Most annoying comments people make about dieting

People who make snarky comments about fast food + diet soda.

I have not once told people that I'm on a diet. Because I'm not.
My diet is what I eat on a regular basis - I'm following Canada's food guide. That's what I tell people, and they don't give me a hard time about what I eat. Most people tell me to eat more, actually. xD

muscles look horrible on women

^^ this. Another of my most annoying comments I get from other women

"Oh, you've lost weight. It won't last."
Similarly, "I lost a lot of weight too, but I put it all back on. You probably will too."
"You've lost a lot of weight. Did you mean to? Are you sick?"
And quite possibly my favourite, "how did you lose the weight?" Well, by eating more fruit more veg and less junk and moving more, to which I almost always receive a disappointed, "oh."

Co-worker #1 - OMG you are so skinny! What size are you now?
*Note - I am effing 180 lbs and she is maybe 120 lbs ... WTF is wrong with her?

Co-worker #2 - Do you ever eat?
*Note - No b*tch, I don't.. so get like me.. WTF

Co-worker #3 - Girl you need a hamburger because you can't get smaller than me!
*Note - WAKE UP you conceited wh0re; I am already smaller than you. WTF

Hubby - Your @ss is so flat now I could do laundry on it...
*Note - well, most of the men in my office enjoy my new, smaller @ss.. and since when do you do laundry anyway?!?!

:laugh:

"You look like you need a cheeseburger" Really? Because that wasn't sending me towards a heart attack before, right? http://www.myfitnesspal.com/blog/mzenzer


"You are skinny enough" Seriously? Skinny? Can you see bones? I'm 6'1" 195 pounds by what criteria is that "skinny"?

"Your clothes are falling off of you, gain some weight back". Yes, genius, that's what happens when you lose 40+ pounds and are still wearing some of your extra large shirts and 34in waist jeans. Getting a new wardrobe is expensive, but that's not a reason to fill the clothes out.

I think the most glaring thing about how others see you after losing some weight is not what they say, it's that they say anything at all, and at that time what they say and how they say it. When I was walking into my office 50 lbs heavier, cholesterol of 264 (not that they could see that) no body said a damn thing. No, we are worried about you. You don't look healthy, etc. But when you actually get healthy (195lbs and 157 cholesterol) then all the comments like the above start flowing. I guess our social standards just prevent people from speaking their mind from fear of insulting someone when they are not doing good, but have no problem with indirectly, or even directly, insulting someone when they are actually doing some good things.

Co-worker #1 - OMG you are so skinny! What size are you now?
*Note - I am effing 180 lbs and she is maybe 120 lbs ... WTF is wrong with her?

Co-worker #2 - Do you ever eat?
*Note - No b*tch, I don't.. so get like me.. WTF

Co-worker #3 - Girl you need a hamburger because you can't get smaller than me!
*Note - WAKE UP you conceited wh0re; I am already smaller than you. WTF

Hubby - Your @ss is so flat now I could do laundry on it...
*Note - well, most of the men in my office enjoy my new, smaller @ss.. and since when do you do laundry anyway?!?!

This made me literally LOL!

I hate when people do the concerned thing even though they can clearly see that I'm not too thin and still have weight to lose. "Do you ever eat?! What have you eaten today?" is one I really hate. I eat just fine.

Or people that try to tell me I should be eating potatoes because it's really good for you. Yeah it might be good for you, but I have PCOS, I know what's good for *me* and potato is not it.

"Wow, you must have lost at least 100 lbs! Your looking good."

That comment always makes me think, how fat ugly did I look before? Not very motivational.

"muscle weighs more than fat"

errr, no it doesn't!

Uh... yes it does.

That is why you burn more calories when you carry around more lean muscle. Don't let the whole "pound for pound" argument confuse you. Lean muscle is heavier than fat!

A pound is a pound is a pound. One pound can't way more than another pound. You can fit more lean muscle in the same space as a little bit of fat, hence the reason that people say muscle weighs more than fat

Two out of three aint bad! LOL!!!

1lb is 1lb is 1lb is 1lb

My mother-in-law called her son/my husband on Thanksgiving curious to know what we were having. All of the side dishes were all from scratch, much healthier versions and the turkey was stuffed with mirepoix, fresh lemons, herb-bundles, and I made sure to have one truly luscious and naughty dessert, and I also made a much healthier option for dessert for me.... His mother asked "when is she ever going to make you real food?"

I heard my husband tell her pretty damn blunt "if real vegetables, real herbs and real ingredients arent real food, what the hell are YOU eating, Mom?"

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Besides, my husband loves my homemade stuffing, he loves my cauliflower au-gratin, what the bloody hell does SHE care? This is a woman who has had two heart attacks, a stroke and refuses to change her eating habits per her doctor's instructions... She can kiss my a**!!!!

When someone says.... "Losing Weight is so Hard"


Actually I think when I was 265, had trouble walking, couldn't find nice clothes that fit, refused to be in a picture..... That was the HARD PART... Getting thinnier is the easy part I think

I hate when people judge what I eat...or if they don't say something, they give me the 'look'. I've had freinds/family that say stuff like, "Is that on your diet?" and I told them, "Well, first of all, this isn't a diet, it's a lifestyle. And second of all, you are one to talk--you don't know what a portion is or what healthy is, and THIRD of all, this is MY lifestyle, not yours. So if I want a piece of candy, or a chip, I'm going to eat it!" I work my *kitten* off daily and watch what I eat consistently. Yes, I may eat a cookie, but that probably means I watched what I ate the rest of the day. And just because I had one, does not mean I had 5.

"Muscle weighs more than fat"...um no, a pound is a pound...it just looks different.

I get real annoyed when MFP closes out my day and people comment to nit pick on me using mayo or BBQ sauce even though I am short like 825 calories for the day!!!!

This has happened to me only a few times, but it sure is annoying....especially when THEY are over their calories for the day! If I am under and had a great day, dammit, I deserve some ketchup. I keep my diary open to my friends to hold myself accountable. Thankfully most of them are very supportive and helpful with their suggestions. Some though try to tear you down because they themselves aren't doing so hot.

I get real annoyed when MFP closes out my day and people comment to nit pick on me using mayo or BBQ sauce even though I am short like 825 calories for the day!!!!

Noooo! that is horrible that people on MFP would do that. It is not about completely cutting things out, it is about being smarter. We can have bad stuff sometimes (and mayo and BBQ sauce are not bad in and of themselves - just if it is a lot of it all the time)

This is years ago, but I knew I had gotten big when my grandmother went from "have some more of this (whatever food)" to "you don't need that."