Do people comment on your weight loss

[bookworm8500]

Hi everyone,
I have lost 4 stone since March this year 😊 I have gone from 14 stone to 10 stone (I'm 5 ft 5).

However, I've only had 1 person comment on my weight loss who said 'wow, you're disappearing'.
Other comments have only been when I mentioned I still wanted to lose another 7 pounds.

I obviously haven't lost weight for the compliments BTW but there's a part of me that worries people haven't noticed and still think I'm really overweight 😬 Or do people not comment on weight loss these days?

That's unusual, I lost 2 stones I'm 13 from 15 stones and a lot of people have noticed even though I'm still quite big . People normally notice and compliment you . Anyways congratulations!!! As long as you feel good I'd love to hit my 4 stone mark

I've lost over 3 stone now and since I lost 2 stone I've had comments. I wonder why people aren't saying anything? It must be obvious. I bet you look great!

A cheeky prisoner ( I work in a men's prison) told me I'd "lost my arse" recently! I told him off for personal remarks but he's the only one to notice my 3 stone loss so far!

Yep I lost 2.5 stone, not one comment.

I’ve lost 2 stone. 2 colleagues have commented, but no out of work friends and not my husband or children!

I've lost almost 5 stone and nobody has commented.

That's really weird, @AnnieMay2000. Are you at your goal weight?

Yes at my goal weight. I did mention it to a parent at my kids football club as we were talking about weight and she was telling me the plan she was on. I said I've lost almost 5 stone over the last year. She just said " really ".

Yes, but then people know i go to SW. I was told I look frail recently. I loved that one

I would never comment on anyone's weight unless they mentioned it first.
This was after being quite rightly just told off for doing it by a friend who I later found out had an eating disorder.
No one has ever mentioned my weight loss because it hasn't happened 😂

I think people are abit more cautious about mentioning anything potentially 'triggering'🙄these days TBH.
Ive lost over 7st and have had a few comments, esp from family (and people who genuinely hadnt recognized me!) but not that many really.

I've lost 4 stones and 5 lbs but over 21 months on Ozempic. After I lost 3 stone a lot of my son's friends who play cricket with him, so they had not seen me since previous year noticed and said your Mum's lost a lot of weight. My sisters and my DC have noticed. A few random people who I hadn't seen for a while said I look better.

I wouldn't comment on anyone's body, even if they looked noticeably different.

TBH, I prefer people not to make comment

I was going out on the works night last year, so was pretty well dressed, nothing OTT, just not my usual jeans and hoodie, and was in the pub with DH waiting my lift and one of the regular customers called me over and said - Wow you look amazing" which was lovely, but he then went on to ruin it to say how lovely it was to see me looking so trim and basically yapped on and on about my obvious weight loss

I smiled and was polite, but inside I was like WTF are you to make comment on me?

I wouldn't comment on someone else's loss or gain unless they mentioned to me that they had lost/gained and were up for a chat .

I think people don't comment as much anymore. I've lost 20lbs and not a single comment apart from my mum and that was after I bought the subject up.

I've lost almost 3 stone and have gone down three dress sizes but no one has said anything, and I'm not sure I want them to!! Well my husband has, but he doesn't count

I am still wearing a lot of my older clothes as I don't want to buy new ones just yet, so that may be partly it. I think it'll be obvious at my work Xmas do when I wear a dress in the correct size, but I'm not sure anyone will specifically say 'you've lost weight' as I think people feel uncomfortable when talking about someone else's weight generally. More just 'You look great!', that kind of thing.

I'm not sure I would say anything about weight to anyone other than a very close friend.

I think people don't mention it out of fear of putting their foot in it like the story @suki1964 told.
There is also alot of stigma surrounding weight loss drugs and I think people don't mention weight loss to avoid asking if that's how you did it ( to be clear I'm not judging those who do or don't use them. I genuinely don't care but there are others who do)

www.glamour.com/story/when-weight-loss-is-noticeable

I think this article is accurate.

The first person at work said, "I don't know if I'm allowed to say this" first. I think people don't like to mention it. I certainly wouldn't. I mean they wouldn't mention weight gain so mentioning weight loss is probably not comme il faut either.

And this. There so much food in my office and everyone knows I won't eat sugar or carbs so it's obvious I'm doing it with food/exercise. But I do think people worry about asking if it's injections.

Goodness knows why, it's not 'cheating'. Any more than keto is, because that affects hunger as well!

I have lost 4 stone since March and no one has mentioned it. But as a pp said I’m still trying to use a lot of my old clothes so it’s not as noticeable. I do think people don’t mention it now as it’s mostly seen as rude

God this probably sounds really sad but no one has noticed my weight loss. I guess they didn’t really notice my weight gain either. I have been totally consumed by work (and working from home) and haven’t socialised that often outside of work. So some people probably think I roughly look like what I did the last time I saw them!

I have lost 16kg this year and no one has commented.

I think a lot is down to being careful with what we say.
I had a few close friends say things along the lines of, hope it's ok to say you've lost weight, one asked if I was ok as she'd noticed weight loss but wasn't sure if I was actually trying to lose weight or other reasons for loss.
I've also had friends not mention it at all.
I don't think we used to think so much about mentioning weight years ago; and a few will add, you've lost weight, but you looked great before too and didn't need to (total lie but I get it's the whole saying the right thing 🤷🏽‍♀️).

I had this recently with a friend who I thought had lost weight, I wondered whether to say anything and in the end I didn't. She sometimes behaves a little strangely around food (we've been friends for years but I've hardly ever seen her eat anything. For example if we go for lunch she'll order for the kids but not herself - not a money issue). I decided that even though she'd obviously done well to lose it, she might be embarrassed and it wasn't my business to comment.

I found people tended to say "you are looking well" rather than comment on the weight loss itself.

Would you like if people commented on your weight if you weren't losing weight? No? There you go then. People are learning to not comment on weight either way because you don't know who you'll offend.

I'm not sure why this sort of question gets asked so many times online when it's really not difficult to figure out.