Do you feel odd telling people how much you have lost?

Not sure why, but I have no problem telling anyone that will listen that my highest weight was 400 lbs. and I am now at 205ish.  My weight loss has slowed down so much of course and I am struggling to get to goal (which I set for myself at 175).  I would just like to be under the 200 mark at some point in the next couple of weeks. 

But no, I don't feel odd about it at all.  I am a pretty outgoing person and like to talk about myself... :)

I would have rather died than tell someone I was 400 lbs when I actually was 400 lbs.  I guess I started feeling comfortable with it when I was around the 250 mark.  My husband made the comment to me that I looked "normal".  He didn't mean anything negative by it at all - but explained that I looked like someone who just had maybe gained some weight but not someone who had been morbidly obese most of her life.  That just kind of stuck in my head. 

Hi Brenda,

I get that question all the time & I HATE it - especially when it's someone weighing all of 110 lbs asking - I don't feel comfortable saying "I lost you & your little dog too!!" (though maybe I will throw that in there in a witch voice if they persist!! lmao  What I do say is 'a couple of dogs & a cat' or a LOT, or not enough yet - it usually shuts 'em up and if it doesn't I say that I never really kept track...  what I'm really thinking is 'if it were your business, you would already know!!'  lol  This has worked for me pretty well so far  :)

  I started losing weight when I weighed 622.  At the time of surgery i was 585. I have no problem telling people that I have had surgery, but I don't like telling people how much I have lost. Only a few peope in My family know what I weighed pre op. Some know what I weigh now but not all. I have a scale that will read up to 550 pounds but I also have problems with My feet. I also have edema, so when I weigh im never sure how much I do weigh because the voice on the scale doen't say and the read out kinda jumps around between weight. What I do is have My father watch the read out and see what number the scale pauses on the most. Checking that number with My surgeon's scales seems more or less accurate. Today I weighed, and it was 450. I feel better but I have a long way to go.

Same with me.  I am 6' tall, and no one believed I weighed that much.  When I think about it, it's overwhelming.  I have lost 240 lbs!!!!!  Crazy!   That means I lost 62%, almost 2/3 of my starting weight.  I am almost 1/3 the woman I used to be.  When my family asks me, and I tell them, they are like '"no way."  I have recently experienced a secondary dramatic weight loss, over 100 lbs since Dec.  When they ask what size I am, and I say usually 10, occasionally 12 depending on brand and style, they think I am more like a 6.  It just feels so unreal, still, and I am almost 6 years out.

You are doing great!  All the best to you!

Carrie

I am only 6 wks out but get this Q all the time from my co-workers. My nutritionist goes by % of excess weight. So I just tell people I've lost 18% of my excess weight. They then look at me confused so I give them an example that if I had 100 lbs to lose then that means I lost 18 lbs. This has happened several times since it is a large co. This has always stopped their curiosity. Maybe one day I will be comfortable sharing but right now I'm not. I have a long way to go with a starting BMI of 58.

Yep!  Still find it strange...but I remember someone telling me, "you must have lost about 20 lbs now?"  and I replied well close, it's 100 lbs.... they looked at me like I was from another planet and I thought dang was I that fat that they didnt notice.  Sometimes I think it's even stranger that people actually ask you, how much do you weigh now???  And I think, that's rude!  LOL  Even today, I am still about 20lbs from my goal, but people now say you're not losing anymore are you?  or you're done right?   

I feel THAT comment!  I had to answer the "how much have you lost" question frequently, as I had to go to a family funeral & folks who do not see me but a few times a year were a bit overwhelmed.  I decided to just say, "I have lost one third of my excess weight," and left it at that.  I did get a little flustered once, the suit I wore fit great on the bottom half, but I was slightly swimming in the top half, "Well you should be proud, that is what happens when you lose weight.."  I was complaining more to the fact my bustline was lost, and out of porportion of the lower half -- there was no time to alter the top half.

Brenda : )~

 LOL!  I think people usually mean well, but aren't eloquent with words.  I end up just chalking it up to a compliment...if we don't we can get really annoyed.  ;)  Congrats on your loss!!  :D

Hi Brenda, you know this is kinda strange but I don't really care that people know where I started as long as I'm traveling down the scale.  The only time, so far that I have felt uncomfortable is when I told a family member that I don't see very often that I had the surgery.  All she said was, "that's good because you looked really bad last time I saw you"  After something like that from my sister who is supposed to love me no matter what, I can take anything from a stranger.  Oh and she said she hopes I don't fail with it like her daughters have.  (they have both regained after rny).

You are doing so well,  try to not dwell on things that are only a fleeting thought to the ones asking the questions.         Lori  :0)
 

Oddly, I didn't have a problem telling people until I passed the -150 pound mark.  That's when I realized that, if people could even estimate my current weight and then add the pounds lost, they would know I was over 300 pounds when I started... and I did not want to admit that to everyone.  Fortunately, about that time I had also lost an amount equal to what I weighed, so for a while I would say I had lost the other half of myself.  Now I just tell people that I lost another entire obese person.

Lora.