to make the changes they need to, then it's worth it!
I do have to say that the ABSOLUTE CRAZIEST thing someone said to me, was after I had lost about 25 lbs and moved down from size 16/18 clothes to size 10. I was told "I'll hold onto my 16/18s for you for when you need them again". SERIOUSLY? It was rude and disheartening, but I sure didn't let it get me down. See, this was said to me by someone who did the surgical option while I started exercising and modifying my food consumption. Now, I use it DAILY as my inspiration to keep going strong...I've worked hard to get this far, and I'm not going to let it hinder me from reaching my goal!
That's great! Great attitude, I love it!0 -
Coworket: Are you serious with this s#*t, you trying to be 20 again!?
Me: No if I was trying to be 20 I'd be drunk and sleeping with your wife!0 -
When I was at my heaviest my dear grandmother (who is the same height but had a good 15 lbs on me) would tell me everyday that she would pay for my gym membership if I would loose x amount of weight. She told me that she doesn't understand why I am so fat and I must have gotten it from my mothers side (my paternal grandmother). She also takes great pride in showing me pictures of when she was younger and how she was so thin, I think in her mind she still looks like that and it's gross to hear that I don't.0
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Coworket: Are you serious with this s#*t, you trying to be 20 again!?
Me: No if I was trying to be 20 I'd be drunk and sleeping with your wife!
OMG! Funniest post I have seen on here!!0 -
your already thin why are you doing this? Eat a cookie/drink/chipy/takeaway ..... so annoy!! Im not thin yet and when I am I still dont really want to be scoffing takeaways and junk food Im trying to become a healthy person!!!0
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Coworket: Are you serious with this s#*t, you trying to be 20 again!?
Me: No if I was trying to be 20 I'd be drunk and sleeping with your wife!
hahahaha thats pure amazing!!!!0 -
I get extra annoying comments, I wasn't quite in the overweight category when I changed my food habits this time round but I felt 'big' at 62kg and 5ft 4, I also wanted to get FIT, so I changed my life. Now I understand some concern as I was a size 12 so 'dieting' seems like madness when everyone else around me is a size 16 or above. I've become cagey about my food now, I don't mention if I've lost weight because I get all the worried looks and the 'oh you're so skinny, don't loose more weight, you look ill' blah blah blah. We live with my MIL who particularly tries to make my life difficult by making the unhealthiest dinners ever and expecting me to eat them, won't even boil me some brown rice instead of pasta, moans if I do it myself. I get told I need to eat some cakes or pies almost daily, the kids in the family ask why I go running if I'm not fat (!!!) I get asked what diet I'm doing, how much I'm trying to loose, how much I've lost, what dress size I am now, why can't I eat toasted white bread smothered in butter every morning.
A few of my friends are keeping a close eye on me and understand why, they're the only ones I know in person who know I used to be anorexic. But they see me eating a lot of healthy food, see my food diary, my exercise and realise I'm going to loose weight by getting fit but it's not my goal to loose weight really.
The one that really gets me is people telling me how surely one chocolate bar, biscuit, doughnut, pack of crisps etc won't hurt like I don't know this, but they never listen when I say things like 'i already had some chocolate earlier' and look at me with pity like im lying about it!
Anyway this has turned into a major rant so I apologise lol0 -
In 6lb's by the looks of it! Well done
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When i tell them i just watch what i eat and excersice i always get with what pilss or protien shake im taking0
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it is crazy what people say i staryed working out at 369 but didn't start using this site till 357 so i have lost more than what is indicated and people just can't belive how fast it going
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I completely agree. I lost over 60 pounds four years ago and have gained about 25 of it back. When I first lost, I noticed that people were talking to me more, taking me more seriously. The only thing that changed about me was my size, the rest was still the same. I just don't get why people think you have become a different person and look or feel differently about you.0
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I get extra annoying comments, I wasn't quite in the overweight category when I changed my food habits this time round but I felt 'big' at 62kg and 5ft 4, I also wanted to get FIT, so I changed my life. Now I understand some concern as I was a size 12 so 'dieting' seems like madness when everyone else around me is a size 16 or above. I've become cagey about my food now, I don't mention if I've lost weight because I get all the worried looks and the 'oh you're so skinny, don't loose more weight, you look ill' blah blah blah. We live with my MIL who particularly tries to make my life difficult by making the unhealthiest dinners ever and expecting me to eat them, won't even boil me some brown rice instead of pasta, moans if I do it myself. I get told I need to eat some cakes or pies almost daily, the kids in the family ask why I go running if I'm not fat (!!!) I get asked what diet I'm doing, how much I'm trying to loose, how much I've lost, what dress size I am now, why can't I eat toasted white bread smothered in butter every morning.
A few of my friends are keeping a close eye on me and understand why, they're the only ones I know in person who know I used to be anorexic. But they see me eating a lot of healthy food, see my food diary, my exercise and realise I'm going to loose weight by getting fit but it's not my goal to loose weight really.
The one that really gets me is people telling me how surely one chocolate bar, biscuit, doughnut, pack of crisps etc won't hurt like I don't know this, but they never listen when I say things like 'i already had some chocolate earlier' and look at me with pity like im lying about it!
Anyway this has turned into a major rant so I apologise lol
I get this a lot too - the whole "once in a while is ok..." Yes I know, but what others don't know is that EVERY PERSON IN MY LIFE says that, and thinks that the "once in a while" should be while I am with them. Therefore, once in a while becomes 6 times a day. I know that people mean well, but most days I wish that others could just stop after saying "wow, you look great." I love to hear that, of course, but I don't think I will ever get over being the "fat girl" who does not want to talk about her weight - high or low.
This whole experience has made me wish I took more psychology classes in college! Haha.0 -
The most supportive people have been my old HS peers. I have not seen most of these people since HS (Class of 1978) and we don't really keep in touch (most of us, there's like 1 or 2 that I still do a little). I grew up in TN and now in Arizona so I would have a hard time running into them every day lol. But many are on my FB page and every time that I put up a new photo, they all congratulate me and say "Wow" and Congratz" and "you can do it"! Even people that I wasn't really friends with in HS at all... people can be so nice:) Most people really are being supportive. They ask me questions because they want to know how I am doing or they may need help themselves:)0
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mine was "you look great but when do you cook, clean, and spend time with your family if you are always working out? I would rather be fat than take time away from my family"....I work-out an hour of my day (as long as it takes most people to watch a reality tv show) so my home and family are NOT being neglected. If anything I will be around much longer for my family because I will be healthy and my family will learn healthy habits by watching me! 0
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My ex wife actually told me today that I shouldn't lose anymore and that I looked fine. That's the first nice thing she's said to me and I don't know how long.0
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Strangest was "Hydroxycut or SlimQuick?" I responded "uh, neither...I'm just watching what I eat and getting a little more exercise" This response was met with "Get out of here. I saw you eating a a bowl of pasta the other day so I know it's not watching what you eat" I just laughed and smh...people are idiots...I admit I used to be one of them0
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I forgot my ID for the gym recently so I had to give the girl my name and I guess my whole deal with my picture from last November came up. The girl was like "Wow, you look so different. Much better now!"
Um.............thanks??? HAHAHA!!!!0
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