Dumbest thing you've been told/asked about weight loss

Tldavis3s
Tldavis3s Posts: 83 Member
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I started mfp in 2012 and lost 50 lbs. I got pregnant and now have 25 to lose again. But the point of this is to know, what stupid things do people say to YOU about dieting...I'll go first. :)

1.) You can only lose 10 % of your body weight before your body goes into starvation mode and you won't be able to lose anymore.
2.) What pill did you take to lose weight?
3.) You better watch out, you're a girl and you don't want to get bulky lifting too heavy.
4.) I think you looked better before you lost weight.
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  • Samantha9631
    Samantha9631 Posts: 6
    Measuring your food on a scale will make you anorexic.
    LOL that one makes me laugh so hard.
  • Nurse_Christy
    Nurse_Christy Posts: 276 Member
    "I don't understand how you can be anorexic and still be so fat "
    From my grandmother. When I was 12.
  • no_russian
    no_russian Posts: 893 Member
    "What's your secret"?
  • whateverfloats
    whateverfloats Posts: 22
    I'm relieved you eat. I thought skinny girls didn't eat.
  • BramageOMG
    BramageOMG Posts: 319 Member
    "Are you sick or something?"... :D
  • jamilynn_8890
    jamilynn_8890 Posts: 48 Member
    Nothing said to me because I haven't lost enough weight for it to be noticed, but my father lost about 50 lbs after being diagnosed with diabetes, and several family members told him he looked ill and should gain weight.
  • Elif84
    Elif84 Posts: 287 Member
    People thought I just completely stopped eating or just drank coffee to lose weight. Someone intentionally tried to offend me by asking if I had weight loss surgery (I didn't, but what if I did? who cares).
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Being told I need to eat a certain way, such as no white foods (rice, potatoes, bread, etc.), and my ILs not offering me a dessert when I eat with them. If I didn't have desserts (or sweets in general), I'd have killed someone already. As for the food racists, my paternal ancestors risked their lives to cross an ocean in order to find viable potatoes. I will never let them down.
  • KristyMayhem331
    KristyMayhem331 Posts: 189 Member
    I just find it funny when people ask me what program I am on or what my secret is and then when i tell them I just watch portions, make healthier choices, dont cut anything out of my diet, and exercise they get this disappointed and shocked look on their face as if they were hoping for some magically secret. Its just hard work and commitment to lead a healtier lifestyle (it is NOT a diet).

    Also, when people ask how I can live on eating such little amounts of food. Funny thing is I dont eat little amount of food. They may think so cause they are only seeing one meal but I just eat more often throughout the day and watch portions. I also eat more filling foods so i dont need to eat as much as i used to eat. Like I said above, i havent cut anything out of my diet.

    And as some said above, comments about measuring foods. Like I am overally obsessed because I weigh all solids and measure all liquids as well as plan my days the night before. NO, I am not obsessed, I am dedicated and I am not in a hurry. I take the time for what is important to me and know what I am eating.
  • toadg53
    toadg53 Posts: 302 Member
    Somebody asked me just last Friday night if I had cancer or something. Then he said, I didn't look bad or anything. Just that I'd lost so much weight. Evidently that's the only reason people lose weight, I guess.
  • Go_Mizzou99
    Go_Mizzou99 Posts: 2,628 Member
    Nothing said to me because I haven't lost enough weight for it to be noticed, but my father lost about 50 lbs after being diagnosed with diabetes, and several family members told him he looked ill and should gain weight.


    +1

    I have had the same experience, but usually the people telling me that have quite a bit to lose themselves.
  • Zerodette
    Zerodette Posts: 200 Member
    "Look at her weighing her food, she's obsessed! She totally has an eating disorder."

    That was me about my college roommate, who went from morbidly obese back then, to fit and heathy now. Meanwhile I got up to almost 350lbs. If only I hadn't been so dumb back then...
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Mostly everyone my age (37) or older just asks me if I went gluten free and stopped eating carbs or at least went mostly Paleo blah blah blah it drives me freaking crazy since none of that has been a part of my lifestyle nor do I plan for it to be. I'm not knocking the low carbers and G/F people but NO that's not the one & only way to lose weight...at least not for me...

    I've lost 134 lb in the past 5 years and a lot of people who knew me before the loss say "You looked fine/normal/pretty average before". Uh. Sure. I'm 5'8" and wear a size 10/12, I feel that I just now look relatively average. Maybe it's where I live as well as being a bit older, but I think it's amazing when a size 22 is seen as pretty average (and I really think sometimes it IS).

    ETA: I'm not knocking larger sized bodies, just saying at 300 lb my morbid obesity wasn't "normal".
  • Ldbg289
    Ldbg289 Posts: 236 Member
    Well, I've had some people asking for my secret to weight loss. They get all disappointed when I tell them there is no secret. Just dedication. Yes I sometimes slip but I always get back up. Then another person, a family member, saw me weighing some food one day and told me I was too obsessed and he liked me better before(something to that effect).
  • AllTheNoms
    AllTheNoms Posts: 135 Member
    I was told I was fat when I weighed 145 lbs at age 18 (5'6") - have been yo yo-ing for the fourteen years since. Tough lesson learned about knowing when to listen to people versus ignore them.
  • N2Couture
    N2Couture Posts: 2,762 Member
    I guess to some it's not a dumb question but it gets overkill
    to hear from anyone the same thing .. 'How did you do it'?
    Like they are hoping I'll say a gastric or sleeve, pills or whatever
    the latest rage may be. Once I explain just logging and moving,
    they seem disinterested any longer. Some people. lol
  • kittimiss
    kittimiss Posts: 31 Member

    4.) I think you looked better before you lost weight.

    Yes, this!!! The same ladies (many of them heavier than me!!) that used to say "You'd be so pretty if you lost weight" kindly told me that I looked much better before I lost any weight. I just look sickly now. SMH, and in my mind I'm like "WTF? Seriously....my body fat % says that I'm actually obese".
    :grumble:
  • shai74
    shai74 Posts: 512 Member
    "low fat is good for you"
    "eat plenty of cereals and grains"
    "sodium gives you heart disease"
    "eating too much fat will make you fat and clog your arteries"
    "grain and fruit is good for diabetics"

    Lol ... just lol.

    I'll take my protein any day of the week. I haven't craved sweets or junkfood in months, unlike most of the people I see on here complaining about how they do great during the day, but fall off the wagon in the evening, or start over every week. That used to be me, and I'm never doing it again.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    My mom (who is actually very awesome & supportive) says some really nutty things sometimes about dieting and nutrition. She'll ask my husband and I over dinner what the main foods are we eat that "cause" our weight loss and she thinks that some foods are magical like grapefruit, cottage cheese, boiled eggs. In the same vein, she will offer me a cupcake (I'm a sweets fiend) but if I turn it down she says "I understand, I know it's fattening". As though that cupcake would have added 6 lb to me automatically. I really think she believes that certain foods have incredibly strong good and bad POWERS...it's nuts.
  • ChrisHoffman72
    ChrisHoffman72 Posts: 708 Member
    Usually 'you look sick" or "you should gain some weight back". Also get asked what "program" I am doing
  • MKEgal
    MKEgal Posts: 3,250 Member
    I think the stupidist thing anyone has said to me was, "the pounds are just melting off, right?"...
    by my weight-loss doctor. I think he was trying to be funny. He got the Glare of Death.
    I wish they'd melt off. I've put a lot of time & sweat into this.
    1.) You can only lose 10 % of your body weight before your body goes into starvation mode and you won't be able to lose anymore.
    :facepalm:
    I've lost just over 20% of my starting weight and am still going, aiming for at least 40%.
    My doctors are quite happy with my health and progress.
    2.) What pill did you take to lose weight?
    a - none of your business
    b - that's rude
    c - phentermine, which controls appetite, and that let me eat sensible portions
    I just find it funny when people ask me what program I am on or what my secret is and then when I tell them I just watch portions, make healthier choices, don't cut anything out of my diet, and exercise they get this disappointed and shocked look
    The few times I've been asked, I tell them "the E.L.M.M. diet".
    And when they look confused, "eat less, move more".
  • Jennloella
    Jennloella Posts: 2,286 Member
    My mom is an annoying know it all. When I bought my spin bike she tole me my legs were going to get huge and I wouldn't be happy with the results. Ugh. Shut. Up.
  • FabulousFantasticFifty
    FabulousFantasticFifty Posts: 195,832 Member
    "If you lose weight you will lose your Boobs!"
  • Leonidas_meets_Spartacus
    Leonidas_meets_Spartacus Posts: 6,198 Member
    Some one told me to stop eating bacon, butter and heavy cream to lose weight.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,740 Member
    Some one told me to stop eating bacon, butter and heavy cream to lose weight.

    I guess in a weird twisted way that's kind of accurate because people who eat a lot of calories including those things at every/most meals would lose weight if they laid off of them by cutting calories. But yeah...no thanks!!

    Honestly counting calories and being able to glance at nutritional info on this website has opened my eyes to so much I didn't know before. I used to think that a breakfast of 2 eggs, bacon, and a slice of toast was like "sinfully bad" compared to a big bowl of Special K with 2% milk which I thought was "diet". I'm glad I learned!
  • JtKeil
    JtKeil Posts: 1,389 Member
    I've been asked if I'm sick a lot...it's hard not to take offense, but I think the people saying it don't mean it to sound bad. But oh well :indifferent:
  • Leonidas_meets_Spartacus
    Leonidas_meets_Spartacus Posts: 6,198 Member
    Some one told me to stop eating bacon, butter and heavy cream to lose weight.

    I guess in a weird twisted way that's kind of accurate because people who eat a lot of calories including those things at every/most meals would lose weight if they laid off of them by cutting calories. But yeah...no thanks!!

    Honestly counting calories and being able to glance at nutritional info on this website has opened my eyes to so much I didn't know before. I used to think that a breakfast of 2 eggs, bacon, and a slice of toast was like "sinfully bad" compared to a big bowl of Special K with 2% milk which I thought was "diet". I'm glad I learned!

    I am not a big calorie counter. I just eat till I am full. pretty easy than crunching numbers.
  • KristyMayhem331
    KristyMayhem331 Posts: 189 Member
    Some one told me to stop eating bacon, butter and heavy cream to lose weight.

    Don't mess with my bacon!
  • breesie11
    breesie11 Posts: 3,478 Member
    Here, drink this stuff. It'll do the work for you :ohwell:
  • Strange_magic
    Strange_magic Posts: 370 Member
    My fiance once told me he knew I was super fit because I had a thigh gap.


    "babe, a woman is at her PEAK of fitness when she has a thigh gap"

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