People telling me that I'm too thin..um I'm MAD!

Haters gonna hate.

Seriously, I know that it's annoying but just keep doing what you're doing. They'll think twice about it once they are sick and on medication.

Personally I don't judge skinny or healthy people as having an eating disorder. My best friend is like a stick and it just happens to be that when her dad was her age, he would eat and eat to try to gain weight and he would end up losing weight.

It is all about eating the right things. Personally, I rather snack on small things i like then eat a big thing that wil make me uncomfortable later .

You could also have a faster metabolism.

Good job on staying strong and bringing your own food. I know it has definitely helped me since I moved into my own place and got more hours at work.

Ignore them. They're either ignorant or envious.

Bump... so I can come back to it later. :flowerforyou:

I can definitely relate to this. While I was working in a poor town where the obesity rate was probably even higher than the us average, I was frequently referred to as "the little skinny one" by overweight people. I was accused of being too skinny, of never eating, and when I ate meals with people, they looked at me like I was crazy when I didn't pile mashed potatoes and weird marshmallow goop "salad" on my plate, instead filling it with mostly vegetables and small portions of the unhealthy stuff. I am not "skinny", I'm actually pretty curvy for my height, being 5'3 and a size 5/6. But these people just loved to ostracize me because of my relative thinness.

Yeah, I get this crap from the in-laws all the time. Three years ago I was up to 275 pounds (at 5'10') and ate a lot of garbage. Over the next two and a half years I gave up a lot of the garbage and got down to 242. Back in June I started training with a karate dojo and am now sitting at about 206-208. Now the comments have started: "You're so tiny!" "You're a man. You should eat more." "If you get too thin you're gonna start getting sick." I want to respond but it's no use because these comments come from decades of ingrained mentality that men are supposed to be big and husky (both my father-in-law and brother-in-law are big guys). It drives me nuts, but the only comment I feel the need to respond with is the damn truth - "I FEEL GREAT!" No need to mention that NO I don't want bread, tortillas, fries, manteca, doughnuts, cookies, ice cream, or whatever, all the time. No need to chronicle with them all the work I do in the dojo. They see me cook all the time and know what I eat, so I don't understand what they're so worried about. They see me come home and smell the sweat on me, too. Sometimes I get frustrated and wonder what the **** all the squabbling is about. No need for that, though. I'm doing this for me and my actions, energy level, and health will speak for themselves.

It's all good. Imma get mine either way.

Ultimately, those of us who decide to take a course of action that involves reducing body weight have our reasons. These are our bodies and we have to do what's best for them, whether other people are comfortable with it or not. I don't really have a goal weight any more so much as I have a goal body composition and fitness level. I'm going to enjoy a quality of life as I get older that previous generations never considered (I'm almost 36 now). I WILL live life to the fullest! :-) If that involves family constantly whining that I'm too skinny, SO BE IT.

I'm nowhere NEAR emaciated in the slightest. However, my workplace is full of overweight people who eat like slobs.

. . . Why do people who are unhealthy--look at those who ARE healthy as having a disorder?!

. . . Don't tell me I'm emaciated and don't eat enough because I'm thin and in shape!

. . . Ughhh why do people have to be so ignorant? I've gotten it my whole life and I'm so tired of it. "I'm worried about you" "Don't lose any more weight, you're too thin" NO..I'm not too thin. Your PERCEPTION of thin is skewed just like the majority of America! Don't mistake emaciated for HEALTHY! There is a huge difference.

I agree that people shouldn't be commenting on your weight, low or high. However, it is difficult to have much sympathy for you when you start off your post, in the Motivation and Support thread of a website with many overweight people, by referring to the overweight people you work with as "slobs" and indicate that you assume everyone you work with who is overweight is unhealthy and doesn't exercise.

I think we could all stand to be less judgmental about people's weight, but the best way to get to that point is to model that behavior yourself. If I worked at your office, I suppose you would assume that I drink milkshakes all day and don't exercise, when in fact neither of those things are true, and weren't true even when I was at my highest weight. You can't assume everything about someone's behavior from their weight. It sounds like you maintain a healthy weight through healthy habits, but a lot of thin people maintain a low weight by starving themselves or eating low nutrition diet products. You simply don't know.

While our idea of what constitutes normal is skewing upward in some places, in other ways it's skewed downward: certainly any woman you see on a magazine cover is going to be called "fat" if she is even five pounds into the healthy range for her height. You can see the effects of that in many posts on here, usually by young women who are trying to get to ten pounds below a healthy weight so that they won't feel like "fat slobs". There's that word again. See how unhelpful it is?

THIS. THISTHISTHISTHISTHIS.

I told them one day what I ate for breakfast and lunch and they were like wow, you actually ate more than I did today. I was like yeah, you guys think I don't eat!

Devil's advocate, but you can't expect them to be mind readers. Instead of getting angry, why not just do what you did there and explain what you're doing and why it works for you?

I had a lot of friends join MFP when I was raving about how easy it is to track my food and how I'm so happy with what I'm eating. Your coworkers might still be in that mental space where they believe dieting=deprivation=not enjoying life. Educate them.

But lifting heavy ... doesn't that cause women to "bulk up" and look like a man? I mean... if she lifts heavy she might start growing facial hair and ****!