I prefer not get weight loss comments

If you're talking about in real life, I agree, it is extremely rude for people to comment on another person's weight.

Saying, "Hey, you look great. You look like you've lost weight!" is very insulting. It implies that the person didn't look as good at a higher weight.

I often have people say this to me, even though I have not lost any weight.
Essentially, they are making the faux pas that I do not look good at the weight that I am.

I am very tired of weight stigma.
It is harmful, and it causes much pain, and even eating disorders.
No one should EVER comment on another person's weight, unless asked. And then one should be very careful to not imply that being a lesser weight is any more attractive or healthy (it most certainly is NOT necessarily healthier, it can be even LESS healthy to be of a lower weight) than to be at a higher weight.

Even when someone has lost weight, it could be due to cancer, depression, an eating disorder, bulimia, compulsive exercise, self-hate, drug use for the purpose of weight loss, smoking for weight loss, etc., etc. It should never be presumed that weight loss is healthy, or that higher weight is less healthy. Plenty of people of higher weight have healthier lifestyles, and are healthier as a result, than people who are of lower weight.

All of us know of slim couch potatoes who chain smoke and eat ramen or fast food daily. And many of us know people of greater size who work out regularly, and who eat nutritiously most or all of the time.

Healthy lifestyle is PROVEN to be a greater predictor of health than weight.

Next time I change my hair and someone says "Wow that looks great. Did you dye your hair?" should I cry and assume they meant that I didn't look good at my previous hair color?

You are losing weight for a reason and even if your health is the main one, looks definitely play a part. Don't be so sensitive and learn to take compliments at face value. Sometimes people are really just trying to be nice.

dieting is considered disordered eating by many health professionals in the eating disorder community

visit the National Eating Disorder Association web site, and the ANAD eating disorder web site. They include discussion of how common it is for eating disorders to be set off by just one comment

People with eating disorders frequently recall one thing someone said to them that stuck with them, that set off their eating disorder

I don't think we should be held to the standard of relating to everyone as though they could be sick

So because there are people with mental disorders who might be sent off the deep end into harming themselves, everybody should refrain from recognizing hard work & giving compliments on it? :huh:

Also, I've noticed when someone says, "You look great; did you lose weight?" they often follow the question with, "I need to get in shape. How did you do it?" It's rarely meant as an insult, in my experience, and I had truckloads of "you'd be so pretty if you lost the weight" comments 60+lbs ago.
Also, some people aren't so good at communication. So, I cut them some slack.

Oh, for pete's sake! This reminds me of my favorite quote: "We live in the land of the perpetually offended".

Take the compliment in the spirit it was intended and move on with your life. There are way bigger things out there to worry about than someone who thinks you look great because you put in the hard work to make yourself healthy.

No one should EVER comment on another person's weight, unless asked. And then one should be very careful to not imply that being a lesser weight is any more attractive or healthy (it most certainly is NOT necessarily healthier, it can be even LESS healthy to be of a lower weight) than to be at a higher weight.