embarrassment after losing weight?

So glad to hear how many others feels this way. I also was playing it down and saying things like "you think" Now I just do what someone said, have programmed response "yeah i've been trying to be healthier" It is super weird when people ask how much weight you have lost though, or ask "have you lost weight?"

A lot of these responses are kinda weird to me. Not being embarrassed about the compliments as much as some of the people who seem angry or offended by them? Seems pretty backward to me. Personally, I'm pretty proud of every pound I've lost and continue to lose, and my favorite topic of conversation is how having the mobile app of myfitnesspal helped me to do it. Already got 10 friends signed on. Though I do understand others being kind of shy about it.

But geez, little did I know I could piss someone off for supporting them and telling them they're doing a good job of working towards their goal. I'll keep that in mind when I'm cheering the runners on at the local 10k next week.

i've felt exactly the same. i work with a lady who couldn't leave it at 'you've lost weight' or 'you look good', it was always 'how much weight have you lost?' or even 'so what do you weigh now?', and even when i tried to give her vague, you're-making-me-uncomfortable answers, she'd keep at it.
i tried just telling myself that she's complimenting me, she means well, and she's just being her nice in her sort of in-your-face way, but it didn't change the fact that she made me feel really awkward!
in the end, i just started avoiding stopping for long talks with her for a while, till the newness of my weight loss wore off. it wasn't her fault, it wasn't mine.

I dn't get embarrassed by my weight loss.. but I am taking time to get used to it. I recently referred to myself as overweight in a conversation. The woman I was talking to said, "..but you're not fat!" I was a bit confused until I looked hard in the mirror later in the day. I USED to be fat... but, because it's still me... just 60lbs less of me, I still have more or less the same mental image of myself!

someone told me I was 'sexy' the other day.. having never been sexy, I stammered a thank you and said, "I don't usually look like this." but if they tell me I look good, I can only smile and say thanks,, cos it's FUN to be this way

I feel the same way sometimes. Recently a friend asked me if I was done losing weight, and when I told her I still had 40 more lbs to lose (my BMI still puts me at 'obese'), she seemed concerned and told me I didn't need to keep losing.

Just know that you're doing what's right for you. My response to my friend was, "I'm still not at a healthy weight, and my goal is to be in the best shape of my life." You'll find that a lot of people discourage you from your efforts because they feel guilty about their own lifestyles or wish they were on the same path as you.

Keep it up, you're doing great!

When I first started to lose the weight I was discouraged that no one noticed. Then when they started noticing I felt proud. It wasn't till recently that is started becoming kind of embarrising. I think the fact that I let myself get so big and now I'm having to undo all the damage I've done to my body is a little humiliating. I totally get what you are going thru.

Wow I actually read through all of your comments. Thing is...I am not a "success story" yet as far as weight loss goes but it really helps to read about all of your experiences and begin to prepare myself mentally for the comments....good, bad and UGLY. I did lose about 30lbs about 6 years ago and i got all sorts of comments like "you look sick" or "not everybody looks good thin (mind you i was NOTTTT THIN!), "you don't look good, you look better with a little flesh"...or the best/worst one...."you betta stop or people will start thinking you have IT (aka HIV/AIDS :noway: )...and subconsciously i let all of that get to me and here I am, struggling to lose after regaining those 30 lbs and about 10 more!!!

I'm finding it much harder to lose the weight now...but being patient with it and trying to get my mind in the right place to not let people and some of the insensitive things they say cause me to sabotage my health yet another time...thanks to all of you for sharing!!!

I have had quite different experiences to most posters here. I am probably one of those people who irritate you! I love talking to other people about their weight loss, I am genuinely impressed and interested. When people comment about my weight loss although I am a bit embarrassed and tell them I still have more to lose, I always hear there comments as a compliment. When the occasional person suggests that I do not need to lose anymore, I just thank them, I assumed they just are not used to seeing me as slim. When I get to goal weight I am looking forward to the compliments and talking in detail until I bore the pants of people. after all I have worked bloomin hard.

Most people who are my age or younger want to know what I'm doing to lose the weight that I have, and I was embarrassed at first, I guess because I was going to a bariatric clinic and had to have "help" losing the weight. Now I just tell them...tell them how much it costs, how long I have been going, any info they want. The only thing that bothers me is when older people make comments like "you're going to make yourself sick" or "You need to stop losing, you've lost enough already". I've gotten to the point where I tell them how much I weigh, and how much the Dr. said I should weigh...Dr. being the main point. It seems as long as I have a Dr's approval for my weight loss, it's ok? lol