Do people actually comment on your weight loss?

Count yourself lucky!

When I had lost 18lb I asked my bed-partner to tell me where he thought it was missing from. After a thorough and detailed inspection he announced that he cannot see any difference in my body whatsoever <sigh>.

Well I am just hoping that one day he'll go to grab my fat azz and notice there is less of it LOL

I read a comment from someone on here saying if you loose regularly over a number of months, you will notice in 6 weeks, your family will notice in 8 weeks an your friends in 12 weeks, I guess that means at about 12lbs, 16lbs and 24lbs! Although I guess many ar frightened to comment. (well that's what I keep telling myself xx)

I think people who see you everyday are less likely to notice since its gradual?

My mother always notices anyway but my dad works abroad for a month and home for a month, and when he only really notices after he has been away for a while. My boyfriend says he notices it but I am not convinced! I haven't lost enough for my colleagues to comment on it either. Think it depends on where it comes off!

My closest friends comment on my weight loss. Some of them have been telling me how proud they are of me. It's nice to hear. One of them suggested that I go to the grocery store and put together the amount of weight I have lost in packets of butter so that I could understand it myself. I did! She also suggested I get a spare fridge and put a new pack of butter in it every time I lost the same amount of weight... I havent gone that far

Some do, some don't - but then I'm not doing it for complements... I'm doing it for me.

the short answer is no. I've lost 30lb in total since September last year and the only people to notice were my best friend and my mum. I have dropped a clothes size and I noticed my stomach is looking smaller but clearly no one has!

the short answer is no. I've lost 30lb in total since September last year and the only people to notice were my best friend and my mum. I have dropped a clothes size and I noticed my stomach is looking smaller but clearly no one has!

Sorry to be blunt- but you are confusing "commenting" with "noticing". Just because people did not comment does not mean they did not notice. I assure you, the vast majority of people notice you lost 30lb. Many will not "comment" because they are jealous. Many will not comment-because at work any comments relating to looks (makeup, dress, weight, age, etc) are off limits. Etc. So enjoy the weight loss!

My DH notices and comments but then he knows how much effort I put in, and he gets to see me naked, so I'd be pretty bummed if he didn't notice or comment.

My friends and coworkers who I see every day, nope. My in laws who see me a couple of times a week no (MIL kept marveling at a mutual friend who had lost 7kg which was incidentally the exact same weight that I had lost)

My parents were overseas for 3 months and when they came back mum couldn't stop commenting. Likewise a colleague at work was on leave for 2 months and she still hasn't picked her jaw up from the floor, keeps asking what the secret is, as if there is one!

My experience is that no male would ever comment on my weight loss (except for my husband and brother). Although one of my colleagues keeps asking me if I have changed my hair or bought new clothes because I look different. It's funny to see him scratching his head.

I've lost about 50lbs since moving overseas. My friends here saw me put on weight (about 35 lbs) and I have now lost that plus some.

People notice, even if they never come right out and say "you've lost weight!". Nobody ever says anything like that to me. I'm guessing that's because they feel it might be rude to do so, and/or or they might be wrong, and how embarrassing would that be? Also, if someone has lost a bunch of weight and you're not sure if that was something they did on purpose or if it happened for other reasons, it's generally not something you want to make a big deal of. That's how I feel, anyway.

I've had women friends beam at me and say "Wow, you look GREAT....." and give me a suspicious look like they're waiting for me to announce that I've had plastic surgery, dyed my hair, or ummmm, lost weight! However, I just thank them and smile back. I like to remain mysterious! Guy friends react in pretty much the same way, but tend to be even more cautious. My teenage son says nothing at all (typical of him). My husband comments if I've prodded him, mostly. But to his credit he has made a few unsolicited remarks, too.

I am clearly very lucky. My husband has lost 8lb more than me but it is me that gets the compliments at work and church. It could have been that I was also trying to glam up a bit at the same time. I was also doing the Couch to 5K last Autumn. The difference was quite dramatic at the beginning even after losing only about 7lb. My family noticed at Christmas, which was great.

Nobody noticed for the first 20-30lb, a bit disheartening after all the hard work, but I'm doing it for me & carried on.
I then started to get comments as the weight came off more, but not always good.
The other day at work one of they guys came up to me & said that he thought I was really ill as I'd lost so much weight! I've had this a few times now, but if your doing it for you it doesn't matter. Of course we all like praise for hard work, just be happy with how far you have come
Not all the comments have been bad! But sometimes it gets uncomfortable with nice comments, suppose you can't have it all!
Keep focused on doing what your doing & stuff everyone else! X

I lost 28 pounds before christmas in 3 months. (Didnt record it all) I then put on about 5lbs of christmas weight which i managed to lose in a couple of weeks in jan. This was just by eating within my calorie allowance (most days) but i still pretty much ate what I wanted and allowed myself treats.

I then realise any tone i had previously had gone so i took up the gym, been trying to go at least 3 times a week now for 4 weeks and although have not lost a pound i have lost 1 and half inch off waist and little amounts from other areas. Im pleased with myself but would still like to lose more and continue to tone up.

Its strange that apart from family and partner no one has mentioned my weight loss to me? Its a little disheartening. Anyone else had this??

A lot of guys are cautious to say anything related to weight loss or looks-unless the woman brings up the topic first, i.e. gives a little feedback on the direction wanted. Thus, silence does not mean the weight loss is not noticed.

^^ this is so true.. whenever i ask my boyfriend about my weight or how i look,, his face looks like he is so much in pressure and about to break down but he later responds according to the mood i am in..

I have lost a visibly significant amount of weight. But over the course as I lost more and more, people who would NEVER interact with me would all of a sudden want to talk with me - about my weight. With the most frequent question being "How much have you lost?" Not a compliment that I look good, but just an inquiry as to the number of pounds. The second question would then be "How are you doing it", i.e. wanting to know what kind of surgery I had.

I got tired of fulfilling these people's need to know a number. So, my standard answer has become "2 pounds". I usually get a real confused look and a "Nawwwww, you've lost more than that!" and then I reply "I've only lost 2 pounds. Don't know where they went. The rest of them - I know exactly where I left them - at the gym."

I don't want to feel like a walking lottery billboard with a number tatooed on my forehead. Here on MFP it is different. I am proud of my (as of this writing) 126 and have that on my ticker. And actually, I am down 167 from my all-time high many years ago, but the 126 come from a point where I started in earnest two years ago with only one hiccup.

Moral of the story - if you've walked by me in the hall for the last ten years and never made eye contact with me once, my "number" should not be the first topic you want to converse with me about.

Consider yourself lucky.

People comment on my weight loss all the time in quite invasive ways and it pisses me off. It's none of their business. And the amount of comments I get about "starving myself to lose weight" are highly offensive and make me incredibly angry. I am NOT starving myself. I eat a normal diet, with chocolate, bread, candy, cheese etc. I just happen to exercise more than most, so I burn it off.