Strange weight loss comments...

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

This. I find the "before" pictures more attractive in the majority of cases. I'm not a chubby chaser, I just think a female face with slightly softer lines is prettier.

Um...thanks for the insight.

There's nothing wrong with that comment. People just have different tastes.

I don't think I said there was anything wrong with it. But thanks for your insight too!

Old friends and old co-workers notice my weightloss, but my overweight mother hasn't commented on my 50 lb weight loss, she either doesn't notice, or it makes her feel like crap because she tries for a few days to lose weight and gives up. My family doesn't comment about my weight loss, well except for the family I never see very much.

I have a story, after having both my girls I was very overweight, I wanted to start losing weight so I went through all my old size zeros and size 2's I had from before, and thinking that I didn't want to be THAT small again I put them into a bag and brought them over to a family get-together to give to my sister (who is tiny), my grammy said "So, you are just going to give up and stay this way?" I politely told her that I am going to lose weight, but I don't want to be that small again.

My grammy says alot of off the wall comments about my weight and my mom's weight. She can be quite rude. She likes to go on tangents about how growing up she would get made fun of for being so thin...but then she says you can never be too thin.

I have had lots of off the wall comments, one person said I looked sick, like my eyes were hollow...this was several years ago when I got tiny before I became pregnant the first time.

I have also had the one "you weren't that big before" or "you look the same" I doubt I look the same after losing 50 lbs!!

But I am not doing it for anyone but God first, then me and my kids 2nd. I don't care if no one notices.

I was trying to convince some new friends to run with me and they said that I could not understand because they had like 50 lbs to lose and that you just can't run at that size. I said yes you can. They said no you can't. I said yes I did. I have lost 80 lbs. They said no way. I said yes and showed them the before pictures. To which they replied, that's not you. :huh: I guess some other person that resembles me only with 80 more lbs took a picture with my family. I said, oh that's definitely me and running will definitely not be easy for you but guess what, now you are going to do it anyway because you just implied that I'm a liar. Let's go. Score- new running buddies. :laugh:

^^This. When family looks at before and after they tell me that it isn't me..that the before girl is too fat....hmmm?!?

Once I lost my phone. I had a picture of me with my boys. I had taken the picture while I worked there but over the year I had lost 50lbs. My phone started floating around campus. People were trying to identify it by the screen picture. Although it was portrait style, very clear and up close, the entire campus was focusing on the boys. They looked familiar. None of them recognized the woman who worked with them and saw them every single day. My boys have met my coworkers barely a hand full of times but they were the ones they were trying to place. They assumed the woman was someone else in the family or something. Eventually it got around to me and I was a bit credulous. I had worked there at least a year at that weight and had barely lost the weight but somehow they didn't recognize the old me.

Felice03 (people asking if I am sick...I tell them yes...of being fat.)

The perfect response!

" Girl, if you keep losing weight, pretty soon you're gonna be looking better than me, and we can't have that." This is what a coworker says to me at least once a week! It is very awkward.

Oh, and this one really isn't about weight loss. But at the time I had lost around 20 pounds. I walked into an older patients' room to do morning bloodwork and she said " you have such a beautiful face and smile. God had to at least give you that since he made you so fat." Silly me I just laughed and said thank you.

Whenever I talk about my goals I hear people say things like "Why? You look great!" or "You're going to get too skinny". The first comment is intended to be nice but it kind of irritates me anyway. I'm still a sz 14 people, while I'm happy to be at this size and not a 20/22, it's not my goal size.

"You're wasting away!"

Um... seriously? I'm still carrying the equivalent of a medium sized child in surplus tonnage.

Ok I did laugh out loud on this one.

My mom asked me if I had seen the doctor to make sure I wasn't sick.

About four years ago...I had lost over 70 pounds. I worked very hard at it. I am a twin. My sister was still the same weight I was when I started..and people told me we looked the same still. It was hard to hear that. I had gone down several pants sizes and nobody could tell the difference between us still.

Just yesterday someone I work with asked: "hey, have you lost a bunch of weight?"
Me: "yes, I've lost 91 pounds"
Coworker: "I was wondering. I didn't know if maybe you had just gotten a haircut or something."
Really??? If I had known I could accomplish the same effect with a haircut, I could have saved myself a whole lot of trouble!

Another conversation I had recently with a client:
Client: "Have you lost a lot of weight?
Me: "Yes, I've lost 90 pounds"
Client: "On purpose???"
Nope, I just woke up one day 90 pounds lighter.... damndest thing!

It's kind of funny, people just don't know what to say. You just have to laugh.

I have one sister who is 9 years younger than me. She recently had a baby and gained quite a bit if weight. One if the young guys at our church said "you're finally the hot sister." Ummm ok? Lol

We had a special dinner with some visiting pastors last weekend. I got up to fix my plate and my pastor's wife said to me "You're eating??? You're losing so much weight, I didn't think you eat!"

Same lady "oh, you're too skinny...you need to stop". Me: "I still weigh 240 lbs!!!" Her: "ohh yeah you're right, keep losing!!"
LOL!

And when people tell me I'm too skinny I just tell them they haven't seen me naked - shuts them right up.

Oh I am so using that one!!! Nice! Lol

Went to see my mom and dad in Fla after not seeing them for a year. I have dropped 30 lbs. My mom said "about time, you always did eat too much."