Most annoying comments people make about dieting

When I got down to a size 4, my husband said i looked like someone you just came out of a concentration camp and my mother in law would tell him "She is looking really anorexic". His whole family is over weight too! I was in a healthy BMI. Actually could have lost 15 more pounds and still been in a healthy range. Took me a year to lose so it's not like i did it the unhealthy way. People are so ignorant!

"I just don't see where you need to lose the weight . . . but if you think you need to . . . " Grrr! I think people get used to seeing everyone overweight that they forget what a healthy weight looks like.

The other day I went out to dinner and got "How many calories do you have left? You can go over just a little bit, can't you?" Uh, hello? We have been over this before....I need to lose another 20 lbs.

/soapbox

How bout family members who have picked on you saying "you're looking pudgy" or "watch her eyes when she eats, she gets so excited!" and nonstop comments like that? When they start seeing me resist food they love feeding, it's considered a new challenge to make me eat again! Literally, my dad eats horribly and whenever he's eating something, he comes over and puts the bag in my face or tempts me another way..

"You know you want it" ...yes I do.. but thanks anyway.

Or also my physical trainer boyfriend who thinks he knows everything about fitness and health commenting on my MFP and how I'm eating and what i'm doing at the gym, etc. etc.

"I can't wait to show you how to really work out!" ...thanks, i'm doing fine on my own.

some people need to GET OVER IT!

@MrNunny

"muscle weighs more than fat"

errr, no it doesn't!


errr.. Actually it does in the context of body size and dieting. Muscle is more dense than fat therefore 5lb of muscle will take up considerably less volume than 5lb of fat and the person with muscle rather than fat will be slimmer even if they weigh the same.

I've definitely had all the "you're getting way too skinny," even from people who have told me I was looking big before.

The most annoying ones, though: I was sitting at the dinner table with my friends and someone asked me if I was going to eat something (if they should pass me the dish) and my friend says in a really snide voice "no, she's dieting." This same friend has made countless other comments like that, and when I first started losing weight, she told a ton of people, whose business it certainly was not! Then I had to deal with figuring out how to respond to her weird comments.
Note, this same friend is now dieting! I haven't made one condescending comment about it!

One friend also asked if I was anorexic and told me if I was she couldn't be my friend anymore. I assured her I wasn't and explained my lifestyle (she sees me eat all the time)! She then told me she couldn't spend time with me anymore regardless of the fact that I was eating healthy because it made her feel bad about herself.

I also have had people comment "you can't eat that" or push food on me "please, won't you just try one bite, come on" and then act personally offended if I don't. Ugh, so frustrating that people can't just offer basic respect, understanding and support.

"You are trying to lose weight? So what do you eat... Salad?"

You're not losing MORE weight are you???

Guy I am "Seeing": *
*Talking about how someone we know used to be really overweight*
"Oh yeah, she was probably about 250 lbs...that's huge, it's obese! (I was about 250 lbs at the time when he said that. All I could think was "uhhhh...really cuz you're seeing me and I'm 250lbs" I guess I didn't look like I was 250 lbs! lol)

My husband said something similar to that when we first started dating, he was like "I would never date anyone over 200lbs, I don't even know how people get that big!" I admit though I was 215 at the time, but I looked closer to 180lbs (i carried it well cause I'm tall) I was like...err I guess he'll never know how much I weigh and I never told him until we got pregnant and he went to the doc with me and she was like "You weigh 240 at 12 weeks what was your starting weight?"

I think the worst thing though is when I'm around my husbands family (who all of them in my definition are skinny, even my husband who can't gain weight hardly) and they are like, "oh I need to lose weight!" Then make a really unhealthy (but delicious) meal, and say stuff like, oh one plate isn't going to kill you!

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!!!!

I'm pretty sure the folks I've friended on here wouldn't do that to me, but I don't make my diary available for viewing because I don't want people to comment about the food choices. I know I don't eat "good" food, but I eat what I like. I just eat much less of it than I used to.

If I did have my food diary viewable and a mfp friend made a negative comment about something I chose to eat, that person would soon find themselves a former mfp friend.

"What type of diet are you on, Mom! You keep eating and eating!" (I was eating fruit and a piece of candy.)

"I don't want you to lose too much weight." (My boyfriend upon telling him what my end weight is going to be.)

"Here, have this (huge) piece of cake. It won't hurt you!" (Ongoing problem with friends and relatives. They don't understand that I am REALLY going to lose weight this time!)