Comments people have made about your weight?

My most hated comment is "should you really be eating that?" Like bish I know what i'm eating, now stay in your lane.

I'm very underweight because of gastroparesis and can barely eat. I get comments like eat a cheeseburger (I would love to be able to), I look like a biafran, i'm anorexic, just eat more, you look horrible, you are just attention seeking.

I personally have never had it about my weight, but I have a young lady in my life that is very tall and thin. I have held her in my arms crying after being told by complete strangers that she should eat more burgers. This was said as she was ordering burgers at McDonald's on two separate occasions. I don't understand how people can be so rude to another human being.

I've posted this before but it's worth mentioning again. I had gotten some new glasses and asked if they noticed anything new. They said "I dunno, you don't have a big plate of food in your face?"

I mean...I get that comments like that should motivate but instead it just made me eat more. That's where the extra 100 lbs after the first 100lbs I had gained came from.

A few people have. The worst was from (now ex) friends and family members I really don't talk to anymore. Somehow the act of bettering yourself can bring out the worst in other people.

I got the "You would be such a pretty girl if you just lost some weight" but I didn't really take it negatively. I simply took it to mean that the person who said it thinks I'm pretty, but they're not into the obese look. Not everyone is. That's a fact and I don't feel it's a personal attack directed at me, more like an ignorant attempt at motivating me to lose weight. That's really all I can remember outside of the rare actual mean comment from strangers (mostly teenagers who are peacocking for their friends, makes me smile).

I don't think it's helpful to ruminate, but I may be biased because I have an unusually thick skin for actual insults, let alone foot-in-mouth syndrome. I don't really perceive certain comments like some people may so I'm often not even aware of them. I just think most people aren't really trying to hurt other people for no reason.

It's a sad commentary on our society when people think it is okay to comment on someone else's physical being. It was bad when my mother was alive, because she would continually comment on my weight. Even when I was a teen, and my measurements were 36-24-34 and I wore a size 8, she used to refer to me as "zofty". She was obsessed about weight. My middle sister is obsessed about weight and she is very fit. Sometimes if she and my other sister and I have lunch (she lives in another state), she eat something and then say she feels she feels like a "fat cow". Now my youngest sister and I are overweight, so I wonder how she thinks that makes both of us feel?

I have a lean short build and I get comments like" eat something" or you're " skin and bones" all the time. I honestly believe a majority feel it's OK to make these comments to people who are at the other end of the spectrum. I don't appreciate them at all. Not so much hurt, more pissed off.

Can't believe some of the things I'm reading here...wow. I'm so sorry for everyone who has had their feelings hurt by eejits who I can almost guarantee were far from body perfect themselves....

Before I lost weight I never really had any comments. Now I get them all the time & for the most part, they are lovely, pure & come from an adorable place.

One that "got" me though was a casual work acquaintance who said she was happy that I was "still me & hadn't become stuck up like some who lose a lot of weight". Weird...but okie coke. She then went on to say she couldn't believe how much I was shrinking each time she saw me & added "you were really quite big you know"
Yep...I DO know! I've been at bare minimum overweight since childhood & obese my entire adult life. It just felt very paradoxical to say I'm the "same person" then go on to thinly insult the very same person to their face haha! There was no malice intended, just felt it was a bit thoughtless. Especially as she wasnt for piping up beforehand xD

Weirdest thing I've found though is some folk take your success as their failure? I never talk about my weight unprompted so it's bizarre when someone questions me on how much I've lost/what I eat/what exercise I do before telling me why they can't do the same XYZ.
Firstly, I've been unaware these folk were actively trying to lose weight & secondly, I'd be the last person to judge them even if I was! These conversations are my least favourite cos I feel like by just existing folk feel the need to justify themselves...saddens me

Even the "nice" (using that SO loosely)ones from strangers can be jarring though. A few weeks ago I was crouched down looking for something on the chemists bottom shelf & this random guy just stood there staring at me before saying "Well ...someone squats!" with this horrible smirk on his face. Frankly, the comment made me feel grubby & somehow ashamed?!
Met my husband outside & he could tell from my face something was wrong. These things can really sour your day, not sure what type of person thinks it's okay to say anything to folk they've never clapped eyes on before..

Next month I'm moving away long distance & it will be super weird to have folk take me at face value without knowing my history. Kinda looking forward to not talking about weightloss so often....

Keep smiling & definitely mute out the negative