Things people say when you lose weight

My favorites:

"You look great!"

"Did you play/do you coach X sport at that college?" (I get this almost every single time I wear something with my alma mater on it and I LOVE it because I was sedentary and pushing 300 lb during college)

"You look athletic now, I can tell you must work out a lot" (funny because I am the walking/hiking type, not a huge exercise fiend honestly)

"I didn't even recognize you, you look younger!"

My least favorites?

"You're disappearing"

"Whoa, skinny mini!" (this coming from a size 2 person is very annoying. coming from someone bigger it's annoying as well - but less so)

"I didn't even recognize you" (concerned/shocked face that doesn't seem like a positive)

"KEEP IT UP!" when I'd gone down MANY sizes was pretty upsetting to me. Years down the road, I have realized that people generally mean well, but it bugged me. For me that sounds like "you're looking better but not acceptable yet!"

I feel like a lot of the "you're going to get too skinny!" comments come from people who aren't really ever going to see you without a shirt.

I dress well, and dressing well as a man with the blazers and what have you really obscures the form a bit, so while I do get that every so often, I get it. You have much more intimate knowledge about your journey than others might. Depressing as that mirror can be sometimes.

I do get "something is different about you" sometimes, and I do find it amusing, because either that's either because I shaved my beard and people just noticed, or the weight. Same for "I could definitely tell, you can see it on your face."

Best comment: "You look great!" I say thanks, feel like my hard work is showing results, and move on with my day.
Weirdest: "You've lost weight. Is that intentional?" Friend has a look of grave concern, then asks if I'm battling cancer. I reassure her that I'm healthy, go out for a run, and wonder whether I look ill to everyone around me.

My husband was hugging me the other day when he drew back, somewhat startled: "Are you getting smaller?"

Honestly pretty much all of the comments I get are positive. I don't like in the US so it may be a cultural difference. Everyone here is pretty much always on a diet in their minds, whether they are in practice or not. My weight loss seems to be pretty noticeable to most people I know, so I've been getting a bunch of "wow, you look great", "looking skinny", or "you've lost a lot of weight". The most positive stuff comes from my wife though, who is always praising my weight loss and how good I look constantly. So it's been a pretty positive journey.

I think the only semi negative stuff I used to get was comments like "you can't eat that, you're on a diet" when I would eat things that were "unhealthy" in their minds but fit in my goals. Now that I've lost the weight though those comments have pretty much stopped because I think they realize what I am doing is working.

(I come from a Hispanic background where it’s considered acceptable and perhaps even desirable to be overweight in some circles)
Them: “But you didn’t look bad when you were fat!”

Me: “Maybe, but I felt like crap!” Not to mention I had various obesity related health issues and was well on my way to more. Sometimes it’s not just about looks!

MikePTY wrote: »

Honestly pretty much all of the comments I get are positive. I don't like in the US so it may be a cultural difference. Everyone here is pretty much always on a diet in their minds, whether they are in practice or not. My weight loss seems to be pretty noticeable to most people I know, so I've been getting a bunch of "wow, you look great", "looking skinny", or "you've lost a lot of weight". The most positive stuff comes from my wife though, who is always praising my weight loss and how good I look constantly. So it's been a pretty positive journey.

I think the only semi negative stuff I used to get was comments like "you can't eat that, you're on a diet" when I would eat things that were "unhealthy" in their minds but fit in my goals. Now that I've lost the weight though those comments have pretty much stopped because I think they realize what I am doing is working.

I do live in the US, but my experience has been the same in regards to people around me being positive/encouraging. No one comments on what I eat, though, which is a plus. XD

'You used to be sooo scarily fat! Never return to that weight.' Sadly, I regained most of the weight and now feel even more miserable knowing what people must be thinking.

Someone asked me if I was sick.

Snoopy_OnALude wrote: »

I live in the American south so i get some pretty funny ones: "s*** boy you gon dry up and blow away" "you're wastin away on us brother" and my favorite: "where's the other half of ya!?"

One of my friends told me a mutual friend saw a profile pic I put on FB recently and asked him where the other half of my face went.

Uhhhhh....thanks?

“Hey, skinny!”

"You must feel so much better!" Well, I was pretty fat and happy and wasn't really feeling poor, but kicking my own *kitten* in the gym and exercising a lot wears me out. I guess I'm feeling better but never felt bad to begin with.

I’ve had “what have you done to your face?” Loudly by a work colleague (ps found cheek bones), “you’ve lost weight, you’ve not got cancer have you” said bluntly and not with concern from a medical colleague, when I replied no he said in a happy tone, so have you been doing CrossFit? Some people!, most have been positive comments, and mostly now I like freaking people out as I’ve changed my hair, lost 103lbs, people who I’ve not seen for a while don’t recognise me until I speak, I forget sometimes and think why are they blanking me lol

"Don't lose too much weight or you'll be cold all the time!"

"Oh, you're still on your diet?"

After asking me about my diet.. "Oh I could never do THAT."

I used to get wow you look great to an ex colleague not recognising me at all and introduced himself to me, quite funny. On the frustrating side another ex work colleague used to comment that I was disappearing and always seemed to lecture me on what I was eating. This same person was very over weight.