Strange weight loss comments...

I was just asked by a family friend "You getting skinny?" I said, "Yes, I've lost a bit" and he said "what do you want to do that for?" I said, "To be healthy and sexy." He said, "You didn't think you were before?" He meant it in a very sincere way and with no negativity so it didn't bother me.

What got me started this time around was when my grandfather said "You look like you've put on some weight. You should take care of that." It was his 90th birthday party and my brother over heard and asked what he had said. I told him "Grandpa just said I was fat." My brother replied, "well he told me I was a bad driver." We had a good laugh about it.

You do look great! Keep up your lifestyle...your body will stop when it is time to stop! Congrats!

I also had a cousin say "how are you losing so much weight? It's crack right?" (CLEARLY joking...)

I decided that if I ever get asked how I lost weight, I was going to say it was because "masturbating burns a lot of calories." Just because I've had people ask me that before and they got upset when I said eating better and exercising.

In 1979, I lost 99 pounds. In January of 1980, my husband and I adopted a baby. Several people who saw me with our new son comments, "That's right. You were pregnant, when I saw you last."

Another woman who had worked with me a few years earlier saw me on the street. When I said Hi, she said, "Do I know you?" I told my name, but she kept saying..."No. You're not Sue. I know her, and you're not Sue!" She refused to believe me, even when I told her that I had lost almost 100 pounds. She walked away, think that I was crazy or just playing a rude joke on her.

Of course, I didn't really recognize myself at that time. One day I went shopping for clothes, something that I always hated to do. A sales lady gave me a dress and asked me to try it on, because she thought that I was picking out clothes that were too big for me. I put on the dress in a change room...then, looked in the full length mirror. My thought was, "That dress sure looks good on HER." Somehow, I couldn't even relate to that lady in the mirror. I didn't buy the dress. I bought something baggy instead...to cover up what I thought was my fat body. I could not accept my new body and mentally still saw myself 99 pounds heavier. Sad but true.

Months later, a friend gave me some of her clothes, which she could no longer wear, because she had gain some weight. That was, when I finally realized that I was 'smaller than her', and I always thought that she was thin. It finally dawned on me...I am the lady in the mirror.

I decided that if I ever get asked how I lost weight, I was going to say it was because "masturbating burns a lot of calories." Just because I've had people ask me that before and they got upset when I said eating better and exercising.

:flowerforyou:

My colleague told me this week that "you've completely lost your boobs, you look flat chested now..." :-(

I'm actually really miffed by how much my boobs have shrunk, so I was a bit put out by her comment especially as while they are considerably smaller, they are still 34H, which is not flat chested (or at least not in my world). She's losing weight too, she had a gastric sleeve op about the same time that I started, but she's lost less weight than I have (through diet and exercise)... I think some of her slightly *****y "no boobs" comments are jealousy.

From a trainer at my gym: "You were way hotter before you lost weight".

wow....I would have asked him for a refund then. people can be so stupid.

"You don't need to exercise any more, you're thin enough."

Oh yes! That's right, because exercising is just for getting thin. Only people who need to lose weight are supposed to exercise. It's not, you know, for staying active and healthy and maintaining muscle mass and avoiding heart disease or anything.

When I lost weight several years ago I had a friend tell me " what happened to your round face? Your face looks too muscular now."

From a trainer at my gym: "You were way hotter before you lost weight".

wow....I would have asked him for a refund then. people can be so stupid.

Yeah, not my trainer! I guess he just felt like randomly talking to me so he could say that

I was finding out about some in-house weight activity competition and someone told me "Well, you'd be ineligible. You've already lost the weight." It was bizarre. I guess I'm looking pretty thin to everyone around me. I told him my goal was to go down to a size 8 from my current which is a 12 (bordering a size 10). Basically, I need to lose 20 pounds more. Either way, it was weird but neat.

I also had a fellow teacher (girlfriend whose known me for a long time) who loves to joke around who smacked me in the butt and made some comment about looking good - suspect it was a firm type joke as she knows I recently started working out in the gym. It was pretty weird. She's a good friend so I know she was just joking but definitely a strange experience.

Monica

I made the same joking comment to my sister and my mom did the opposite with "Let's not go there." Grin. It's funny how people react. It was pretty funny though to pull my pants down and realize I had shrunk that much.

Neighbor,
How much more are you planning to lose? I said 90 pounds and she said, "You don't want to get too thin..." People don't get that I'm still 301! They guess I'm between 220 and 240...

I can relate to your neighbor a bit on this one. My dad was always a big guy and when I got older, he was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and had to go on a strict diet. When I saw him six months later, I kind of freaked out because after being so used to him being so round, the sight of him so much thinner made him look almost sickly to me. I think it's just a matter of perspective because the difference can seem so drastic that you're certain that the amount lost is much more than it is.

it depends on age too, because if you've already got wrinkles that are being masked by the fat in your face, when you lose the weight there is suddenly not as much there to fill in the wrinkles.

Ran into a girl at a bar (the "we talk when we awkwardly run into each other, but we are NOT friends" kind of girl) and all she had to say was "Wow, you aren't fat anymore."

:noway: Really, b!tch?

Ran into a girl at a bar (the "we talk when we awkwardly run into each other, but we are NOT friends" kind of girl) and all she had to say was "Wow, you aren't fat anymore."

:noway: Really, b!tch?

"aw, thanks! i see you're still working on your weight goal. well, good luck! that's a vodka diet, right?"