I lost weight & no-one noticed!

[boxedandribboned]

Has anyone else experienced this? I'm finding it odd!

I've lost weight at various times in the past (usually post pregnancy) & usually people have noticed/commented on it.

This time, I've lost almost a stone (down from 9 st 12 at the beginning of August to about 9 stone). No-one has said anything! I've been able to fit back into the clothes I wore before covid, which has been huge for me.

I'm not upset about the fact that no-one's noticed, I'm just finding it a bit odd. It struck particularly on the weekend when we went to visit a friend, and she told us she'd lost a stone. When we were driving home, DH said 'It's interesting she's lost weight, I was thinking how much smaller she was than last time we saw her!"

This happened to me some years ago. I've had an ongoing battle with my weight most of my adult life. I lost 4 stone in my late teens and everyone noticed. Put it all back in again with interest by my mid 20s,was seriously ill in my late 20s and lost it all. Again,everyone noticed. Recovered my health,put back on 4 stone by early 30s. Went on a diet in mid 30s, lost it all again and NOT ONE SINGLE PERSON noticed! Or if they did,they didn't say anything! So disheartening. Surprise surprise I put it all back on again with interest. Had another major health scare 5 and half years ago which pushed me to lose 7 stone,which so far,I have kept off. And this time, people HAVE noticed! 😊

Sorry OP but a stone isn't that much to lose. I lost 4 stone and people didn't notice- size 18-10. A stone is noticeable if you're underweight, not overweight

It is no longer acceptable to make comments about weight so I never ask someone if they lost weight or congratulate them on losing weight as that is fat-phobic and very much frowned upon. I still notice but would never mention it now

I've lost half a stone, down from about nine stone 3 to 8 stone 10. I don't think it's a massively noticeable weight loss to be honest. And even if I get down to my target weight of eight stone, I'm not sure anybody will particularly notice apart from me. They probably might notice that I wondered round in a bikini all the time, But I tend to wear large jumpers et cetera

I noticed! You look fab, boxed. ☺️

I've lost 25lbs over 9 months (BMI down from 26 something to 21.5 so it's a significant amount). It took DH about 6 months to notice I'd lost anything. Someone at work commented but I was seated and she was looking at my face and I had my hair tucked behind one ear, which I don't usually.

I lost 4 stone and went blond and no one said a word. Not even dh

Back in the mid 90s,I lost 3 stone over 6 months and not one single person noticed!

I don't think it's noticeable to others. Sorry. Well done for losing it, but in my experience you have to lose 3 stone+ for others to notice. And often it takes people time to dress to their new size so possibly wearing older baggier clothes don't help.

I never comment on peoples' bodies, it just seems rude and awkward. What would you even say!

"Oh wow X have you lost weight?"

This just implies I thought were a overweight before and had noticed. Some people bring it up and love to show you their 'before' photos, I find this weird and attention seeking too.

I went from a size 24 and 23 stone to a size 16 and 16 stone before anyone said anything to me.

People don’t really like to comment on weight. If someone is losing weight they might be unwell or if they yo-yo diet will make them feel worse when regained. I tend to tell people they look really well and what have they been doing when they’ve lost weight. Then they tell me about dropping 5 kilos, a dress size or the break up diet type stuff.

I just wanted to add to this post as I could see a lot of people have said that nowadays people don't comment on other peoples weight.

I’m finding this particularly hard as I've lost 13 kg and not one person has said anything but my husband has lost a few pounds and literally every single person has said ‘oh my God you look so well you've lost so much weight. You look amazing’ so why are people giving the compliments to the guys and not the women? I can see why people can find it a bit intrusive because people might be losing the weight through stress or illness but all of my friends and family know that I'm on a healthy weight loss journey and I'm actually documenting it on TikTok so they know I'm not scared about talking about my weight and it's not a sensitive subject and yet still nothing.

Am I probably overthinking this?

Weirdly I’ve lost 1.5 stone recently and loads of people have commented. I hate it, and I wish they wouldn’t. It makes me feel really awkward.

I’ve lost 1.5 stone and loads of people have noticed, and commented.

Me too lost two stone and eighteen months and no one has commented (other than DH who has been very complimentary). I don’t understand how people cannot see the obvious change.

A stone isn't always that noticeable.

I can't imagine 12 pounds weight loss is massively obvious.

Why do you need approval from others @boxedandribboned ?

I find that unlikely (that no-one noticed a 4 stone weight loss,) unless you went from 26 stone to 22 stone.

People probably noticed but never said anything. As has been said, some people don't like to comment. My DH lost 2 and a half to 3 stone several years ago and kept bragging to me how he was on the 5th notch on his belt now (from the 2nd,) and he had lost 6" off his waist, etc. And he kept walking across the room allowing his XXL jogging bottoms fall to his feet, to illustrate how he had lost soooo much weight. 🙄 He was like 'oooh what am I like? These joggers are just soooooooo big now!)

It was so fucking tedious. And even more tedious was him carping on about how not ONE SINGLE PERSON had noticed. He is in his mid 50s, and has lost 2-3 stone around 9-10 times over the past 30-35 years, (and always regained it with a few extra pounds each time,) and I think people are just bored with his dieting.. I know I am.

Are perhaps like this @boxedandribboned Are you always dieting? Losing weight and regaining it and then dieting again et al.........???

I’ve lost nearly 30lbs. Mounjaro (best thing ever!).
was out with a friend the other day and after a few hours I said, do you notice anything different about me? She said, have you lost some weight? She nearly died when I said how much! She could believe that she hadn’t noticed!😂
we think it’s that I ‘carry weight’ well?! I was out tonight with others and some won’t have seen me since the weight loss and no one commented…weird!
congratulations on the loss OP.