"OMG how did you loose the weight?"

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  • acstansell
    acstansell Posts: 567 Member
    not only do I get the glaze over look when I tell that it's about eating less/better and moving more, I also get questions of if I'm doing anything "extreme" - ie, going vegan, paleo, what not. My brother and sister in law are going veggie/vegan, and if that's what they want to do, so be it. They don't eat meat for (at least her) moral reasons. Again, if you can make that work for you, so be it. Me - I like me a cheeseburger and I also know myself. If I deprive I set myself up for binges. So, I do what works for me. Portion control, moderation, and more movement...for me, right now, it's about consistency and motivation - that's what I'm currently struggling with.

    But, I've got friends family who want to lose and knowing how they think about food, I fear it won't stick for them because they are giving up too much too fast. But, I try to encourage and motivate rather than discourage. That's what they did for me...
  • cwannabee
    cwannabee Posts: 23 Member
    YELP!!! I hear/see it all the time. I tell them I am watching my sugar intake, counting my calories, and busting my rear! They are jstu like, UM, OK! I actually had an aquaintance ask me the other day if I had surgery like she did?!?!?! NO PEOPLE, I am just busting my rear-end trying to get myself healthy!

    I LOVE IT when you actually EAT at a gathering and they look at you like, "Why are you eating that? Arent you supposed to be "dieting"?"

    Oh yes, there is a woman in my Mom's group who asks me "Why are you eating that?" every time we meet up. She can't seem to wrap her head around the fact that I exercise and watch what I eat (portion control) so that I'm burning more calories than I'm taking in. Calories burned > Calories consumed = weight loss.
  • Mjhnbgff
    Mjhnbgff Posts: 112
    I've started getting a lot of "What are you doing?" I just tell them that I've been eating better and working out. A few people in my office have lost a significant amount of weight over the last 2 years by doing what I'm doing so I guess everyone is used to the standard diet and exercise answer.
  • footiechick82
    footiechick82 Posts: 1,203 Member
    I love reading this because it just makes me shake my head...

    I've never been really big, in highschool I was average, about the same size I am now. When I see people from highschool they ask me "How did you stay thin?" Really? HOW? I just smile. I'm kind of evil like that. I later invite them to come workout with me when I go to my hometown and they have the nerve to say "Oh, you don't have kids so you have time for that sort of thing." REALLY?
  • cgarand
    cgarand Posts: 541 Member
    I LOVE IT when you actually EAT at a gathering and they look at you like, "Why are you eating that? Arent you supposed to be "dieting"?"

    I have people do this to me too. I HATE when people worry more about what I put in my mouth than what they put in theirs!
  • larryc0923
    larryc0923 Posts: 557 Member
    I have been getting that question pretty regular and instead of saying "diet and exercise" what I say is I use an "App". This is true and it gets their attention. A few of my colleagues have subsequently joined MFP and are on a good weightloss journey.
  • TriClaudia
    TriClaudia Posts: 51 Member
    "I sacrificed a cow to Triglycerides, god of fat. I felt a tingling sensation and then suddenly I was dead sexy." (pronounced "treh-gliss-err-id-ees," to sound more pseudo-Greco-Roman, of course).

    Love, love, love this!! :laugh:
  • smittybuilt19
    smittybuilt19 Posts: 955 Member
    I have been getting that question pretty regular and instead of saying "diet and exercise" what I say is I use an "App". This is true and it gets their attention. A few of my colleagues have subsequently joined MFP and are on a good weightloss journey.


    That's a great response! I think I will start saying that as well.
  • VitVit18
    VitVit18 Posts: 103 Member
    I was in my mom's hometown on the weekend and I was getting this from friends and family... My only response was sweat, and picking *kitten* up and putting it down again.
  • megleo818
    megleo818 Posts: 595 Member
    I like to tell people that I've switched to light beer and taken up cigarettes. :drinker:
  • alevett
    alevett Posts: 79 Member
    Someone in another forum used the response "Well, you know *kitten* burns a lot of calories." I'm just waiting for the first person to ask me now so I can fire that at them. :)

    Funny
  • Richie2shoes
    Richie2shoes Posts: 411 Member
    This thread reminded me of an old joke...

    Yesterday I was at my local SAM'S CLUB buying a large bag of Purina
    dog chow for my loyal pet, Biscuit, the Wonder Dog, and was in the
    checkout line when the woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

    What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I'm retired and have
    little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I
    was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't,
    because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50
    pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes
    coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.

    I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that
    it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat
    one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so
    it works well and I was going to try it again.. (I have to
    mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my
    story.)

    Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the
    dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff an
    Irish Setter's *kitten* and a car hit us both.

    I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was
    laughing so hard.

    Sam's Club won't let me shop there anymore.
  • danasings
    danasings Posts: 8,218 Member
    "I sacrificed a cow to Triglycerides, god of fat. I felt a tingling sensation and then suddenly I was dead sexy." (pronounced "treh-gliss-err-id-ees," to sound more pseudo-Greco-Roman, of course).

    Love, love, love this!! :laugh:

    DITTO!! Best response ever!!
  • EvgeniZyntx
    EvgeniZyntx Posts: 24,208 Member
    This thread reminded me of an old joke...

    Yesterday I was at my local SAM'S CLUB buying a large bag of Purina
    dog chow for my loyal pet, Biscuit, the Wonder Dog, and was in the
    checkout line when the woman behind me asked if I had a dog.

    What did she think I had, an elephant? So since I'm retired and have
    little to do, on impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I
    was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't,
    because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50
    pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes
    coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms.

    I told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that
    it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat
    one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so
    it works well and I was going to try it again.. (I have to
    mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my
    story.)

    Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care because the
    dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stepped off a curb to sniff an
    Irish Setter's *kitten* and a car hit us both.

    I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack he was
    laughing so hard.

    Sam's Club won't let me shop there anymore.

    Ok, I snorted coffee. :flowerforyou:
  • csheltra26
    csheltra26 Posts: 272 Member
    just yesterday I had an acquaintance talk to me in detail about this "crazy diet" his wife put him on. He ate saltines and 2 hard boiled eggs for lunch! He asked me what I have been doing and when I told him he said, "yeah, I can't do that". Like icimani said, people just don't want to hear it - they want the special, quick fix then go back to eating like slobs.

    Haha!! So...you can eat boiled eggs and saltines for lunch but not whole foods like chicken, potatoes, veggies, and fruits? That is hilarious!!
  • csheltra26
    csheltra26 Posts: 272 Member
    I had someone the other day, who lost a lot after having their thyroid out, ask me how I did it, since she needs to firm up and has stalled, while stating" I can't exercise due to xyz, they can only walk." So I tell her about Walk away the pounds, but that is no good either, cause she doesn't like moving her arms around! really? Just shrugged my shoulders and thought" Good luck with that!!!!!"

    Best. Excuse. Ever.

    Wowzers!!!
  • silvergurl518
    silvergurl518 Posts: 4,123 Member
    "I sacrificed a cow to Triglycerides, god of fat. I felt a tingling sensation and then suddenly I was dead sexy." (pronounced "treh-gliss-err-id-ees," to sound more pseudo-Greco-Roman, of course).

    also, you've conveniently lost 69# ;)
  • stephdeeable
    stephdeeable Posts: 1,407 Member
    A lot of women at work are on Body By Vi...but not really sticking to it and not really losing weight. I am not doing BBV, but have been losing weight on my own. So other co-workers keep asking me about my weight loss and saying "You're doing Body by Vi, right?". Then they have to listen to me rage out for 10 minutes about my hate for fads. Poor kids.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,224 Member
    This always motivated my wife.

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  • mizzie1980
    mizzie1980 Posts: 379 Member
    I hear you! I've actually had people get mad at me, insisting that I was taking some pill or on some diet (atkins, south beach, what have you), insisting that I was lying to them. One woman even accused me of keeping what I was "really doing" a secret because I didn't want anyone else to get thin and look better than I do. Um, really?

    I also hate the people who do believe me when I say I move more and eat less, but turn around and say that they can't do that, they aren't like me, they don't have "willpower." As if I have this magic thing called willpower that makes it easy for me. As if that makes it so I don't want to eat the chips and cookies; makes me always want to go out in the cold and snow after a long day at work to exercise. "Willpower" is a $10 word that people use as an excuse not to do what they know they should. No one has it, some of us just suck it up and do it anyway.
  • smittybuilt19
    smittybuilt19 Posts: 955 Member
    I hear you! I've actually had people get mad at me, insisting that I was taking some pill or on some diet (atkins, south beach, what have you), insisting that I was lying to them. One woman even accused me of keeping what I was "really doing" a secret because I didn't want anyone else to get thin and look better than I do. Um, really?

    I also hate the people who do believe me when I say I move more and eat less, but turn around and say that they can't do that, they aren't like me, they don't have "willpower." As if I have this magic thing called willpower that makes it easy for me. As if that makes it so I don't want to eat the chips and cookies; makes me always want to go out in the cold and snow after a long day at work to exercise. "Willpower" is a $10 word that people use as an excuse not to do what they know they should. No one has it, some of us just suck it up and do it anyway.

    Very well said^^
  • Corkline
    Corkline Posts: 107
    I get the 'Ya riiiight' look when I say its tons of exercise and sensible eating. I swear they'd be more inclined to believe me if I said 'Meth' :grumble:

    I'mma start using this. Thanks!
  • EatClean_WashUrNuts
    EatClean_WashUrNuts Posts: 1,590 Member
    1. Dont expect overnight success.
    2. Stay true and honest with yourself
    3. Take action on the right choices that bring you success!
    4. Leave the "fad" crap alone.
  • astrampe
    astrampe Posts: 2,169 Member
    :sad: I was just told this morning (on a fb group) by someone that I should not tell people who wants to take diet pills that it is unhealthy, as "you have know idea what it feels like to be obese, and exercise and eating healthy is not easy and not always possible if you are obese"....And that people who are not obese should not tell other people how to do it....
    Uhm,,,yeah, I was obese, I did it the hard way, and therefore know what I am talking about.....
  • erinsueburns
    erinsueburns Posts: 865 Member
    I say I use an app too.

    Then I also go with my replace lists.

    I replaced:

    Pre packaged breads with breads I make myself...by hand.
    breads in general with more veggies (still not enough but I no longer run screaming from them in terror).
    McDonalds/Burger King/Sonic with food I cooked at home.
    My largest plate servings with foods I weighed on a scale, and use a bowl to eat out of (a full bowl somehow seems more filling than a half empty plate)
    my morning fake as hell coffee creamer with portion controlled real half and half, and then with protein powder and greek yogurt.
    my prepackaged trail mixes with nuts from the baking aisle
    my snickers and twix and butterfingers with extra dark chocolate
    my low fat, low protein, high carb doctor prescribed diet with one full of healthy fats per recommendations of the Harvard School of Public Health.

    Then if all else fails I say "I have consulted with the dragon in my garage."
  • CherokeeBabe
    CherokeeBabe Posts: 1,704 Member
    *Lose*
  • crazy4lulu
    crazy4lulu Posts: 822 Member
    eat clean...... train dirty!!! that is all!!!
  • Nessiechickie
    Nessiechickie Posts: 1,392 Member
    I sold my soul to the devil and return he made me SMEXY!
  • ndirish4life
    ndirish4life Posts: 17
    I always say "I quite eating fast food and started working out." They can't believe it. I agree, people want the quick fix, then to go back to eating like slobs.
  • GBOGH_5
    GBOGH_5 Posts: 174 Member
    Wait until people start whispering about how you must be using cocaine.

    It's a real blast to walk around rubbing your nose and sniffling a bunch when around those people.

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