Weirdest comment... ?

I was leaving the office for a run and one girl says "Why are you still going running, you're already slim" I was like (in my best b!tchy voice).. "uhh because I like running and not everyone works out to lose weight".

I love this one. "Why are you eating a salad, why are you working out, you are already in shape." Um, how do you think I got this way? I also intend to STAY this way.

I get that one too all the time "you dont need to lose weight, why are you dieting" "you dont need to work out"

You're quite pretty for a redhead!

or

I remember you when you were young - I never thought you'd turn out to be so pretty

or

(following a hospital procedure) you have a really beautiful bladder.

Creepy doctor told me my abdomen was breathtaking. *right now is when you get your hands off my abdomen old man*

Yeahhhh, thats pretty creepy.

Since my weight loss "You're husband must LOVE this new look" or "I know your hubby's happy". As if he wasn't as happy before, ugh!

haha, I get that one, too. He married Skeletor HOPING I would eventually decide being skinny was no longer cool and I'd get hip to being healthy, then take that a step further and start competing. He totally saw it coming.... Some people....

"Your almost invisible" (I'm still a good 40lbs overweight)

I believe most comments are supposed to be complimentary, but talking about a person's weight is so taboo, no one knows the rules on what is polite when trying to say something nice. Saying nothing is almost just as bad. I say take the nice and chalk up the rest to an awkward delivery

Here's a conversation between me and my boyfriend about my weight loss

Him: "You've lost so much weight you look like a lesbian!"
Me: "How exactly does losing weight make me look like a lesbian?"
Him: "Well, your pants are getting really baggy and hanging off your butt."
Me: "You do realize that not all lesbians wear big pants, right?"
Him: "Well, yeah. But, my mom's a lesbian, and she wears big pants!"

:laugh:

This made me :sad: from :laugh:

And sadly.... enter all those that feel WE, the people who get the most RIDICULOUS comments, don't know how to take a compliment. Please. That is not it at ALL in most cases.

I LOVE compliments. Bring em on! They keep me going for sure! But...
Don't tell me that my husband must be happy I'm losing weight, like I wasn't good enough before.
Don't tell me how beautiful I am now that I FINALLY got my *kitten* off the couch.
Don't tell me that I have a 'beautiful bladder' (that one still has me chuckling!)
etc. without me shaking my head and saying "HUH? YOu said WHAT?" :laugh: :laugh:

FUN AND GAMES PEOPLE, FUN AND GAMES!

I know right. *SHRUG* Can't please everyone.

I don't really take offense to what's said because I know they're meant as a compliment. I mean, yes maybe I DO look 'good' for having 4 kids, but it would be nice to just be told "wow, you look great." Period. And maybe it's not just my husband who 'loves the new look', the more I work out and lose, the more I like myself and how I look which helps in every aspect of my life, including my love life.

One thing that makes me chuckle is when I show people a pic of me from Jan and they say "geez, I don't remember you being that BIG"...well I do, that's why I'm still working at this!

And this, ladies and germs, is why I almost never give compliments to strangers and rarely to friends. Because the slightest miswording or joking in the compliment can turn me into a "douchenozzle" as someone on this thread mentioned.

Very few people seem capable of taking a compliment as it was intended, and instead interpret anything said in the worst possible light and storm off angrily any more.

I weep for humanity.

Pretty sure it's still creepy for an old doctor guy giving me an examination to say stuff like that. Totally disregarding your douchey comment!

I was doing a modeling shoot earlier this year and the photographer told me I had nice armpits... I was like lol what!?

haha ! :noway:

I was doing a modeling shoot earlier this year and the photographer told me I had nice armpits... I was like lol what!?

Maybe he meant that you don't have the flabby skin hangover because of your bra that some women get. I know I get it. But then again, I'm 198 lbs.

"Amber! You've been losing weight! A LOT of weight! ... Your husband must be so excited!!" :huh:

Hahaha NOT "Amber, YOU must be happy" or "Amber, YOU must feel better" nothing like that... the first thing out of their mouths was how happy my husband must be!

This exactly! I was talking to a really nice man that goes to my church, I have become good friends with him and his wife, anyway I saw him at the school when we were registering our kids and he told me "Trish you look fantasic! Your husband must be so happy" I said Thanks but was like WTH? lol.

Pretty sure it's still creepy for an old doctor guy giving me an examination to say stuff like that. Totally disregarding your douchey comment!

Creepy? Yes. Probably intended as humor, and if you pointed it out to him he'd probably (and rightfully) be embarrased. And in your specific case, it was 100% creepy. My comment was not intended to address the "compliment" you specifically received, and you would be right to call the doctor out for deeply unprofessional behavior.

Some of us aren't so great with social skills. We try. We fail a lot. When enough people get mad at us for our failures, we give up.

And I've deleted my "douchey comment", sorry it (like many of the other things I try to say) did not come out in the way I intended, and it certainly wasn't intended to refer to your doctor acting unprofessionally.