Struggling with compliments!

I totally understand where you're coming from and it doesn't sound weird at all to me! I struggled with it for a long time. People commented on my weight and my body every single time I saw them and I really struggle with attention/being noticed. Fortunately I have a good therapist who's been helping me work through a lot of this or I honestly think those well-meaning compliments might have knocked me off my diet early on.

It does start to get easier as people get used to your new weight. They won't feel the need to comment as often. Also, if it feels okay to you, you might talk to some of your friends about it and see if you can stop some of the comments before they start. You might need to think long and hard about why the extra attention is tough for you to handle (journaling helps me, but find what's right for you) and just know that what matters is how you feel and not what anyone else is noticing.

Celebrating tiny success (like compliments) will not interfere with your ability to progress unless you let it. Maybe there's some confusion happening somewhere. It kind of sounds like you don't like the compliments because it's an indication that you're done, when in fact you state that you have more progress to make. I'm tempted to say that you might want to take a look at why you're really losing the weight, if other people's opinions about your success are impacting you to that degree.

I say lose the weight for you and accept the positive feedback in the spirit in which it was intended :flowerforyou:

I understand you completely. I hate talking about my weight loss. I'm not done losing weight yet but I get really self-conscious when people say "hey you've lost weight! you look better!"

it could be we have low self-esteem which i am working on still after all these years of feeling not good enough for others. i did this weight loss for myself and nobody forced me to do this but somehow i feel like others still look at me as a fat person. i know i am not that fat anymore but i still look in the mirror and see ugly...and then i think "how could they say these things to me?" i still have trouble eating in front of people sometimes.

i'm sure as i gain more confidence in myself that will change but for now i totally get it. i think we all need time to adapt to our new bodies and lifestyle. maybe we will learn to love ourself the way others do. i don't know what to do except keep trying to think positive and keep going for the goals you set for yourself.