Things people say when you lose weight
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NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »hallobailey wrote: »Weight loss is a very personal journey but it inevitably draws comments from the people around us. I’m curious, what kind of comments have you received related to your weight loss? Good, bad, frustrating. Here are a couple for me...
Good: “You are looking fit”
Frustrating: “you don’t have any weight to lose” or “don’t get obsessed with your new diet”
This is the 2ND time this week someone asked me if my SUPER YOUNG looking, really beautiful 20 something year old daughter was MY SISTER!!!!! I'm an older woman, btw...uhhhhh BOOM!
I love this ^ - really cool!
When I was 28-29, I worked with a younger girl (21 or 22) in a retail store and customers often thought she was my daughter. Sometimes sister, too...but daughter!?!? Honestly it didn't upset me too much because I thought she was pretty and we looked a lot alike (face/coloring), but I'm tall & was a large plus size w/ very short hair and she was very slender, shorter, and looked about 17. STILL...ugh! I didn't like that much since we were peers.
Fast forward 10 years later, post-weight loss, I met 2 different people in our town who mistook me for that same girl! One of them insisted that I went to his church and called me by her name. Huge NSV honestly!25 -
seltzermint555 wrote: »NewLIFEstyle4ME wrote: »hallobailey wrote: »Weight loss is a very personal journey but it inevitably draws comments from the people around us. I’m curious, what kind of comments have you received related to your weight loss? Good, bad, frustrating. Here are a couple for me...
Good: “You are looking fit”
Frustrating: “you don’t have any weight to lose” or “don’t get obsessed with your new diet”
This is the 2ND time this week someone asked me if my SUPER YOUNG looking, really beautiful 20 something year old daughter was MY SISTER!!!!! I'm an older woman, btw...uhhhhh BOOM!
I love this ^ - really cool!
When I was 28-29, I worked with a younger girl (21 or 22) in a retail store and customers often thought she was my daughter. Sometimes sister, too...but daughter!?!? Honestly it didn't upset me too much because I thought she was pretty and we looked a lot alike (face/coloring), but I'm tall & was a large plus size w/ very short hair and she was very slender, shorter, and looked about 17. STILL...ugh! I didn't like that much since we were peers.
Fast forward 10 years later, post-weight loss, I met 2 different people in our town who mistook me for that same girl! One of them insisted that I went to his church and called me by her name. Huge NSV honestly!
That's utterly amazing. Isn't it tremendous how we can look (and feel) sooooo completely different, as we "get down to size" so to speak. WOW!
So HUGE, such wonderfully HUGE NSV (for both of us)! My hubby often teases me about not having any gray hair ( I do have a few gray hairs, but they kinda look like "streaks" or something, not traditional looking "gray hair" (YAY) (that was my children tell me). It's definitely genetics, because my parents and two of my grandparents didn't get gray until they were well into their 70's. The first time I heard it this week, my daughter was introducing to some of her friends and one of them said "this is your mother"? I thought she maybe your sister) . Honey, words can not described how joyfully shocked and super pleasantly surprised I was to hear that!
Then last night, we were shopping and I asked the sales woman if she would kindly please bring me a top and she said the top I wanted was really cute and did she want me to bring one for "my sister" too. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...WOW! When I told her that's my daughter and how old I am, she was utterly shocked and made me feel a million bucks TAX FREE. My daughter is stick skinny but with a figure that can stop traffic. I'm a size 8 now (down from a size 22w a year and 4 months ago--after being obese for more than 20 years). The BEST thing about it is I FEEL so much younger too. Thank you SO much for your reply!
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like "what did you do with your old clothes?"
hate "I thought you were on a diet?" -when they see me eating something that they figure is unhealthy.9 -
Father to me: 'your body's looking great' or something similar (uncertain on exact wording as I've blocked it from my mind)
Note to self: wear huge baggy sweater next christmas.
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You lost weight - Do you still want to lose more?
Someone has picked up my name tag twice now. There is my picture on it from a year and a half ago. "Oh you were a piggy" and the next time made a similar comment. My brother-in-law and a guy friend will both look me up and down.13 -
I hate it when we work thru lunch so the boss orders pizza and I turn it down and eat the lunch I brought. Then the next time their like oh yeah he can’t eat pizza so let’s get something else.
No. I can eat whatever I want. I just chose not to eat pizza that day. I might want pizza today.32 -
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Best came from the 'bedroom'
"I love that I can just toss you around"
It made me feel so light30 -
My best friend is finally exercising, and told me tonight she is tired of being fat. I asked her to join me in nov but she said no. She is over 300. I’m very pleased she is now motivated by my progress as she has a lot of health concerns because of weight. I told a group I had lost over 30 in 4 months and there was a room gasp! Motivation of others keeps me going too. My guy best friend has lost 17 too because I was dropping.22
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My favorite so far has been; "Wow, you're really losing a lot of weight. Is that just from, like, not drinking soda?" I haven't had soda in a month, save for one diet coke on a day I felt like I deserved it after dropping down to 220 (now at 214)... I wish that only cutting out soda got quick results. Chocolate cake and I would still be on speaking terms.19
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How did you lose the weight? And when I answer with diet and exercise they look so disappointed like I didn't have a magical solution.19
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When you say no thanks to junk food, "Oh, she thinks she's better than us. She's too good to eat cookies."
Umm...no? I worked hard to lose this weight, I'm not going to sabotage myself.
My mother's favorite (she means well, I promise lol)
"You've lost enough weight, you can stop going to the gym."
No, mom, I can't. It's not about losing weight anymore. I want to be strong.
And my absolute LEAST favorite, because I have a history with eating disorders and my EDNOS is the reason I gained weight in the first place. I've been recovered for a year and a half and lost all my weight the HEALTHY way.
"You're not gonna turn all anorexic are you? You're getting kinda skinny."
As if anorexia is a way of looking, not a way of thinking...26 -
Oooohhh! I forgot my favorite!
"Can you help me? How did you lose all the weight? I want to lose weight."
"Well, you see, I counted my calories and my macros, and I run frequently and go hiking and lift weights and-"
Then they cut me off with a laugh, "Ha. Yeah. I'm definitely not doing that."
Like, what? Did you expect me to sell you a miracle pill? Voodoo? That's how it works.27 -
"Oh, you've lost weight! You look so much better! Better don't gain it back!"
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Yeah, thanks, like I was planning to lose all the weight and then gain it back...14 -
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seltzermint555 wrote: »
I turned on my sarcastic side and actually told them that naaah, I'm thinking about losing some more and then I wanna see how fat I can get again.22 -
"You got to tell me your secret!" - There's no secret.
"I got to go on whatever diet you're on!"
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manderson27 wrote: »Friend "Look at you, you have lost a ton of weight"
Me "Yeah its slow but getting there, still have a way to go though"
Friend "You don't want to lose anymore it's ageing you"
Me "Not worried about how old I look just need to get the weight of my joints because of the Arthritis"
Friend "Really? Oh ok then"
Me as I walk away "Eye roll"
This from a work colleague who knows I had to give up working due to the pain. Who also is very overweight even though she had a gastric band fitted several years ago. Who is always trying to lose weight and complaining that she can't.
I have never told her that her tattoood lip liner and eybrows are ageing her. But I might....one day
I heard something similar. When I told them I finally had the willpower and have started losing weight, they said, just a heads up that you will look older once you lose the weight.
Right now I look younger than my age. So should I stay fat and unhealthy so I can look younger? Sigh...10 -
Interesting thread!!!!!3
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The worst is when people come up to you, "you need to tell me your meal plan" sit there waste 10 mins pf my time explaining it to them just so they can say, "that sounds hard" and never do it or ask again a few weeks later 😒14
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I had a friend say to me.. "You look better."
We're not friends anymore.21 -
"You've gone so thin. Have you been gyming?"
Nope, I just eat less.8 -
My aunt calls me "Skinny Minnie" every time she sees me.
You'd have to see this aunt, she's skin and bones, has been all her life. She and her daughter (my cousin) are genetically predisposed to being skin and bones (with no boobs or bum either). My sister got those genes and struggles to gain weight as well.
Anyway, she's skin and bones but calls me skinny.12 -
Yesterday at a seminar, I saw a guy from a company I used to work for a few years ago. "You've lost weight. On purpose, I hope?" I just smiled and filled him in on my heart surgery and my eat less, move more lifestyle changes.30
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Eat more pizza.
Did you want another?
Have more!
Eat up.
Look what I just bought for you...
I have people in my life that clearly try to sabotage.
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" im so motivated to lose weight now"
" how did you do it?"
" bro, people have been asking if youre sick"
( sees me jogging on the road ) " OH so Thats the secret!!!
" wow, you really lost alot of weight!"
Jokingly " sir! Were going to have to drug test you, youve lost alot of weight hmm hmm ?"5 -
I hear a lot of what is being said on this thread. I fell that those who make the statements are genuinely curious, happy for me, and envious that I have stuck to my plan. Most recently I have gotten the, "are you still calorie counting?" line. I can see that they are proud at my dedication and exhausted by it at the same time, because when I tell them yes and that I will be doing it for a long time I can see it in their face. Some even say that they could never be that thorough with their diet.
I try to explain that it will eventually become habit and that both your brain and body will be accustomed to this lifestyle if you just stick to it.
I plan on always paying 50 cents more for the 35 cal/slice bread. It's just the adjustments to life that will stay with me for as long as I am willing to put myself first.19 -
ExistingFish wrote: »My aunt calls me "Skinny Minnie" every time she sees me.
You'd have to see this aunt, she's skin and bones, has been all her life. She and her daughter (my cousin) are genetically predisposed to being skin and bones (with no boobs or bum either). My sister got those genes and struggles to gain weight as well.
Anyway, she's skin and bones but calls me skinny.
I mentioned this upthread, but that's the worst to me...seems very condescending, whether it's meant to be or not.3 -
The worst is when people come up to you, "you need to tell me your meal plan" sit there waste 10 mins pf my time explaining it to them just so they can say, "that sounds hard" and never do it or ask again a few weeks later 😒
I try to combat this by responding "move more, eat less" when people ask what I am doing. The idea of eating less, typically generates the response, "oh, I can't do that" or 'oh, that doesn't work for me"
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People ask if I've lost weight.
Response "Yes, 165 lbs so far but I still have a few more to lose"
Their response to that is "Don't you feel a lot better?"
Well DUH! Of course I feel 'better' I'm not carrying an extra person around all the time! I don't know why it irritates me when they ask that but it does.18
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