This blog needs no introduction.
If you have lost or are losing weight, you will run into people who say stupid things. Some of those things you’ll keep hearing with a slight variations from each person who says it.
Here are 9 more common stupid things and 9 (private thoughts) or replies to keep them from upsetting you or setting you back.
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Why bother, diets always fail. You’re just going to end up even bigger!
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You probably should lose a little more weight before you wear that!
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(When everybody is dining on lasagna and garlic bread) Oh! Look at you being so good eating salad!
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(When everybody is dining on lasagna and garlic bread) Oh! Look at you eating all this bad food. Is today a cheat day?
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Are you losing weight? You lost 60 pounds? Oh yeah, now that you mention it I can see it in your face!
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I know somebody who just lost 80 pounds in the time you’ve only lost 30!
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Go ahead, take another piece. I won’t tell anybody!
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Come on couch potato! Let’s go for a walk. The exercise will do you good.
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The additional health issues that come with an obese population will only make this problem worse. Additionally, now that health insurance is mandated, individual people’s health choices have a direct impact on the costs paid by everyone.
(1) Thanks for the support! Nice to know you have such confidence in me. Actually diets don’t always fail.
(2) I don’t remember consulting you for fashion advice. (Or better yet in the words of Eric Cartman) “Wut eva! I do wot I waaaannnt!”
(3) What I choose to eat is what I want at the moment and my choices have nothing to do with how good or bad I am being… or in other words, wut eva! I do wot I waaannnt!
(4) If this food is so bad, why are you eating it? – or – Eating isn’t cheating!
(5) Thanks for the compliment.
(6) Is that person who loses weight faster than I can, also more tactful than you?
(7) I’m not taking another piece because I’m satisfied with one piece. I am not worried about your telling on me.
(8) Maybe exercise is good for me, but it won’t fix what’s wrong with you.
(9) That’s a problem with the system, not an individual’s “health choices.”