Fun Poll: Compliments that are just NOT compliments.
Since weight loss is not even, I have very thin face shoulders and arms. I still carry about 20 lbs I would like to see gone on my hips and stomach. So the comment I love is you do not need to lose anymore weight. If they were carrying around the extra weight they would want to lose it but because my face is thin I must be too thin now.
Ya gotta just love the backhanded compliments..... they mean well....Don't they?!?
I have heard a few recently and this one make me feel like sh*t..."Oh my gawd!!!! You have lost a ton of weight!!! Look at you!!" and ...."every time I see you, you look better and better...." well, that might sound really nice but I sometimes think..." ok, so how BAD did I look before??? cuz I still have a ways to go!!"
Mostly people are very nice.... and very supportive. 
Tam 
Highest Weight: 365lbs Clinic Weight: 325lbs Clinic goal:190 lbs Current Weight: 176.4lbs My goal:165lbs
Surgery: Dr. Yelle Ottawa on March 23, 2012
on 11/15/12 4:22 am - Bumfuknowhere, Canada
HAHAHAHA!
Karen
Ontario Recipes Forum - http://www.obesityhelp.com/group/ontario_recipes/ 
Haha! Great comeback!
Yes, I remember one time (only once!) in my early 20's, I starved about 100 lbs off using Fen-Phen before it was taken off the market. My lowest weight was between 160 and 163 or so. Only time in my adult life (or life at all, actually!) that I was ever a normal weight.
Anyhow, I remember getting all sorts of those kinds of comments from people. "Wow, you've lost lots of weight! Keep up the great work - a few more pounds and you'll be there!" Or "A few more pounds and you'll be stunning!" Or "Another 20 or 30 lbs and you'll be gorgeous!"
I was young and not as outspoken as now, and I did kind of wish I could lose a bit more, but I hated the comments about how much more I had to lose. I looked fine as I was, and while I wasn't model weight, I was no longer an unhealthy weight.
(Of course, I ended up gaining it back, along with much, much more...)
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The another 20-30 comment cracked me up...
This guy I knew came up to me in a bar (back when I was a size 16-18 (on my way back there now) and told me that I was a solid 9 when I was all done up... AND If I would just lose about 50 lbs I would be a perfect 10 and I should go pose for mens magazines.
Um... really?
I thanked him and started to walk away. Le's just say I might have needed to lose 50 lbs according to him but it certainly didn't stop him from a "firmness check" on my cheek. Let's just say I don't hit like a girl.
Seriously though... People mean well.
My most recent experience with an offensive comment that was intended to be kind, or helpful came from someone post op. (NOT on OH... in real time) Think "lecture the pre-op" time times 100!
I just keep reminding myself "You is good... You is kind (when you want to be)... And... You IS important!" while I play with my deflating arms. It's my game... *looks around cause she just realized she admitted yet again that she plays with the squishy parts*
Dr Sullivan VSG Jan. 8th, 2013!
Lost 100 lbs in a year post op with a VSG.
