s/o weight

angelakh · January 2012

Have you ever been called out on your weight loss or gain?

When I was training for my first marathon I was running a gazillion miles a week and could not keep the weight on. I was working at the time and was called into the big bosses office and asked if I had an eating disorder since I looked so thin and sick. One of the most awkward conversations I have ever had in my entire life since the big boss was a man about 60 years old and had said about 10 words to me prior. I totally felt like my dad was lecturing me. I lived across the street from a great coffee shop at the time and would get a large latte, full fat, and giant muffin every morning and would eat it at my desk that said boss walked by every morning.

I don't think I looked sick, but I definitely looked too thin!

Arnegard · January 2012

No one ever confronted me. Maybe a friend jokingly told me to come have a beer and grab a pizza. I was 145 before my wedding and was a 6/8. When I started to gain weight (from not working out like a maniac), then people told me I looked too thin.

MJCF · January 2012

My stepmom just made a few comments after I had DS about how much weight I was losing esp after I started staying home with him. Not rude comments, more concerned, so I had to just remind her I was still breastfeeding and not eating out as much.

MrsBalletStar05 · January 2012

Yup. When I went back to work after #2. I was only gone 4.5 weeks and had lost most of the weight when I returned. I was totally a healthy/normal weight, but people freaked at me and I got told to "not overdo it" :-P by a few.

maplehearts · January 2012

When I started to lose my pre-teen chubby stage weight my swim coach commented on it. He had his wife who had an eating disorder talk to me. I went from 150 to about 110 over a year. Not exactly unhealthy. Plus I was swimming for almost 4 hours a day. I had a grey dress that I wore and my brothers joked it was my concentration camp dress. My parents never said anything so I guess they knew there was nothing to worry about.

Deblondie1 · January 2012

Yup. Last year after I had an early m/c I lost 15 lbs from stress and working out too much. I was confronted by multiple co workers regarding having an eating disorder. It pissed me off because I was 125 lbs and am 5'3", not really a stretch. That had been normal for me until I joined the military. To be honest I would love to get back down to 125 lbs. But I'm not willing to workout like I was then.

I think if people really know you, then they aren't concerned. It's the rest that I would like to smack in the head and tell them to mind their own. I think I'm more angry about it because the confrontations weren't coming from a place of concern but from the need to gossip.

Dr.Loretta · January 2012

Several times. I have always been on the thin side, and people have over the years said something to me about being "too thin". I put on some weight in my 30s and someone who knew me in my 20s said I looked much better. I started a new job at my heaviest weight, and people commented on how I was "too thin" after I lost 15 lb. I told them they should have seen me in HS!

lucylea · January 2012

My mom has actually called me out from both perspectives at some point in my life. In high school my mom and the guidance counselor sat me down to talk about my eating since they thought I was too thin. I was actually at a healthy weight and working out 2-3 hours per night between taking and teaching dance and tumbling classes.

About ten months after having DD my mom started joking around about "9 months to put it on, 9 to take it off" and how it had been over that since DD was born. I was one of the unlucky ones who couldn't lose the last 10 pounds while nursing so I was carrying around some extra, but it wasn't like I was obese! That one hurt WAY worse.

MamatoA2010 · January 2012

Yep, I've been called out two on both sides of the coin. About 10 years ago I was running 10K races and lifting weights 2 hours a day several times a week. I'm 5'3 and weighed 90 lbs. Very unhealthy. Fast forward to 10 years later when I got pregnant- I weighed 145 when I got pregnant with DD and when I delivered I weighed 205. Ick!

Yikes! Currently I'm sitting at 180. Way too high for my small frame.

ToBeMrsT · January 2012

I've never been underweight, but over the past 5ish months I've lost around 12 pounds and I've had so many people comment on it. They all say I look really good and that I'm really thin. It's nice, but it's also a little weird to hear it so much. I've been working really hard to take better care of myself by losing weight, eating right, dressing nicer, taking better care of my skin.

goldenleaves · January 2012

My sister and I moved out and got an apartment when we were 19. We both stayed home for college. Well, we couldn't really afford rent, utilities, car payments and food. I dropped to like 105 and had a stranger as if I was ill! It was horrible. We also couldn't afford a nice/safe place so our parents pretty much forces us to move back home when our neighbor was robbed at gunpoint. I was trying to assert my independence and did it very stupidly! A normal weight for my build is around 120-125 which puts me comfortably in a size 4. I still look at pictures and can't believe I let myself get that thin!

NKR717 · January 2012

Yes constantly since having DD. I am definitely underweight, and I am definitely trying to gain weight. Some people don't understand it can be as hard to gain weight as it can to lose it. I have been on both ends. I weighed 150lbs in college (5'1) and I weigh just over 100 right now. It really sucks. I am just so active in my life right now and after losing the weight in college, I just can't seem to figure out how I ate as much as I did, as often as I did. I am having a hard time gaining weight as healthy as possible, and to be quite frank I am tired of the comments/questions from family, friends, and even a co-worker. Whenever I try to explain about BF DD, and being so active, and just in general eating very healthy and trying to gain weight to defend myself, I get the "I wish I had that problem." No, you really don't, actually, uggh.

Arnegard · January 2012

CnAmom:
I had to eat lunch with the counselor in her office every day for a month so she could make sure I was eating.

I was acused in college of being bulemic by a trainer. I ate a shitton back in those days and weighed 160-165 but played softball/practiced/ran/lifted for about 4 hours a day.

rach10782 · January 2012

I have always been petite but in high school I was very active. I am 5'3 and was between 93-95 pounds at the time. I was at the doctor with my mom when I was 18/19 years old. She asked me to the leave the room so she could discuss my eating disorder with my mom alone. My mother basically told her to shove it and walked out. 1)I never had an eating disorder 2) it was inappropriate to ask me to leave the room after I was 18 to discuss ME.

Hope2Have · January 2012

I'm the queen of weight loss talk.. I used to weigh 310 and people made rude comments from time to time.. mostly my FIL (not meaning to, just stupid) such as, we had a treadmill stored in his garage and he said "you need to come get that walking machine, you need it way more than we do"... without thinking anything of it. He was right, but still.

When I joined WW and lost 155 over 18 months I was the talk of our small town, especially since I did it "naturally". At work, at the WW meeting, at church everyone wanted to know how much I had lost that week, how I did it etc. I loved the attention... to pieces. Not to sound vain, but to get positive attention was nice and to see people be truly happy for me and my success was just well, nice.

I had lost 80 pounds once when I was a teenager, only to gain it back with interest over the years, and I had one lady that worked at Taco Bell ask me after getting to my goal weight after losing 155 pounds "so, how'd you do it this time and just the way she said it took me back... she made it very obvious that she knew I had lost and gained it back once before. That was the only rude comment that I had after getting to goal.

I still have people ask me about WW and I feel like such a fraud b/c I look so bad right now.... but not for long. )

ENI36 · January 2012

Yup, but I did have an eating disorder

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luvmyducks · January 2012

No. But I can't believe your boss had that conversation with you. In my most recent job, that would never fly. HR would be involved in a second.

chocoholicchick · January 2012

In college, I was called out for being too thin by my mom. I was surprised since most of my life, all I ever heard was that I was too big. Besides that point, I've always been called out for being big by my family members. Somehow, I tune them out.

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