People thinking you're sick after weight loss?

wow this sucks,

yeah same thing here. keep getting told I should go to the doctor in fact ha.

I have heard it before. Once i was grocery shopping and i ran into an old co-worker and she started with are you ok , whats wrong are you sick ? I also heard it from mom and other family members.

My co-worker worked really hard and lost 60 pounds last year. Our office had several calls from people that were just being nosey and wanting to know what illness he was suffering from.

I think this usually happens when people didn't think you "needed to" lose weight in the first place.

I know there was a guy my mom babysat for, and he was by NO MEANS a big guy. Nobody would look at him and think "woah, he should lose weight". We saw him a couple years later and he looked drastically different and my mom asked his wife if "he was sick". She felt bad after, hearing that he was fine & just had been working out and lost 20lbs. Nobody thought he needed to lose in the first place, so thinking about him trying to lose weight, was just foreign to people I guess lol

It must really suck, and I'm SURE i'm going to get this same thing at my office when I'm done losing weight, because people don't think I need to currently.......but TRY to take it as a compliment lol (might not be easy to) but people mean well.

I think our society is so used to fatness and obesity and people generally bein unfit and unhealthy that to lose weight and actually be healthier is like there must be something medically wrong with you lol!

The last time I lost a bunch of weight someone asked me if it was on purpose. After I said yes, they were relieved that it wasn't because I was sick. Why is it that they assume you must be sick and not just trying to lose weight so you can stay healthy and/or get healthy?

well my mother had no problem asking me if I was anorexic. and one co-worker told me my neck was too thing (kind of a weird thing to say to someone). since I was doing a lot of strength training I looked smaller than I weighed. However when I lost all the weight I got down to 125 and I myself thought I looked a little too thin so I bumped it up 5 pounds.

my mom asked me if i were making myself throw up the other day wtf

Nice username.

I'm getting a bunch of this since I dropped the weight. In my field as an attorney, clients compare my website pics to whom they see now and ask the question to me personally... in fact, RUMORS about my health are circulating around town I'm learning.

Very odd indeed.

give them a huge big smile and say ' no i've been working out and getting healthy and I FEEL GREAT!" :happy:

When my ex lost weight, he looked sickly. Extreme calorie restriction and lack of muscle mass can make a person look sickly.

In your case though, it sounds like you should just put a current pic on your website so clients know what to expect and don't think your website is current and you've been dropping weight like crazy.

I am having some health isuues at the moment, I have a tumour in a saliva gland (don't know yet if it benign or not) - I have been asked if my weight loss is because of cancer, rather than sheer hard work!!

I am determined that I DON'T have cancer and have worked hard for each lb

I think people just don't notice the change for a while and then when they really look it seems a sudden change

My parents , who are morbidly obese and fed me their obese diet when I was home, has described my weight loss as "smaller than you were in high school and it has me concerned".... :facepalm:

I started out at 258. When I was around 190, someone told me I looked 'gaunt' No, baby, no one is GAUNT at 190 pounds

find another adjective.

When I was in my best shape of my life (10lbs to go until I get back there!), my sister used to give me such a hard time, telling me that I looked too thin. Now that a couple years have gone by, she tells me how great I looked back then and that she wants to get down to that weight...for real girl? The worst is the people who tell you 'you dont need to lose any weight...you're thin already' when you know you're not. That really gets to me...who does that benefit? When I was 30lbs overweight, I had people telling me that I didnt need to lose when I mentioned that I was trying to improve my diet. People can behave strangely when it comes to weight.