Strange weight loss comments...

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  • Janelle173
    Janelle173 Posts: 396 Member
    The comment I recieved was even your hair is prettier. The same cut and style 45 pounds heavier. Really

    This has happened to my mom and I both. I think it has to do with how weight loss affects the shape of the face, thus affecting how the same cut can look different, even though it is not :)
  • pprigge
    pprigge Posts: 27 Member
    I get good ones and bad ones. The best come from ppl I haven't seen for years...Wow! you look amazing! And ppl at my gym....April you look great! You are truly inspiring! Love when those comments come from thin ppl that were never over weight :)
    The worst come from family..if you get any smaller your gonna be a stick! No on realizes how hard we have worked for this!

    Family comments are definitely the hardest, the best I've gotten so far is a look of huh, then, "you look more comfortable in your clothes" But coworkers and good friends are the best and always have lots of props for me, so I've learned to ignore the embedded judgment families have because of the image they have in their head of how they think I should be, not how I am!
  • wigglypeaches
    wigglypeaches Posts: 146 Member
    From a trainer at my gym: "You were way hotter before you lost weight".
    That hurt! Did you ask the trainer to go to...?

    I *wish* I'd said "You were way hotter before you started talking!" :laugh: but in real life I just looked shocked and said "Really?!"

    :flowerforyou: I like you bunches.
  • PlainOldElizaJane
    PlainOldElizaJane Posts: 37
    I've only lost 45 lbs from my highest weight.. most of which I lost when I was in Florida for 2 years. Now that I've moved back to my home town, I approach people I went to school with/worked with/were friends with, and they don't recognize me.

    I went to visit my own aunt at her house and she stood on her front porch and angrily yelled, "Can I help you?!" and then she quickly apologized when I said, "Aunt Linda?"

    "Oh my goodness, I didn't even recognize you!"
  • JaimieAG
    JaimieAG Posts: 48
    Some of these are great.

    In high school I was 185lbs, I dropped to 135lbs after I graduated. When I went back home I got a myriad of funny feedback. Everything from "does your school not have a cafeteria?" to "dang freshman 15 didn't apply to you huh?" One lady accused me of being on finfin & another thought I had a parasite. My mom thought I had cancer.

    To their credit the first time I lost weight I was ONLY counting calories. Didn't care about the quality of calories, didn't exercise, didn't spent much time outdoors and was a typical stressed out sleep deprived college student/waitress. 135 is still a healthy weight for my height but I probably looked a little pale and worn out.

    Now people just say leery things like "Okay..... you look good but just don't get sickly skinny like you were that one time." XD. Yes, mother.
  • dym123
    dym123 Posts: 1,670 Member
    I'm kinda worried about my driver's license. It shows me 100 lbs heavier! It is up for renewal late in the summer and I hope to be at my goal weight by then, I still have 25 more pounds to go.. I plan of taking a picture of it, just to prove to people how much I weighted and lost. :happy:
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    My driver's license actually says I'm 150lbs, haven't been that weight in 10 years. The last time I got it renewed, the guy asked, "do you want to make any changes?", he didn't mention the weight, but it was obvious that's want he meant. I said no. Yesterday I had to pull out my license for something and noticed that my face is slimmer than the picture. Fortunately our licenses are renewed every 6 years and its not up for renewal for another 2 years, so definitely plan on being a lot closer to my license weight by the time I renew it.
  • JennKie1
    JennKie1 Posts: 200 Member
    Yesterday my sister said she was the "fat sister" again. I guess that we keep trading for that spot.
  • Onaughmae
    Onaughmae Posts: 873 Member
    OMG...you are getting so skinny...to which I am sure they are all smoking crack since I *still* have about 70 to lose.
  • crunchybubblez
    crunchybubblez Posts: 387 Member
    I have a main office that I work at most of the time, and two other offices in two other towns that I'm only at occasionally. I hadn't been to the Rio Rancho office since early November (a bit unusual because I used to be there at least once every week or two). I don't have to go through the security point as I have a pass to get in through a private door. As I was walking down the hall to my office and started to put my key in the door, the door down the hall burst open with 3 of our security personnel coming quickly at me ...they were almost all the way to me (with my eyes bugging out) and they slowed up and the lead security said, "holy ****...Mr. Wolf, that you?" I was just glad they realized before slamming me to the ground. They saw me approaching my office on the security monitors and didn't recognize me without my fat suit on...or much less of a fat suit anyways.

    Lmao
    What a story to tell. :)
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    I hadn't seen my boss in months, due to being on night shift, during which I pretty much work alone. Saw him in December for the first time since August and he choked on his coffee and said "You're on that **** aren't you?"
  • P05T5CRIPT
    P05T5CRIPT Posts: 285 Member
    Get told all the time to stop losing weight or I will "fade away into nothing"....seriously? I'm still 30lbs overweight!
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member
    bump
  • Hollisss
    Hollisss Posts: 88 Member
    My college friend said, "You have so much air around you now!"
  • kbitzonefour
    kbitzonefour Posts: 114 Member
    I get told I'm going to look like a man and get too bulky. Lol.
  • NareenaTheGypsy
    NareenaTheGypsy Posts: 475 Member
    Ok I have the official end-all-be-all in weird comments about my weight loss.....

    Last night my husband had some of his guy friends over to hang out and watch movies, etc.. A very close friend of ours pulled me aside and very delicately.. but clearly asked me if the reason I was working to lose all this weight was so I could "trade up" and leave my husband. I calmly said no, of course not and told him I wasn't upset by his question but.. wow. What a question, right??

    Anyone else looking to "trade up?" *shakes her head*
  • Sako316
    Sako316 Posts: 16 Member
    Lol.. my funniest moment was from this girl who didnt like me... Id lost a lot of weight and bumped into her and with a look of sheer disappointment she said ... you lost a lot of weight.

    Then I gained it back later. Not this time. :-)
  • mlima14
    mlima14 Posts: 112 Member
    The strangest comment was when I had lost some weight ( which I gained back and then some) , this random guy came up to me at my bank parking lot and told me I looked perfect and not to lose anymore weight. I still have no clue as to who he was. =/
  • savbentley
    savbentley Posts: 103
    I've gotten a ton of "woah.. you got hot"

    I never know how to react to that one LOL.
  • missxjuicy
    missxjuicy Posts: 205 Member
    Have you been sick? I thought you stopped eating cuz, your bf left you. So, you do eat? You lost about 50lbs right? You never had a stomach but, wow ur looking good now! You're too skinny, You look like ur dying. LOL. ( I'm not even done losing and I'm like 159lbs not skinny at all.)
  • Ghette
    Ghette Posts: 350 Member
    You're starting to look better.:huh: I didn't recall being sick.lol
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    The receptionist on one of the offices I frequently go to for work (cute girl in her early) said to me while I waited for a client that my pants have been getting very packagey since I lost all this weight. I don't blush easy but she sure got me beet red that day.
  • Freidon
    Freidon Posts: 169 Member
    Had one lady at church tell me "You don't need to lose anymore weight. You're too thin now. Well, you're dating insertnamehere, right? Ok, you can lose more. That way you'll be the right size after you start having babies."

    For the most part, though, I just get told that my face looks different. Um, thanks?
  • nachodman
    nachodman Posts: 29 Member
    From a trainer at my gym: "You were way hotter before you lost weight".
    That hurt! Did you ask the trainer to go to...?

    Some people don't know what to say and should therefore say nothing...that guy was totally out of line. I had a lady at church tell me not to lose too much or I would disappear...sometimes people clearly don't understand the struggle that comes from trying to lose weight, the struggle and the psychological effects their words have...Great job on your weight loss and keeping your cool...
  • CarlieeBear
    CarlieeBear Posts: 325 Member
    The comment I recieved was even your hair is prettier. The same cut and style 45 pounds heavier. Really

    Perhaps your hair looks healthier? That can happen with better eating :)

    The main people who've notice and mentioned my loss are the waitstaff at a restaurant my bf and I frequent. They're inspired by us :-)
  • CarlieeBear
    CarlieeBear Posts: 325 Member
    Recently, a friend said I reminded him of a few years ago...that was nice.

    When I gained weight after starting to date my bf, he'd asked if I had started cooking again. Years before, he'd been losing weight until I started sharing my food with him. He was horrified when I reminded him he'd asked that.
  • KirstenTheFamilyCoach
    KirstenTheFamilyCoach Posts: 327 Member
    My MIL said "I'm so glad you finally decided to try to drop that weight".

    After which she apologized profusely and turned bright red. :blushing:
  • quietasariot
    quietasariot Posts: 198 Member
    "You're too skinny! You're going to waste away!"
  • Mpol2
    Mpol2 Posts: 442 Member
    I have a main office that I work at most of the time, and two other offices in two other towns that I'm only at occasionally. I hadn't been to the Rio Rancho office since early November (a bit unusual because I used to be there at least once every week or two). I don't have to go through the security point as I have a pass to get in through a private door. As I was walking down the hall to my office and started to put my key in the door, the door down the hall burst open with 3 of our security personnel coming quickly at me ...they were almost all the way to me (with my eyes bugging out) and they slowed up and the lead security said, "holy ****...Mr. Wolf, that you?" I was just glad they realized before slamming me to the ground. They saw me approaching my office on the security monitors and didn't recognize me without my fat suit on...or much less of a fat suit anyways.

    That is a hell of an NSV:laugh:
  • ahallen83
    ahallen83 Posts: 25 Member
    Comments I liked:
    "Whoa ... what have you been doing? Fighting people? You look fierce girl!" - From my step-dad
    "We were talking about this the other day, and you are hands down the healthiest person who works here. I wish I could do what you do." - from my cute little gymnast girlfriends at work

    Comments I haven't liked:
    *starts squeezing my waist* "Ooo! looks how small you've gotten in here! Bye bye flabbies!" - my sister
    "You're starting to look normal! Like, come here *walks into my bathroom and stands in front of the mirror* Look at your leg and look at my leg. You're almost like me!" -same sister (uhhh, I wasn't comparing myself to anyone in this, actually... thanks)

    Comments that have made me want to FALCON PUNCH:
    "Omigawd you look so skinny! Good for you! Your tits are like... gone, though. Are you depressed about that?" - one of my girlfriends (ahem - I'm still a D cup madam. Have not been seeing her much anymore after this)
    "Wow ... when you go off your diet you REALLY go off your diet." *My older, morbibly obese sister when I went for seconds at Thanksgiving. Pardon me, ma'am, but I've lost 108 pounds since my highest weight, thank you. If I want more turkey, I have earned it.

    "
  • Angel0787
    Angel0787 Posts: 190 Member
    I got one today from my aunt while showing my progress pictures. Yea, I can tell...your boobs arn't sagging as much, but you really should do more crunches and sit ups....Gee thanks? My stomach is where I hold the most weight, of course it is where it is going to come off the slowest... 1) I do crunches and other ab workouts with my 30DS workout, 2) You cannot spot reduce anyway... -.-...

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