Are You Eye Candy Now?

Wookinpanub
Wookinpanub Posts: 635 Member
edited November 20 in Success Stories
So who is getting checked out more now that they have dropped some lbs? Getting hit on? Do you like the new attention?

I seem to have a noticed a few more "looks" but maybe that is just my increase in confidence helping my ego.

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  • discretekim
    discretekim Posts: 314 Member
    I feel like I've become invisible. But I'm putting it on my engagement ring lol. Still I remember I got so much attention at my thinnest. But I'm much happier now.
  • Wookinpanub
    Wookinpanub Posts: 635 Member
    discretekim wrote: »
    I feel like I've become invisible. But I'm putting it on my engagement ring lol.

    I didn't wear my wedding ring at my heaviest (didn't fit) and I never got any looks not wearing it I am sure. I wear it a bit more but not a whole lot of looks. But who really checks out men in their mid-40s?
  • 4mricandy
    4mricandy Posts: 159 Member
    Not sure! A triple pack twinkie or a piece of celery? Which one you lookin' at??
  • vixtris
    vixtris Posts: 688 Member
    asflatasapancake wrote: »
    Mainly I think I get looks because I am so pasty white or I have a big booger hanging off my nose. But I'll pretend that it's because I'm in better shape. That sounds better.

    Hahahahaha
  • crazyjerseygirl
    crazyjerseygirl Posts: 1,252 Member
    People seem friendlier, buuut, I'm also in a much better mood now!
  • shadow2soul
    shadow2soul Posts: 7,692 Member
    edited June 2015
    I'm pretty sure the only reason people look at me is because I do stuff like dance and mouth the words to the songs I'm listening to in between sets at the gym (I also do stuff like that when I take walks around town). I also get strange looks when I decide to walk to the store for stuff.
  • Elise4270
    Elise4270 Posts: 8,375 Member
    Ya, I think guys at work are creepin on me. Come quitting time when I schuck my Nomex they are peering around the corner snickering.

    But, if I'm clothes shopping, I feel like a whale.
  • cuckoo_jenibeth
    cuckoo_jenibeth Posts: 1,434 Member
    crazyjerseygirl wrote: »
    People seem friendlier, buuut, I'm also in a much better mood now!

    I had this discussion with my husband recently. He thinks that I am imaging things, but I am treated so much better! It is nonsensical and wrong, but people are kinder, more polite by far, and random strangers smile and approach me! I dont know that I would classify it as flirtatious, but it is a world of difference! I am in my 40's now, so kind of out of the flirty stages....
    It is sad to know that, even though I am the exact same person, so many people never bothered to get to know "fat me"...
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    Here and there. Not a ton, but I don't have that vibe methinks.
  • colls0325
    colls0325 Posts: 15 Member
    jenibethbu wrote: »
    crazyjerseygirl wrote: »
    People seem friendlier, buuut, I'm also in a much better mood now!

    I had this discussion with my husband recently. He thinks that I am imaging things, but I am treated so much better! It is nonsensical and wrong, but people are kinder, more polite by far, and random strangers smile and approach me! I dont know that I would classify it as flirtatious, but it is a world of difference! I am in my 40's now, so kind of out of the flirty stages....
    It is sad to know that, even though I am the exact same person, so many people never bothered to get to know "fat me"...

    I totally agree!!
  • dawniemate
    dawniemate Posts: 395 Member
    Funny really men notice you but now my female colleagues are very 'off' with me now I've lost the weight. ...
  • jer1993
    jer1993 Posts: 254 Member
    It's mad how different you're treated after losing 167 pounds!! People open doors for you instead of slamming them in your face! And walking down the street and only having good attention instead of people sniggering at you is the best feeling in the world!! Xx
  • Emmatyan
    Emmatyan Posts: 87 Member
    I didn't notice more attention than usual, but then I suddenly start getting messages from my ex's and other guys who knew me "before", telling me what great shape I am in now. It's probably due to numerous gym pics I post on instagram :D
  • sbantonio
    sbantonio Posts: 161 Member
    Eye candy? Not sure. Before and after shots. The second is a little easier to look at than the first... Lol

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  • KANGOOJUMPS
    KANGOOJUMPS Posts: 6,474 Member
    hell yeah
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    ^ trust you kangoo but yeah you do look great sbantonio
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,149 Member
    Eye candy? Me?
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  • unrelentingminx
    unrelentingminx Posts: 231 Member
    People at work have commented on my weight loss but since I'm still wearing the same size clothes (but baggier) I'm far from eye candy. I've always been hourglass curvy but my waist is tiny now and have been checked a couple of times when I'm wearing my closer fitting gym clothes.
  • wildflowerherbal
    wildflowerherbal Posts: 28 Member
    Totally. Even my ex husband who demanded I lose weight (right before I dumped his *kitten*) is now checking me out. Haha
  • NotAResolution
    NotAResolution Posts: 58 Member
    I am training for a big race. I bike, swim and ride 6 days a week. I shave my legs once a week as well. Ladies, you know that reaction men give you when you catch them checking out your breasts? I caught a lady checking out my legs. I know she was checking them out cause she gave me that same reaction that men give ladies. It was funny. I work my *kitten* off to make those legs strong and efficient, it doesn't bother me one bit if folks check them out.
  • Wookinpanub
    Wookinpanub Posts: 635 Member
    unrelentingminx wrote: »
    People at work have commented on my weight loss but since I'm still wearing the same size clothes (but baggier) I'm far from eye candy. I've always been hourglass curvy but my waist is tiny now and have been checked a couple of times when I'm wearing my closer fitting gym clothes.

    I didn't get comments about weight loss until I bought new clothes. Sad but when I wear one of my old bigger shirts I still look somewhat "huge" and not in shape but when I wear a more fitting shirt, I look so much better int he mirror imo but maybe it's a self-confidence thing. I bought two new fitted suits for work and when I wear them is when I get the most comments about weight loss and just two weeks ago while in a suit I got my first - "have you been working out comment".
  • kshadows
    kshadows Posts: 1,315 Member
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    Yeah....I'd say so. I'm conceited, what can I say. :P
  • Wookinpanub
    Wookinpanub Posts: 635 Member
    Chaelaz wrote: »
    Here and there. Not a ton, but I don't have that vibe methinks.

    Maybe I just don't have the confidence yet but I don't have that vibe either as I think I have a "plain" look to me. Do middle aged accountants like me really give off a sexual vibe?

    But I have noticed a look here and there and ladies being a little more friendly in random conversations around town, work, etc but maybe I just have a little more confidence than in the past. I still battle social anxiety so not one to strike up conversation with strangers.
  • MsHulkMN
    MsHulkMN Posts: 81 Member
    i'd say not me...
  • melimomTARDIS
    melimomTARDIS Posts: 1,941 Member
    I think I get hit on as much as I was when I was fat, but I have noticed that overall, people treat me better. I have gotten job offers (out of no-where) better customer service etc....
  • bennettinfinity
    bennettinfinity Posts: 865 Member
    Wookinpanub wrote: »
    So who is getting checked out more now that they have dropped some lbs? Getting hit on? Do you like the new attention?

    I seem to have a noticed a few more "looks" but maybe that is just my increase in confidence helping my ego.

    I'd say the same thing... I notice more looks, but I think it's because now that I'm more confident, I'm not looking at the floor all the time. So it's very difficult to say a) that I'm getting checked out at all or b) that if I am, that it's more... It *seems* like more - so I'll take that and feel good about it. :)
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    I've never gotten hit on in my life (other than by my husband), thin or fat or thin again so nothing has changed there.

    In general, I feel like I have friendlier interactions when I am out and about but a big part of that is probably because I am more apt to smile and be friendly myself now. Now that I am thinking about it, I am probably more apt to say "hi" or smile at people who are out of shape or a bit overweight and maybe middle aged or older. Hopefully that doesn't mean that they all think I am flirting with them.
  • gothchiq
    gothchiq Posts: 4,590 Member
    yes... but honestly the dudes did hit on me when I was thick, too. I get compliments from women now also, usually on my tattoos or how my clothes look. :D Which, my tattoos are currently being shown completely because finally I can wear a bikini to the pool! On the other hand, sometimes women in the gym give me the stinkeye. No need, I am married. Not gonna take anyone's man (or woman.) On the other hand I know I look my age more because the skin where my jaw and neck meet is a bit loose, in the way it only does at middle age and up.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    gothchiq wrote: »
    yes... but honestly the dudes did hit on me when I was thick, too. I get compliments from women now also, usually on my tattoos or how my clothes look. :D Which, my tattoos are currently being shown completely because finally I can wear a bikini to the pool! On the other hand, sometimes women in the gym give me the stinkeye. No need, I am married. Not gonna take anyone's man (or woman.) On the other hand I know I look my age more because the skin where my jaw and neck meet is a bit loose, in the way it only does at middle age and up.

    I was looking at my profile in the mirror the other day and noticed the same thing with my jaw/neck. I was wondering if maybe that skin would tighten up a bit or if it was just a sign of middle age.
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