It just drives me crazy!

Well you are looking a little frail, honey. {{snicker}} :flowerforyou: You look stunning in your pics, they're just jealous!


I had someone ask me if I had a disease. Niiiiice.

I THINK I understand what the problem with them is, Well OTHER then the jealousy thing of course.
In America, there is a constant stream of “STARS” that are eating badly, And ONCE in a while they add those that are eating healthy TO that list and even though they look great they are still accused of not eating right. Because face it this is the fattest nation in the WORLD! The media puts people that are in shape under a microscoop of good bad and ugly, and America eats this information (wrong as it is) up.
NOT to MENTION, that when people that do not have the fortitude to even TRY to do what we are doing, they think that if you are not eating the way that they do that you are not eating right.
This is something normal.
TRY to look at it this way.
They are trying to justify themselves, and unfortunately they are doing that by tearing down someone else, In this case they are tearing down us. Just try to remember how GREAT you look and how much better you are going to look and how healthy you are. :bigsmile:
When THEIR arteries are SCREAMING “HEEEEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!” :huh:
--Diann...

You are doing a great job! I think most people have no clue what to say...they just blurt it out.

When my husband had cancer I learned something...You ready for this? You sure? Here it goes.

People's mouths are stupid.

There you have it....it's the cure all. It doesn't mean people are stupid, but they have no clue what to say, they know what they want to say something, but it comes out in dumb mush. They mean well, but have no clue what to say.

We had people say all sorts of things that were dumb. One of my favorites is when someone told my DH during his treatments, "Well, at least you get a new haircut now!" WTF? :huh: Ya, get a a new haircut? IDIOT!

So Just figure that people's mouths are stupid. They want to compliment, but don't know how. Keep up the great work and say, "THANK YOU!" often. :noway:

Well, I am eating most of my meals with my in-laws- MIL says- " I don't know what you can eat so I'll fix something for everyone and you get what you want", " I don't know why you have to eat all that special food" "It seems like a lot of trouble to me" "Yeah you could probably loose some weight (I am at least 40 more pounds to go) "well I think that you should cook what the kids want to eat" :grumble:

I am a diabetic and I have found a good way to control my food intake- I buy the right food that I like to eat!! I am also a flexitarian (no beef or pork) so I eat a lot of chicken- my kids want to eat burgers, fries, hamburger helper, pizza, mac-n-cheese- I can't eat that stuff! :noway: So our deal at home is, try what I made- if you don't like it, make something else. This works for us! Of course, MIL sees my husband and boys "wasting" away (the oldest son needs to loose some weight, and the hubby could too!

My daughter looks at me and we grin- The men folk have been on their own since last Sunday (6th)- so far they have had pizza, tacos, hamburgers and spaghetti- all with the meat that I cannot eat- That is fine with me since they are doing the work- I have told the kids (ages 17, 15, 13 ) that anytime they want something like tacos, hamburgers, spaghetti with meat sauce- they can cook it- they all have their scout cooking badges.

Okay- that is my rant for today- I have made a chicken casserole my way and an apple crisp/something or other (oatmeal, apples, applesauce, sugarless coconut, eggs, flour, cinnamon, vanilla and splenda) that smell great- I'll share :bigsmile:

I honestly think that people just don't know what to say. I think they tell you what they "think" you want to hear. I mean, think about it. If someone came up to me and said "Wow you look great! How much weight have you lost now? You're looking so skinny!" my immediate thought would be sheer joy! I'd probably do a happy dance right then and there. But there are some people who would think/say "Well how bad did I look before?!" My thought is this: You can't live your life for other people, you can only live for you. If you feel healthy and look healthy and are happy doing what you're doing, then keep on keepin' on! I personally think you look amazing! Keep up the great work!

This may be just me- and I totally agree that people can be stupid and some of the things you guys have written... well I can't believe people actually said that! -but I would totally rather have people not say anything. Nothing rude, nothing nice, just me for me who cares what I look like. I mean, I know people can tell I've lost weight, 30lbs and 3 clothing sizes tend not to go unnoticed, but it embarrasses and flusters me when people say things, even if they're nice things.

I had a situation just like this over the weekend. We had a family BBQ and my mother arrived late so I had already eaten. She gave me her "what's wrong with you" face and said "have you eaten?"...Well-being pretty sick of hearing her say "Please take care of yourself" - I calmly said "Yea I'm pretty sure I ate yesterday"

I've never felt or looked healthier. I, too, believe that it's jealousy. My mother told me "life's too short & I don't care how many calories are in something-if I want it-I'm going to eat it". UGH