People have been asking me my whole adult life if I have lost weight. I am the same weight I was when I got married. I am not over weight and think I am just right. The only thing I can figure is I am either losing fat and gaining muscle with all my activities or certain clothes just make me look smaller.
It isn’t a bad comment but most people say it with so much enthusiasm that it is hard not to take it as a criticism since they seem to think I should glad.
Oh well. I have always been too sensitive. It is a problem but I think all that sensitivity contributes to the success of my artwork. Cheers!
Kendall Kessler Art 
Yeah–I think most people mean that question as a compliment when they ask it.
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I agree. I should not let it bother me.
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Well, but I do get the frustration of having people make the same (false) observation over and over again! It may be well-meaning, but sometimes it’s just too much.
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I know what you mean. I keep thinking they thought I was fat or they wouldn’t be so enthusiastic when they ask if I have lost weight. I just keep telling myself it is a compliment.
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Hahaha! Now I get it. Maybe they think THEY’RE fat and they’re jealous–or trying to give the best compliment they can imagine. 😉
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Who knows? I just smile and say no I haven’t lost any weight. I want to say I don’t think I need to but I’ll bet that would offend people.
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Probably not. They’d probably be impressed that you weren’t worried about such things. Most people are. But . . . you probably are taking the right approach.
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This happens to me and I think somehow people remember me as bigger than I am though I don’t know why on earth that should be! It doesn’t happen so much these days as I lost a lot of weight after breaking my hip a couple of years ago and have not gone back to my usual size. I’m waiting for the reverse question daily!
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So sorry to hear about your hip! How awful! Hope you didn’t lose too much!
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I lost enough to have the figure I’d always longed for but that didn’t make the doctors very happy so I had to put on a bit before they’d stop nagging! (The worst bit was the dislocation of of the new femur a few weeks later – horrendous!)
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How awful that you dislocated a femur! Glad you have the figure you wanted with a little extra. You don’t want to get too thin!
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