"OMG how did you loose the weight?"

My fav is:
"Your just a girl who starves yourself or pukes after eating"..:huh:
I eat/snack more then anyone I work with and I'm the smallest one here.
And for puking it only happens if I drink way too much. :flowerforyou:

i love this thread, I'm only commenting so I can come back and get some ideas for great comebacks, since "eat less/exercise more" doesn't seem to go over.

*Lose*

Loose can also be a verb. It's kind of a stretch, but you can interpret the topic title as grammatically correct with the given spelling.

i.e. "I have loosed my fat upon the earth. May god have mercy on mankind." kind of like "Let loose the kraken!" or as google gives an example: "The hounds have been loosed"

I have lost 38lbs so far and no one has noticed (

I had a friend from work (male friend) pull me aside and say to me, "I really hope this does not offend you, and I know its not "polically correct" to do so these days but you look really good, and i cant help but notice all the weight you have lost. I told him thanks and he better start telling me more often because i needed the motivation! He said most guys, especially in the workplace, feel like they can't because these days everyone is so afraid of sexual harrassment! So just know that I bet people are noticing plenty, but are just shy about saying anything.....

I absolutely LOVE when they come up and say something like "WOW. you look great, what have you been doing?".. my answer of course is to eat sensibly, real foods nothing processed, track what I eat, and to work out 5+ hours a week. the Hilarious part is how often they will process this information and then say "oh, what you should try is (insert BS diet craze here)..."

You know.. you can lose weight by drinking a shake for 2 meals a day.. TRUE, but are you willing do to that for the rest of your life? I am NOT. I will have real food, thanks.

this might be my favorite thread... yes people ask, and I tell them, and then get the same thing.... But, especially at work, when people ask me, they usually have their phone in their hand and will show me MFP.... it makes me laugh.. I tell them YES TRUST ME IT HELPS!!!! So i am glad some people are getting it. Here is what is stumping me lately. I have a girlfriend who was significantly overweight, but no more than i was. She opted for gastric bypass. I watched her lose all that weight (took about a year) and then get surgery for her tummy tuck and breast augmentation. So she spent about 12-15K it has been about 18 months, and she looks pretty good. I have spent admittingly about $2400.00 for my trainer to teach me about strength training, nutrition and workouts. I have been working out since August, lost almost as much weight as my friend, BUT I feel so much better and am so much healthier! I am pretty solid with great muscle tone now, and i still have about 30 lbs to go! Why would someone choose all that pain and scary side effects and complications when they can do this for a heck of a lot less, and feel better quicker? I hope that does not sound like I am judging, i am just really curious as to why?

That's whay boggles my mind about WLS.....maybe for the small % that have actual metabolic issues that need it.....
But NO WAY anyone is cutting me open for any reason unless it's something like tumor removal.

I'm 40 and have never even had stiches, and with any luck I'm keeping it that way.

I'm so sick of people asking, hearing that there is no magic, and completely tuning me out. I have, however, printed off cards with www.myfitnesspal.com and my user name on it if they seem genuinely interested. Those people are far and few between and usually approach me at the gym when neither of us have anything to write with.

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.

I've told several co-workers about MFP since they asked and they all say they'll look into it. One did, and it's downloaded on her phone but do any of them actually use it? no.
Oh except for one guy, but he already had it, he lost some weight but then his schedule got wayy to busy and I guess he stopped logging. He actually told me that since he can't make time to work out he doesn't see the point in using MFP since you can't lose weight without exercise ... >.>

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.

If I had known THIS I would not have wasted all that Time & Money Snorting Sensa!!!!

"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).

Oh, that is JOYOUS, can I have that, pretty pretty please!

I am determined to do this with simple portion control and exercise even if it kills me. Just to prove a point...

I love it, especially after I've explained it and then they say....but I couldn't do that, I'd miss chocolate too much. I have chocolate every single night unless I just genuinely don't fancy any. I work it into my diary the night before at the same time as I'm weighing my grapes and adding all my other stuff for the next day in. I explain this to them, 'Oh you have to weigh food and write stuff down? I couldn't be doing with all that faff!!!' faff??!! it's the easiest thing I've ever done compared to weight watchers/low carb etc. I just need to know how many calories are in what I eat, simples. How is this so hard for people to get their head round? Also, it's my way of being accountable and I love it, I am taking responsibility for my weight and my health and it is a great feeling Some people honestly do want to hear unless it's something where they have to put in absolutely no effort or thought into it and results in the weight just disappearing from their bodies.

I love the excuses too, especially the one someone else mentioned about having time because of not having kids. No I don't but I'm still plenty busy with the 60-70 hours a week I spend out of the house at work, on top of keeping my house in order, general day to day stuff, having a life and so on and so on. I also point out that plenty of people on mfp do have kids and still miraculously manage it. At the end of the day if you really want it you'll do it, everyone has a potential excuse kids/work/illness/age/time etc etc but it's up to you whether you choose to use that excuse to get in your own way or not. I've done it myself as I'm sure some of us here have in the past but I'm so glad I stopped doing it and got my *kitten* in gear as I'm starting to actually feel proud of myself for once about something

Yes, when I tell people that they have to change the way they eat, they look like that's not gonna happen. I want to say (but don't) "well, I guess you'll be asking me this next year when you are even larger or haven't lost anything". These are people that work out all of the time; they bust their butt in the gym and make no progress but keep doing the same thing. They also act like they are gonna try a new type of diet (that I know will not work for them because it's not achievable long term). I try to tell them that losing 1 -2 lbs a week is a great weight loss and they look at me like that'll take too long.
They want to lose 75 lbs in 4 - 6 months. I mean, I know some people are successful in doing that and keeping it off but I don't personally know anyone that has.... PLUS if they lose 1 lb a week, that's freaking 52 lbs (yeah, they'll end up going through plateaus) but seriously... since when was losing 50 lbs not enough.

It drives me up the wall, but it's in their brains... you can't fix that for them; they have to fix it themselves.

I think people wanting a magic cure has a lot to do with all the marketing of crazy ridiculous products. I got a flier the other day saying I could train my body to shed 60lbs in 30 days by sleeping....

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