"OMG how did you loose the weight?"

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  • samanthachen
    samanthachen Posts: 360 Member
    For those people, I tell them I've been snorting lines of Sensa.

    They shut up.

    Win. I am totally using this one.

    My thoughts, EXACTLY! I am not there, yet, but I am building up an arsenal. hahah
  • samanthachen
    samanthachen Posts: 360 Member
    I have lost 38lbs so far and no one has noticed :o(

    I bet they have noticed and are too nervous or jealous to comment! I AM SURE YOU ARE ROCKING IT!!!! Congrats on the loss :D
  • MyChocolateDiet
    MyChocolateDiet Posts: 22,281 Member
    ^Oh is this the HOT DOG sprinkles powder? Me too, I wanna say this. Combined with the other threads "If i wanted to look like you, I'd workout like you" for people who have workout comments.
  • samcat2000
    samcat2000 Posts: 106 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.

    I told 3 co-workers about MFP. Two of them are using it...not as diligently as they should be but they are exercising a lot and losing weight. The other co-worker who has a lapband (that's no longer really acting as a lapband), initially lost about 80 lbs with the lapband, gained it all back, has cholesterol out the roof, and a BMI of 46 said "oh what's the name of it again? and what's it about? i'm going to look it up!" Then she looked it up right then and there and shook her head "oh I see. It will probably tell me I can only eat 300 calories/day." She clicked out of it, and well that was the end of that.
  • wldrose75
    wldrose75 Posts: 128
    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.

    Wow! You've lost 56lbs?! You have such willpower. I couldn't do that. That's why I just swallowed a couple of baby tapeworms... (This'll really get you the "you've lost your frickin' mind" stare. :wink: )
  • Lauren2H
    Lauren2H Posts: 33 Member
    This is a great thread for those of us on here just starting out. A good reminder to stick with MFP and skip the tapeworm phase altogether! ;)
  • terijoestoes
    terijoestoes Posts: 205 Member
    *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"

    This is my pet peeved. You don't loose weight you lose weight
  • Miss_Aurora
    Miss_Aurora Posts: 93
    I don't tell people I'm "dieting" .. it's funny because I don't no one seems to dare ask if I've lost weight.

    Only a few close friends know ... and I did have one lady at the pool say "your swimmers are getting a bit loose" ... I just said "Don't you hate how the chlorine eats your togs?"

    Another person I catch up with from time to time asked if I lost weight .. and I just lied and told her I'd put it on .. and was glad that she hadn't asked if I'd got fatter LOL

    I'm curious to how long it will take work people to say something.
  • kimholcomb
    kimholcomb Posts: 16 Member
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  • coralietg
    coralietg Posts: 12 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.....

    It makes me sad when people say things like that. Everyone started someone. I'm still considered obese, I have 4lbs left to lose until I am "overweight". I ran 4.2 miles this afternoon. I started by running 30 seconds. People want results and change over night.
  • marsviolet
    marsviolet Posts: 79 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.

    All of this! I've had people get mad at me too, it's SO weird. Still don't really know how to react to it.

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