Most amusing response to "you've lost weight"?

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  • Ichasestorms
    Ichasestorms Posts: 24 Member
    I would act surprised and say something like

    "Huh, wow... that would explain why my pants are falling off me!"

    "I guess thats what happens when you have lots of sex!" :laugh:
  • The_Enginerd
    The_Enginerd Posts: 3,982 Member
    No, I think you just got fatter.
  • CampbellTony
    CampbellTony Posts: 38 Member
    Youve lost weight!!!

    Yeah, its a revolutionary diet system. I can eat anything I like and as much as I like, but I have to liquidize it and eat it from a colander using chopsticks. I'm not allowed to eat anything that runs through............
  • lolalament
    lolalament Posts: 73 Member
    My sister had a back operation, and has a huge scar running from her shoulders to her waist (down her spine).

    If people commented, she used to tell them she had a "back job" - she used to be twice the size she is now, but they cut her in half and removed her fat, then sewed her back together.
  • EvyMetal
    EvyMetal Posts: 19
    Please do not use cancer or other illness jokes. It is not a joke when the other person has a patient in the family, or has lost someone to such an illness, it is somewhere between insensitive and cruel. My niece is currently battling leukemia, and you can see her ribcage, where she used to be overweight a year ago. I cannot even begin to describe how her parents or friends would feel if they heard you joke about cancer as a weight loss method.

    I'm with you on this. Just found out a good friend at work is terminal and I had actually commented on her weight loss several months ago - feel like a total jerk now. I have lost 80 lbs. and mainly it is women at work who make comments - the guys not so much.
  • hmaddpear
    hmaddpear Posts: 610 Member
    I say yes, I have. It's deliberate, and if the questioner asks what my secret is, I tell them it's this amazing new fad diet - it's called "eat less and exercise more".

    They never want to know any more after that...
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
    Well, if I could edit my post I would!! But I can't!! So, I sincerity apologize if I uses the cancer word!! I did not meen too offend anybody with my post!! I'm sorry!!

    Dan

    You can make light of any situation.

    Some people choose (yes, make a CHOICE) to be offended over small things.

    my uncle died of colon cancer last year

    friend of mine is going through hell with his 17 month old daughter who has leukemia.

    some things you just shouldn't joke about, just for karmas sake.
  • tapirfrog
    tapirfrog Posts: 616 Member
    Well, if I could edit my post I would!! But I can't!! So, I sincerity apologize if I uses the cancer word!! I did not meen too offend anybody with my post!! I'm sorry!!

    Dan

    You can make light of any situation.

    Some people choose (yes, make a CHOICE) to be offended over small things.

    I would like to make a choice not to feel that instant gut-punch when someone jokes about cancer and I'm yanked back to the hospital waiting room. But I can't. I really wish I could.
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    I've always wanted to say no when someone asks if I've lost weight or did anyone ever tell me?
  • dunnodunno
    dunnodunno Posts: 2,290 Member
    My sister had a back operation, and has a huge scar running from her shoulders to her waist (down her spine).

    If people commented, she used to tell them she had a "back job" - she used to be twice the size she is now, but they cut her in half and removed her fat, then sewed her back together.

    That's a hilarious comeback.
  • Losingthedamnweight
    Losingthedamnweight Posts: 535 Member
    Well, if I could edit my post I would!! But I can't!! So, I sincerity apologize if I uses the cancer word!! I did not meen too offend anybody with my post!! I'm sorry!!

    Dan

    You can make light of any situation.

    Some people choose (yes, make a CHOICE) to be offended over small things.

    my uncle died of colon cancer last year

    friend of mine is going through hell with his 17 month old daughter who has leukemia.

    some things you just shouldn't joke about, just for karmas sake.

    I'm sorry about your uncle and his daughter. How do such good people get such bad luck? I'll never understand it. The world has a strange way of treating us.

    The cancer joke was just an example to get things going and not meant to be a main topic of discussion here. I believe if we eliminated joking from everything that might offend somebody, we would lose the ability to laugh. I heard the "joke" initially from someone that had cancer and wanted to make light of a bad situation. Different people have different ways of reacting to the world. Some people have cancer and it's a depressing subject that just destroys them. Others might joke about it to relieve tension because they feel they only have so much time left and they went to spend it laughing.

    I personally hate it when people joke about prison rape regarding males. Rape is bad. We all agree. But when it's a man in jail for any reason at all, we make light of it and joke? Like "screw him. He deserves it. Haha have fun with butch in that small jail cell". How could you wish that on ANYBODY? To think that someone deserves to be victimized and you're endorsing it? And joking about it isn't even controversial. People do it on tv all that time like they're talking about some kind of ghetto justice. Blows my mind.
  • Scampimom
    Scampimom Posts: 19 Member
    Youve lost weight!!!

    Yeah, its a revolutionary diet system. I can eat anything I like and as much as I like, but I have to liquidize it and eat it from a colander using chopsticks. I'm not allowed to eat anything that runs through............

    Hahahaha, I'm gonna try that diet. Or there's the toddler diet - you give a toddler a bowl of food, and you can only eat what you can catch in your mouth before it hits the floor/walls/ceiling
  • Scampimom
    Scampimom Posts: 19 Member
    Or if you're a man you could always look sly and sassy and whisper that it's actually extensive corsetry. And it makes you feel so....alive!
  • kelleybean1
    kelleybean1 Posts: 312 Member
    Just tell them it's Spanx-especially if you're a guy.
  • Swiftdogs
    Swiftdogs Posts: 328 Member
    Just be happy they notice! I'm still waiting ... :ohwell:
  • Losingthedamnweight
    Losingthedamnweight Posts: 535 Member
    Just be happy they notice! I'm still waiting ... :ohwell:

    Ohhhh swift! Have you lost weight?
  • Swiftdogs
    Swiftdogs Posts: 328 Member
    Just be happy they notice! I'm still waiting ... :ohwell:

    Ohhhh swift! Have you lost weight?

    Yes, I've been working on it. Thank you for noticing! :wink:
  • Trundlegate
    Trundlegate Posts: 52 Member
    Yes, I left it in the fridge
    :wink:

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