have people noticed your weight loss?

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  • mhorn2142
    mhorn2142 Posts: 319 Member
    I have no lost 96 lbs and people just have started to comment. I saw your pics and you can totally tell. i think in the beginning, that people don't want to offend somebody. " Hey you look great. You've lost a lot of weight." translation to cynical people " you looked awful and fat before, but now you look better." Which is not what people mean, but sometimes I think people don't know what to say. People have just started to comment on my weight loss the past few weeks, and I have lost 96lbs.

    Keep it up! you look fantastic!
  • envy09
    envy09 Posts: 353 Member
    Today a girl I hadn't seen in over six months noticed from across a big parking lot. This was the first time someone I don't know personally has commented on it. I was really excited. Although she did feel the need to yell "You need to eat!" really loudly.
  • LoveAlwaysAlisa
    LoveAlwaysAlisa Posts: 111 Member
    I have only lost 7 lbs so far but people have noticed it in my face.....it looks slimmer. But I think its more from watching my sodium intake and not being so bloated all the time..
  • Taimarra
    Taimarra Posts: 60
    The people who see me daily -- my boyfriend and the other person who lives with us -- either haven't noticed, or haven't commented. I brought it up to my boyfriend at one point and he actually seemed surprised to hear I had lost weight.

    People who see me less often have noticed, though. And the other day a total stranger at the gym came up to me to tell me he'd noticed changes.

    I'm kinda with the daily peeps - I don't see the change yet until I look at pictures. Then I definitely see it.
  • blackmantis
    blackmantis Posts: 165 Member
    Im 52lbs down and no one has noticed.
  • wonderstruck91
    wonderstruck91 Posts: 107 Member
    yes -- but mostly from people who haven't seen me for an extended period of time. it's not as obvious to people i interact with daily i guess because it was gradual. when i see college friends though they are shocked.
  • IreneAdler221
    IreneAdler221 Posts: 185 Member
    Nope.
  • tachyon_master
    tachyon_master Posts: 226 Member
    Yes, and it's actually a little frustrating at this point.

    At first it was "Wow! You've lost weight", and then it turned more snarky when I continued to lose weight. I started to get some really rude comments about how much time I spend at the gym. Which isn't really that much to be honest - working out for an hour a day, admittedly every day, but still...

    I don't think it's jealousy by any means, since the people making the comments are a relatively fit and healthy bunch in general.

    It's weird. I just wish people would stop focusing on it.
  • Bob314159
    Bob314159 Posts: 1,178 Member
    I'm 33 lbs down, 4 or 5 inches off my waist, and all my clothing is looser

    My cleaning lady noticed a few weeks ago, my inlaws noticed last night- no one else said a thing - but maybe they noticed and think I'm sick
  • Ronngie
    Ronngie Posts: 295 Member
    Sometimes I think people are hesitant to talk to other people about their weight. For me, I have to lose quite a bit of weight for it to make a difference.
  • Liz915
    Liz915 Posts: 123
    Sometimes I wonder if people have noticed because not many people have said anything, but then again I am guilty of noticing that someone has lost weight and deciding not to comment because I don't want to make them uncomfortable so that could be why.
  • justal313
    justal313 Posts: 1,375 Member
    I've lost enough that you can't help but notice. Most notably, I work with a small group in a large building with maybe 3-500 people. People who I don't interact at all with have mentioned my weight loss and how impressed they are usually when I'm up getting coffee or water in the kitchen area. I'll usually say "thank you, I've worked very hard to become so" just to see if they get the Princess Bride reference.

    If I'm asked how, I just tell them I watch what I eat and I've become a gym rat.
  • shrinkingislander
    shrinkingislander Posts: 315 Member
    It's funny even though I run by myself, I see the same people out most mornings and there is always a slight nod but the other morning these guys (who are serious runners and in great shape) slowed down and gave me the biggest high-fives and the one called me the incredible shrinking woman. I think I blushed 50 shades of red, but luckily it was dark and my face was already red from the workout and the sweat. They said I should join them on their weekend long runs, you know, they only run 20-25 kilometres on the weekend. I just laughed and said maybe some other weekend, yeah maybe in 6 months. But it was in that moment, I realized something I kept calling myself a runner/walker but guess what I am a runner and now I need that shirt that says on the back "does this shirt make my *kitten* look fast?"

    I have not told my parents, whom I have not seen since last Christmas, that I have been losing weight. I cannot wait to see their faces when I step off the plane this Christmas, since I have lost 100lbs already and probably a few more by the time I go to visit.
  • snoopynut1972
    snoopynut1972 Posts: 49 Member
    I have lost 46 and only my husband has noticed so far :(

    I've lost about the same, and for me it's been everyone BUT my husband who has said something about my weight loss. :-( I've dropped 2 sizes and have had to buy a whole new wardrobe, so it's pretty obvious I'm shrinking. He's just a man of few words.....and that is the only thing saving him right now. LOL
  • ipsamet
    ipsamet Posts: 436 Member
    When I used to work at a gym daycare I would get comments at least once a day about it. I get them less often, but yeah, people comment on it a few times a week (not the same person, of course!). I usually get a comment every time I get ID'd, haha, that will change when I get a new one in January, though!
  • TommiEgan
    TommiEgan Posts: 256 Member
    I don't get people noticing. But hey I know i'm loosing the weight!
  • banks89202
    banks89202 Posts: 270
    I've lost 33lbs and NONE of my clients at work have noticed but I think they are afraid to say something. One of them looked me up and down a few times and asked me how I have been and she kept looking at me like she noticed something but didn't say lol! I think once we drop a little more people will really start to notice! Don't give up girl you can do it!
  • dlewis42
    dlewis42 Posts: 5
    I was 102.4 lbs and now I am 101.9 lbs. Though it is not alot of weight, people are noticing and telling me to stop loosing weight but I can't and I won't.
  • esealjme
    esealjme Posts: 14
    I just started (hasn't even been a week), but people noticing is actually what I am worried about. I work at an eating disorder clinic, so I need to find a way to keep people from noticing, but I need to lose a little weight in order to keep healthy. I am trying to get pregnant and it helps with fertility if you are as close to a healthy weight as possible.
  • freddykid
    freddykid Posts: 265 Member
    I had other people notice I still felt the same until recently.
  • flatblade
    flatblade Posts: 224 Member
    Everyone at work has commented and I have made it public. Family have noticed--I haven't seen my son since this summer, so when I see him over the holdays I expect a double-take. I will see a bunch of cousins and my elderly aunt and uncle and expect my lifestyle change to be topic #1.

    People I see occasionally have noticed. A lady I sang with in the choir walked up to me after church to discuss my weight loss--what my "secret" was, and several acquaintences have made comments.

    My co-workers made a second round of comments when I got new uniforms for work.
  • LeahMaria26
    LeahMaria26 Posts: 62 Member
    I once read it takes 4 weeks for you to notice, 8 weeks for friends to notice, and 12 weeks for everyone else to notice and for me this was true to the day!
  • jenniferinfl
    jenniferinfl Posts: 456 Member
    It's funny because I haven't lost very much, but my body has already changed significantly as my pants all got huge on me. So weird! lol Gosh, I remember losing weight with just diet and I'd lost 30 lbs and no one noticed. Now I've only lost 8lbs, haven't really told that many people I'm working on it, but, my brother noticed. LOL, he doesn't notice ANYTHING, I was so surprised.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Nothing to my face, but my husband gets a lot of comments about me at work.
  • valeriewxy
    valeriewxy Posts: 418 Member
    It's funny even though I run by myself, I see the same people out most mornings and there is always a slight nod but the other morning these guys (who are serious runners and in great shape) slowed down and gave me the biggest high-fives and the one called me the incredible shrinking woman. I think I blushed 50 shades of red, but luckily it was dark and my face was already red from the workout and the sweat. They said I should join them on their weekend long runs, you know, they only run 20-25 kilometres on the weekend. I just laughed and said maybe some other weekend, yeah maybe in 6 months. But it was in that moment, I realized something I kept calling myself a runner/walker but guess what I am a runner and now I need that shirt that says on the back "does this shirt make my *kitten* look fast?"

    I have not told my parents, whom I have not seen since last Christmas, that I have been losing weight. I cannot wait to see their faces when I step off the plane this Christmas, since I have lost 100lbs already and probably a few more by the time I go to visit.

    Love this story!! ^___^
  • chuckles9189
    chuckles9189 Posts: 343 Member
    I once read it takes 4 weeks for you to notice, 8 weeks for friends to notice, and 12 weeks for everyone else to notice and for me this was true to the day!


    I was about to post this as well. This is pretty much the schedule I've been on...
  • fishgutzy
    fishgutzy Posts: 2,807 Member
    It was not until I was down about 60 pounds that people at work started noticing. Even more so from people I had not seen in a while. Might be in part that the first 32 took a year. The next 28 took only a few months. (Thanks MFP)
    It also helped that I stopped wearing 2XL polo shirts out and started wearing some shirts tucked in.
    I still have 70 to go.
  • thistimesucess
    thistimesucess Posts: 169 Member
    I've lost 12kg (approx 30lbs) and I am fortunate enough to have got a lot of comments all the way through. It has really helped me keep going in the tough times. Like The person quoted two above me - I'm going home in a few weeks and my family will see me thus size for the first time in 10 years. I'm really looking forward to their reactions!
  • dub73
    dub73 Posts: 70
    Most of everyone noticed when I lost around 12-15 lbs. I must say when people notice, it does make you work harder. It also makes you feel good about yourself and the lifestyle changes you are making as well.
  • saraann4
    saraann4 Posts: 1,296 Member
    The first time someone noticed when I was losing weight was at 17lbs lost. It was my boss. She quietly asked me if I was losing weight and said she noticed a week ago. Also, said I was doing good.

    Now, after 62lbs, I get comments all over the place. Yesterday, I got "You are looking skinnier and skinnier everytime I see you" <3 that one even though I hate the word skinny because I am no where near it, but it comes from a good place. I also get the whole "are you done now?" It's like hunny, look at me, do I look done? I get comments everyday though, and I really appreciate them. I don't say a lot unless people ask me questions.

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