Most annoying comments people make about dieting

"Oh, you're trying to lose weight again?"

"You've been doing this forever - maybe this is just your comfortable weight." (I'm about thirty pounds above the ideal weight for my height and bone structure.)

"You know, counting calories doesn't work."

"If you lose any more weight there won't be anything left."
Ummm maybe I hide it well but I am still overweight and still not pleased with my body. K, thanks.


Oooh! And when my boyfriend knows I'm working out, if I skip a day he criticizes me.
I'm not stuck on a ship where my only option for free time is working out. I have a life too. Soooooooorry! How much have YOU worked out since you deployed? I love you babe, but STFU!

My idiot brother constantly talks about Veganism (I am a practicing Vegan) when he is not one and the health benefits it provides and that I should eat the morningstar veggie burgers. I tell him they have egg in it no can do. He repeatedly argues this point as soon as I see him. I won't engage him further than saying they have egg in them, check your nutrition labels which he says he has. When you flip the box over it says "Contains Eggs." Some of them also contain cheese.

He also talks to me constantly about blood type diets and that i need to start eating his O negative diet. I told him I am not O negative and I am not interested, he gets mad and argues with me about this telling me I have to be O negative My clinic and Doctors are wrong and are hiding something from me. The guy just can't be wrong about anything. I jut ignore it and walk away.

I have a co worker who does not understand Vegetarianism let alone 'this veganist crap" and constantly brings meat snacks (Like Beef jerky) and waves it in front of me in an attempt to get me to switch back. I only switched to this since last summer so he feels like I suddenly switched political parties and some how feels let down by my food choices. I tried reasoning with him once pointing out food is a personal choice and he shouldn't be worried about what I choose to do. He told me that was "Homosexual nonsense". I am not gay however I have two co workers who are and were sitting right there as he said this. He has no clue they are gay and they are terrified to 'come out at work' because of this man.

I would like to also add I get nothing but loving support and compliments from the rest of my co-workers and the rest of my family. If it wasn't for them counter balancing these other two dummies, I might be on the next episode of 'cops'.

People who are lucky and do not have to fight weight are absolutely the worst when it comes to explaining to them how difficult dieting can be and keeping off the weight. So I do not talk to them about dieting ever....everyone is happier this way.

I rarely tell people in my life that I am trying to eat healthier to lose weight, because I am sure those are the exact reactions I would get and I fear that would frighten me away from getting healthier (I know, it's something I need to get over and I will, someday)

The only people I told were my mother, who is trying to lose weight herself and is very supportive and the person who was supposedly one of my closest friends (we don't speak anymore).

The only annoying thing said to me was by my friend, "c'mon you can stop for two minutes and come and get some tacos with us, they can't be that bad for you."

It's like yeah they are, plus I know how I behave in fast food restuarants, I want to try everything and will order way too much. And if I haven't seen a change in myself as i've been losing weight, I will fall off the healthy eating wagon faster than you can say, diet.

You shouldn't run, it's really bad for your breasts and uterus. REALY?! I guess my OBGyn don't know sh$$ then because she supports my running!

My husband has lost 100 lbs and people are always asking him if he is sick, like cancer or something. WTF is wrong with people?! He looks AWESOME!

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.