Unsolicited advice

i also get people calling me "skinny minnie" and that im melting away....when im still considered obese. um. just say "great job" and leave it be. most of the time i laugh, say "im still fat, F%$k off."

I just tell big mouthed people that now that I am in better shape, my wife and I have more frequent and better sex. Then I offer to show them my new piercings.

I truly LOL'd. My co-worker gave me a funny look. I can relate

I get advice from everyone telling me what i need to do. As if I was not the one who lost 50lbs all on my own!

^^^ Love this! ^^^

I also see people getting advice from people on MFP who have no background on anything with athletics,nutrition,working out or anything and have been on their journey for 5 minutes and already know everything and are an authority for advice.

All the time...they also want to know the secret of my sucess...I'm not sure why it is more acceptable to say "Stress, Tequila and Men" than hard work lifting weights.

this^^^^^^^ but i usually say cocaine, laxatives and lots of sex lol
i get told all the time by my (overweight) friends that I'm getting far to thin, I'm starving myself, i work out far to much, and I'm just going to put it all back on.
firstly yes I'm thinner now than i have been since i was a teenager but i'm far from thin
secondly if i just sit on my bum all day i have still got 1500 calories to go at and when the right food choices are made that can be a huge amount of delicious food
yes i might work out too much compared to some people, but only because i have a 3 mile round trip to school twice a day, i don't drive so this is unavoidable, i also (weather permitting) add a couple of miles on to the morning walk whenever i can because my youngest daughter loves to be out in the fresh air, i also try to run a couple of times a week though admittedly I've been a bit of a slacker since august, and i do workout dvds if i get a spare half hour but with 4 kids one of them a very demanding toddler you can imagine how often that happens
and as for putting it all back on, only time will tell but i have worked my butt off to lose 87lbs, I've still got about another 14 to go minimum, and find people willing me to fail really spiteful

my mum told me a joke years ago and now I've started using the joke as a way of dealing with unsolicited advice

A well to do woman is talking to the woman in the next bed at the maternity hospital.

"This will be my third child", she said. "How many children have you had?"

"This'll be me second" said the woman.

The posh woman went on... "On the birth of my first child, my husband bought me a Ferrari."

"Very nice", said the woman

"Then on the birth of my second child, he took me on a luxury Carribean cruise."

"Very nice", came the reply.

"Tell me, what did your husband get for you on the birth of you first child?"

"He got me elocution lessons" said the woman.

"Elocution lessons?"

"Yeah, I used to say "Go f**k yourself", now I say "Very nice"

"He got me elocution lessons" said the woman.

"Elocution lessons?"

"Yeah, I used to say "Go f**k yourself", now I say "Very nice"

Awesome!

I know what you mean. I had a coworker tell me how to eat, come on now I have lost 70 lbs and you are going to now tell me how to eat. I guess they mean well but sometimes people just don't think.

You could be nasty and say, "How do you find doing this works for you?" Or "Oh, so if I cut this out completely, I can lose weight?"

I find it frustrating as heck too but to each their own.