Were you treated differently after losing alot of weight?

Well, I'm most definitely in the middle of my journey, but at school I'm known as "the crazy girl who doesn't eat" (which is obviously not true :-D).
Once I did a small presentation. I wore white T-shirts. I heard some guys talking afterwards that "did you see that girl? I could see her obliques, that is hardcore".

I'm from a small village where everyone knows everyone, and the old ladies commented that "don't get too skinny" and "you're very pretty now, stop losing weight". That was kinda funny.

Yup definitely!
I was unemployed the whole time I was overweight, once I had lost 50 pounds I somehow managed to get a job? Not sure if I had gained confidence, or sometimes getting a job is based on looks!
I have also been "hit on"...alot! I never used to get hit on...EVER. Me and my boyfriend (who i've been with almost 6 years now, so he has seen me at my biggest and now at my smallest ) met as friends first and our relationship built from there, so he didn't even technically hit on me lol!

One negative thing is I may have lost one of my close friends, she came in to where I work a few months ago saying she'd call but never has. She didn't say anything about my weight loss when she saw me (I hadn't seen her that much while I was losing weight but we kept in contact through texting etc) but I saw a "startled" expression, and since then she hasnt bothered to even text! Deffo think a bit of jelousy? (her weight has always been very up and down)

Just my experience anyway.

Being a southern boy and a geek at heart combined with being heavy has always given me negative attention the last decade. I was 6'4" at 250lbs with probably no muscle weight at one point about 5 years ago. Let's just say it was very hard to attract female attention and I didn't get much respect from others either.

Now I am running at 220 lbs as of today. I also have a lot more muscle weight. However my stomach is still a bit ignorant so my pooch is till around though it is getting smaller at a snail's pace. At this point in my life, I am starting to receive a lot more feminine attention now which is still relatively new to me so I do not know how to take it sometimes. I also generally get a lot more respect from others. I attribute this to my fitness as well as the fact that being a geek at heart is starting to gain popularity with the modern world becoming so into technology.

Funny how the world works....

I lost 62lbs and I do believe you attract a different type of man after you lose weight. And yes definetly many more stares. My family was always supportive. I had friends that were jealous and it motivated them to start their own healthy lifestyle, but overall my experience has been great.

For those of you that have lost a lot of weight tell me if people acted different towards you or if you noticed any other changes with yourself.

Did you get more stares?

Did you get negative or jealous reactions fromn friends/family?

Discuss

Yes, a lot more stares, strangers talking to me, and some men making crude comments.

I have been lucky, my friends and family are all supportive. Though now people don't understand when I say I want to lose about 5 more pounds, and make "obsessed" comments.

I have said before that this is like a social experiment BIG time. People in the general public treat me very differently and I don't always know how to react.

The last time I lost 30 pounds my family also was negative about me losing weight. I started off at a size 14/16 and ended up at a size 8. You would have thought I was a size negative 3. They were so dramatic about how skinny I was, when actually, I was just eating healthy and exercising every day. This is not the norm for my family where everyone is overweight. My sister is morbidly obese.

Since losing 120 pounds, people have definitely treated me with more respect and admiration. I don't receive many direct compliments or comments in general, but whenever my mother comes home from the bar, she'll go on for 20+ minutes about how some guys were down there asking about me, saying how "hot" I've gotten, etc. It's kind of creepy (they're all MUCH older than I am), but it still makes me giddy to know that people take notice of my efforts.

Yup! I have an uncle tell everyone up north where he lives that I photoshop my photo's that this really isn't me. He has never been this cruel to me. I understand that he seen me like the week before I got control of my life and I was really big then, but he is dead serious, he don't think that the girl in my photo's is really me, he does know its me but he thinks I have photo shopped myself, now I do have photoshop but going in there and taking THAT much off me, I would not look right if I tried, I'm not good at all at photoshop lol.

Then my cousin (this uncles daughter) she likes to find a way to put me down, she'll say things like "You are looking good but you still have a gut" or one time she said "Why in the world would you post half naked photos on facebook?" now understand that the photos go in an album called "Body transformation" for my weight loss photos. I'm in sweat pants and a sports bra, then the current photo in a bikini top and shorts, sorry I've seen a lot worse on facebook. She's went as far as saying I look like a porn star.

I have a friend who I use to be really close with, but now she don't want much to do with me. She don't invite me to go anywhere, I made a girls night out thing and wanted her to join but she hasn't said nothing so I doubt that'll happen. It use to really bother me that she pushed me away, but now I think I'm over it.

My husband can't keep his hands off me lol. I like this one haha..

My mom asks me for weight loss advice. I have other friends who either come to me theirself for weight loss advice or refer people to me for weight loss advice. I love those as well.

I used to be very scrawny, people now call me things like "big man", to which I respond "not big enough".

Their idea of big is so mediocre.

Heck yeah - I actually get looked at in the face versus a stranger looking at my body in disgust or disbelief. I have always been a very outgoing and warm person that does not know a stranger - but now when I strike up a conversation I get responsed to versus grunts or nods. It's a different perspective for sure from those that I have never met and do not know I have lost over half my body weight. As for those that know me, during the first 200 lbs. lost I got alot of encouragement, support and compliments - like they could not believe a lazy non-moving person like me could accomplish something that requires more than a little physical effort. Now I still get a bunch of kudos and attagirls from those that have true feelings for me as a person and great intention. Those that were just in it to see me fail or wanted to lose weight themselves, and have expressed their intent to me and then have not lost weight or even tried in the 1.5 years I have been doing this - they say very little and treat me as though I have some type of disease they don't wish to catch!