Strange weight loss comments...

jstout365

I was just asked by a family friend "You getting skinny?" I said, "Yes, I've lost a bit" and he said "what do you want to do that for?" I said, "To be healthy and sexy." He said, "You didn't think you were before?" He meant it in a very sincere way and with no negativity so it didn't bother me.

What got me started this time around was when my grandfather said "You look like you've put on some weight. You should take care of that." It was his 90th birthday party and my brother over heard and asked what he had said. I told him "Grandpa just said I was fat." My brother replied, "well he told me I was a bad driver." We had a good laugh about it.

ahadj

"OMG YOU ARE SO EMACIATED! YOU LOOK LIKE A STARVING AFRICAN CHILD!"

I'm really not that skinny (and don't think I could ever be "skinny" in the traditional sense - too many curves). See pic. Emaciated?!?!? Starving African child?! How is that a compliment?!

Kbanning82

You do look great! Keep up your lifestyle...your body will stop when it is time to stop! Congrats!

lpina2mi

Wow 1lb to go. It must feel terrific!:happy:

KaleidoscopeEyes1056

I also had a cousin say "how are you losing so much weight? It's crack right?" (CLEARLY joking...)

I decided that if I ever get asked how I lost weight, I was going to say it was because "masturbating burns a lot of calories." Just because I've had people ask me that before and they got upset when I said eating better and exercising.

lieselLalor

Someone said "you are looking skinny." Thanks, I said, I've lost 30lbs so I'm about halfway to my goal now. she said "What?! We don't want to look straight through you!" I just laughed and walked away.

Hanfordrose

In 1979, I lost 99 pounds. In January of 1980, my husband and I adopted a baby. Several people who saw me with our new son comments, "That's right. You were pregnant, when I saw you last."

Another woman who had worked with me a few years earlier saw me on the street. When I said Hi, she said, "Do I know you?" I told my name, but she kept saying..."No. You're not Sue. I know her, and you're not Sue!" She refused to believe me, even when I told her that I had lost almost 100 pounds. She walked away, think that I was crazy or just playing a rude joke on her.

Of course, I didn't really recognize myself at that time. One day I went shopping for clothes, something that I always hated to do. A sales lady gave me a dress and asked me to try it on, because she thought that I was picking out clothes that were too big for me. I put on the dress in a change room...then, looked in the full length mirror. My thought was, "That dress sure looks good on HER." Somehow, I couldn't even relate to that lady in the mirror. I didn't buy the dress. I bought something baggy instead...to cover up what I thought was my fat body. I could not accept my new body and mentally still saw myself 99 pounds heavier. Sad but true.

Months later, a friend gave me some of her clothes, which she could no longer wear, because she had gain some weight. That was, when I finally realized that I was 'smaller than her', and I always thought that she was thin. It finally dawned on me...I am the lady in the mirror.

lisa9803

I once made a joke (to my wife while at a family event) that I'd lost so much weight that I could take off my jeans without unbuttoning them. Apparently my Mother overheard this and said, "Nu-uh! I want to see you do that!"

Cue awkward silence.

lol...that's a good one

wendybird5

I decided that if I ever get asked how I lost weight, I was going to say it was because "masturbating burns a lot of calories." Just because I've had people ask me that before and they got upset when I said eating better and exercising.

:flowerforyou:

5auce

"You've lost weight, you only have one chin now!"

HapThompson

My colleague told me this week that "you've completely lost your boobs, you look flat chested now..." :-(

I'm actually really miffed by how much my boobs have shrunk, so I was a bit put out by her comment especially as while they are considerably smaller, they are still 34H, which is not flat chested (or at least not in my world). She's losing weight too, she had a gastric sleeve op about the same time that I started, but she's lost less weight than I have (through diet and exercise)... I think some of her slightly *****y "no boobs" comments are jealousy.

BlueInkDot

I have a main office that I work at most of the time, and two other offices in two other towns that I'm only at occasionally. I hadn't been to the Rio Rancho office since early November (a bit unusual because I used to be there at least once every week or two). I don't have to go through the security point as I have a pass to get in through a private door. As I was walking down the hall to my office and started to put my key in the door, the door down the hall burst open with 3 of our security personnel coming quickly at me ...they were almost all the way to me (with my eyes bugging out) and they slowed up and the lead security said, "holy ****...Mr. Wolf, that you?" I was just glad they realized before slamming me to the ground. They saw me approaching my office on the security monitors and didn't recognize me without my fat suit on...or much less of a fat suit anyways.

omg that's hilarious!

christina_c_marks

From a trainer at my gym: "You were way hotter before you lost weight".

wow....I would have asked him for a refund then. people can be so stupid.

fstephanie4

"You've lost weight...it suits you"

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yeah like its a hairstyle!!! I felt like saying "really? well chubby was so 2009"

fizzletto

"You don't need to exercise any more, you're thin enough."

Oh yes! That's right, because exercising is just for getting thin. Only people who need to lose weight are supposed to exercise. It's not, you know, for staying active and healthy and maintaining muscle mass and avoiding heart disease or anything.

RainClowd

Before I met my sons father and got pregnant, I had lot a lot of weight (obviously gained back hence why I am here) and when I went back to college after the summer break, one of my roomates (who hadn't seen me all summer) said "Now you don't look like an oompa loompa!!"

I was unsure how to take that but said thank you anyway lol

jigglewiggles

When I lost weight several years ago I had a friend tell me " what happened to your round face? Your face looks too muscular now."

hidee89

"You've lost a lot of weight! Did you start taking drugs or something?" - Rude comment from a regular costumer I was serving at the restaurant I work at.

It bothered me quite a bit, but I try to ignore the negative comments I get from ignorant people now. I put in the time and hard work. Why should I even try to explain to stupid people that I got off my *kitten* and worked for it? Haha.

heatherloveslifting

From a trainer at my gym: "You were way hotter before you lost weight".

wow....I would have asked him for a refund then. people can be so stupid.

Yeah, not my trainer! I guess he just felt like randomly talking to me so he could say that

moncheree86

I've lost weight before about 18 months ago working 2 jobs to pay for a divorce at the time. I lived with a married couple at the time. I had lost so much weight that they actually started a rumor to everyone i know, (including my ex husband) that the only way to explain the weight loss was that I had a meth addiction.... UH HELLO.... eww and could not afford it if i even tried!!!

monicalosesweight

I was finding out about some in-house weight activity competition and someone told me "Well, you'd be ineligible. You've already lost the weight." It was bizarre. I guess I'm looking pretty thin to everyone around me. I told him my goal was to go down to a size 8 from my current which is a 12 (bordering a size 10). Basically, I need to lose 20 pounds more. Either way, it was weird but neat.

I also had a fellow teacher (girlfriend whose known me for a long time) who loves to joke around who smacked me in the butt and made some comment about looking good - suspect it was a firm type joke as she knows I recently started working out in the gym. It was pretty weird. She's a good friend so I know she was just joking but definitely a strange experience.

Monica

breeshabebe

I once made a joke (to my wife while at a family event) that I'd lost so much weight that I could take off my jeans without unbuttoning them. Apparently my Mother overheard this and said, "Nu-uh! I want to see you do that!"

Cue awkward silence.

I'm cracking up!

monicalosesweight

I made the same joking comment to my sister and my mom did the opposite with "Let's not go there." Grin. It's funny how people react. It was pretty funny though to pull my pants down and realize I had shrunk that much.

mizzie1980

Keep in mind that my ticker shows my loss since starting again, I'm actually about 53 down from my heaviest. So, mine are:

I had been visiting my grandma. As she hugged me goodbye she said "It's so strange to hug you now, my arms go all the way around! It's like, where'd (mizzie) go?" O_o Uh... thanks?

Various friends and family members have commented on me "being done" or "being able to stop now", etc. Um, yeah, I'm still 16 pounds overweight! When I mention that I want to lose at least another 17, if not 25, more, I get the comments about getting too thin, etc, etc. I hardly think that a size 14 jeans and a large or X-large shirt is "too thin".

It is a matter of perspective though, they are just so used to seeing me one way. Everyone talks about how thin I am, while at the same time they are all talking about how another family member is chunking up. Odd thing is, we probably weigh about the same now! They are just so used to her being thin and me being fat.


ETA: Oh, and I can take my pants off without unbuttoning them also! ^_^ Actually, my old pants wouldn't stay up for the world, buttoned or not.

seena511

Neighbor,
How much more are you planning to lose? I said 90 pounds and she said, "You don't want to get too thin..." People don't get that I'm still 301! They guess I'm between 220 and 240...

I can relate to your neighbor a bit on this one. My dad was always a big guy and when I got older, he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and had to go on a strict diet. When I saw him six months later, I kind of freaked out because after being so used to him being so round, the sight of him so much thinner made him look almost sickly to me. I think it's just a matter of perspective because the difference can seem so drastic that you're certain that the amount lost is much more than it is.

it depends on age too, because if you've already got wrinkles that are being masked by the fat in your face, when you lose the weight there is suddenly not as much there to fill in the wrinkles.

UnoDrea3732

My Aunt - "You are looking so good! How much have you lost? Have you ever considered being a plus size model?!"

To be offended or not to be offended - that is the question.

bcf7683

Ran into a girl at a bar (the "we talk when we awkwardly run into each other, but we are NOT friends" kind of girl) and all she had to say was "Wow, you aren't fat anymore."

:noway: Really, b!tch?

PJ64

Mine was "Why are you working out? Are you trying to be 20 again?" Nope just the Best 49 year old I can be!

seena511

Ran into a girl at a bar (the "we talk when we awkwardly run into each other, but we are NOT friends" kind of girl) and all she had to say was "Wow, you aren't fat anymore."

:noway: Really, b!tch?

"aw, thanks! i see you're still working on your weight goal. well, good luck! that's a vodka diet, right?"

ericarae33

I was signing up for a new gym class and the woman facilitating it, said "wow you need to eat a cheeseburger"