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    Most Backhanded Compliment Ever Received?

    Posts: 336 Member
    edited September 2024 in Chit-Chat
    I've lost 18 lbs so far. I'm 46 years old. The single most annoying "compliment" I seem to keep getting lately is

    "You've lost weight - it really shows in your face!"

    Yeah, my face has gotten a bit saggier now that it's not puffed up with as much extra fat. But jeez - way to make an ageing lady cringe!! (Esp. when a 25 year old tells you this...)

    What's the most ignorant, silliest, or worst backhanded compliment that YOU have gotten since losing weight? C'mon, let's share the pain and chagrin!

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    • Posts: 269 Member
      "Wow, you're hair is getting long!" This being said shortly after talking about having lost 30lbs. I don't even see this person often... Maybe once or twice a month...
    • Posts: 444 Member
      "Wow, you've lost a lot of weight! That's great, because you were really getting chunky there for a while!"
    • Posts: 444 Member
      I've lost 30 pounds, and everyone keeps saying it shows in my face. Now I know, and YOU know, that my head was not 30 pounds overweight, so pick a new body part to compliment!!!!
    • Posts: 376
      "your shirts are starting to look like ponchos"


      Yea, great you can see I'm losing weight, but unless you want to buy me new clothes since I cant afford them, comment on something else :)
    • Posts: 111
      Not about weight, but my co-worker once said, "With your hair up like that, you look just like a little Amish girl." Um thanks...

      Another co-worker once said about me, "You look at her and you think she's all quiet and plain, but she's actually really devious!"

      I'll own up to devious but quiet and plain? Wow... I guess that's better than loud and strange looking : /
    • Posts: 26
      I've gotten that to. "I can really tell in your face" is what I hear a lot of. I figure my cheek bones haven't been visible for a while, maybe they forgot I had them! LOL, I don't think if it is said to be insulting, I just smile.
    • Posts: 476 Member
      After taking off 30 pounds, at a christmas party I got told "wow, you've lost weight! You look great"..

      Then the person patted my arm, smiled and added "but you've still got a long way to go"

      Nice eh?
    • Posts: 91 Member
      My mother: Oh girl I'm so glad you are losing weight. Cause i didn't want to tell you this but you were begining to waddle.
    • Posts: 3,311 Member
      Your boobs look bigger. yeah...I never know how to respond to that.
    • Posts: 2,173 Member
      I have heard degrading comments..'i would like to get all hot and sweaty with you' and other vairous comments about my body. Not in a pleasant way either in a way that makes you wanna take a shower ech...I am happy to be getting attention but casual convo would help:grumble:
    • Posts: 2,480 Member
      " I can tell you've lost weight because your stomach is a lot less lumpy"

      and

      " yeah, you've definitely lost weight. Your stomach doesn't hang over your pants nearly as much now"

      both by my husband ....thankssssssssss
    • Posts: 857
      When I posted by before and midway pictures, someone told me that I "don't look amazing yet, BUT.."
    • Posts: 483 Member
      " You look nice, how come, what's the occassion"? .. hmmmm,,,,, like I ONLY look nice on certain " occassions". Thanks!!

      Or my mom likes to say " You're being nice, what's wrong with you today"? I'm ALWAYS NICE DAMMIT! LOL

      ugg.... I think you started to something here with this thread! LOL
    • Posts: 2,275 Member
      My grandma: "you look so pretty NOW" gee thanks.....:grumble:
    • Posts: 45
      When I lose weight, it ALWAYS shows in my face first....and in the past, I was usually wearing the same clothes I had before the weight loss (didn't want to spend money on clothes and then buy more new clothes later) So, I always took it as a compliment. Heck, I'll take a compliment, even a back handed one....LOL
    • Posts: 201 Member
      After taking off 30 pounds, at a christmas party I got told "wow, you've lost weight! You look great"..

      The the person patted my arm, smiled and added "but you've still got a long way to go"

      Nice eh?

      That person had some nerve!
    • Posts: 3,966 Member
      Not weight-related, but the one that always stands out is: "I never knew you were smart!?"
    • Posts: 311 Member
      "You've lost so much weight! You can ALMOST go to regular clothing store with me."
    • Posts: 292 Member
      " You look sooo nice now, You were some kind of a size!
      Gee thanks :brokenheart:
    • Posts: 40
      Not weight-related, but the one that always stands out is: "I never knew you were smart!?"
      Always stands out?? More than one person has said that?? Sheesh...

      Oh, and when I was at my heaviest it was the ever popular 'You have a really pretty face'. In the silence that followed I could always hear the echo, 'but you have a HUGE *kitten*.'. Brilliant...
    • Posts: 407 Member
      One of my aunts told me " you lost a lot of weight except in your a** & boobs....they're still huge":noway:
    • Posts: 951 Member
      A guy once told me...."Oh you look like you've lost so much weight in your face but behind you not so much" whilst glancing at my *kitten*...... I simply said thank you and waddled away :huh:
    • Posts: 2,275 Member
      oh yeah.... and I can't forget the ever popular (I've been told this multiple times).... "You've lost a lot of weight. Your boobs are tiny."

      Thanks a**hole, I bet I still look better than you naked. :laugh:
    • Posts: 3,966 Member
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      Always stands out?? More than one person has said that?? Sheesh...

      Yup. It's been a constant in my life. Apparently wearing a beanie, a hooded sweater, and some baggy jeans is the equivalent of uneducated scum.
    • Posts: 2,275 Member
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      Yup. It's been a constant in my life. Apparently wearing a beanie, a hooded sweater, and some baggy jeans is the equivalent of uneducated scum.

      I think it's hot! :blushing:
    • Posts: 1,060 Member
      My old roommate when I had lost weight "You give me the confidence to wear tighter clothes, because we are so close in size"

      Except she had 60lbs on me and was 46EE :grumble:
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    • Posts: 205 Member
      "I like bigger girls." Said to me by drunk customer one night at work. He was trying to hit on me, but failed miserably. I had put on a considerable amount of weight from bartending. :/
    • Posts: 926 Member
      Nothing steals your weight loss thunder quite like "Oh, you look BETTER. Have you lost weight?"
    • Posts: 142 Member
      This isn't a compliment but my Grandma told me once, after I had my daughter, "oh, i see you're not tryig to loose all that extra weight". I was like WHAAA!?!?
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