"You don't need to lose weight"

Well said!!!! I also hate it when family and friends know you are watching what you eat and you get "is THAT on your diet". I smile and simply say "you can have anything you want as long as it is in moderation and within your calorie count for the day." Then I change the subject.

I agree, so much! I don't tell people I diet, because of this. It's like people won't let you choose how your own body is supposed to look. As long as I eat and am healthy I want to choose for myself, thank you.

My friends always say "why are you counting your calories" or "you don't need to lose any weight!!" but I'm still like "well...guys I am still about five pounds overweight...I'd like to be at a healthy weight" so frustrating sometimes.

my friends always do the same thing to me, but working out and eating healthy is a personal goal that I want to maintain and it doesn't help when they're very insensitive about it... feel free to add me, I haven't learned how to add people yet on here :-)

I'm there, too. I've been 20 lbs overweight and I guess don't look it and have gotten those comments. I'm afraid, too, I have been on the other side, and made those comments myself, so thanks for the heads up. I need to pay more attention.

I believe the mindset needs to be fixed. You do "Go on a Diet". Your diet is the daily regimen intake of nutrition...in other words what you eat on a regular basis. When someone says negatively that you don't need to Diet....correct them. That should shut them up. And if it doesn't, tell them you have committed to always improving who you are, mind, body, and soul....

I also get the 'your really tall u carry it well' comments, but the bmi takes into account your height and mine still comes out at obese, im aware i dont look like ur typically obese person (or what people consider to be stereotypically obese) but im still too big for my height and its unhealthy and its puttin my overall health at risk, i used to get told i didnt need to diet when i was younger and a lot smaller than i am now, but clearly i did or i wudnt have got to where i am now. if you said to someone i dont need to diet and want to eat rubbish wud they disagree with u and tell u that u did....no thats just rude so wot makes it different the other way around

Yep, I'm the same way. Even my doctor said that my weight is fine, I just need to "move more". So even though I'm not really losing a lot of weight (it took me a couple of weeks to finally drop 1/2 pound) I'm going to the gym at least 5 mornings a week (at 5 a.m. - yikes!) and tracking what I eat keeps me honest - at least to myself. I'm viewing this "journey" as a lifestyle makeover - I want to feel better and be healthier. Even though I'm not "overweight:", I'm very "flabby" and out of shape and I'm just trying to improve me general condition.

Good luck!!!! Add me as a friend, if you want - it's nice to see someone who has similar goals / outlook as me. :happy:

i was arguing (not too heated tho) with a work colleague yesterday about this. Shes very lovely and well meaning person but her telling me that i dont need to lose weight really wound me up! i explained that actually my bmi is obese, i am at least 3 stone (32lbs) overweight and struggle to wear a UK size 18 -so YES! i do actually need to lose weight espec if i dont want to end up like my Mum who having been obese for the last 30 years has knackered her knees and back, is type2 diabetic and nas high bp!

If it's any consolation, eventually they will stop. Eventually it will just be second nature to them that you eat healthy. They will actually forget that you did ever eat crappy food.

I don't bother with the "I'm eating healthy" or "I'm counting calories", I just say things like "No, thanks, don't feel like it" "No thanks, I don't really care for that" "No thanks, I just ate"

Some people want to help, some want sabotage you, some want to hurt. Since diet and loosing weight is something that I am doing for me, I now tell very few people. Then I do not need to explain or sift through the comments to detemine if it helpful or hurtful. Or if its a helpful comment that just rubs me the wrong way.

I think some people feel guilty for eating something unhealthy as well and by refusing it you remind them of this, so they try to get you to eat it as well to justify their own maybe bad choice. Or they get slightly annoyed that you've highlighted it.

I used to get it LOL!! I guess compared to the 350 I used to weigh I look okay, but I know where I am.

I just laugh and decline, tell them I know what the sacle says in the morning.

I just shake my head at some of the comments people let fly sometimes.

I weigh in at 240, right now, and there are thin people at work that scoff at me wanting to lose 65 pounds which would put me down to 175. I mean really?

I may not hit 175, but I'm gonna try! I want to be in a healthy weight range for my frame.

Telling a woman who is over 200 pounds that they don't need to lose weight or that they should lose down to a health range is just plain ignorant.

If offered something that is out of my calorie range, I simply say no thanks and move on. I will be the first to tell you, I treat myself when I want to.