By Anonymous - 29/02/2016 22:56 - United States - San Bruno

Today, I hung out with some old friends for the first time since losing about 50 pounds, going from clinically obese to a healthy weight. I even bought a cute new dress for the occasion to show off my new body. No one noticed the change. FML
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lchollett 22

Who cares? You did it for yourself, and as long as you feel happy, that's really all that matters.

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kevinfmls 12

Don't be so down. Maybe they forgot? I'm not helping, but congrats on the weight loss!!

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fuckpotato 12

Honestly, depending on how much you weighed, 50 lbs may or may not do anything significant. I know people that are obese and have dropped around 50 lbs and I couldn't tell a difference because they are still too large. Too bad you can't put a before and after picture to go along with your FML. Bring on the down votes! I want to be in down vote hell.

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Algorithm 24

OP says they made it to "a healthy weight". They're not still obese. FMLs are so short; how do you manage to skip over this kind of detail?

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ziggy452 6

What is a "healthy weight" you dont know how big she was before so 50 pounds less could not be noticed

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Algorithm 24

Healthy weight, by definition, is normal BMI. Overweight, underweight, obese, and morbidly underweight are not healthy.

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whassallt26 13

Shows that they remember your personality over your weight

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janfleury 19

Congratulations on the weight loss. I would take this in a good way. They like you for you not how you look.

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JudgeComrade 17

Old friends are like old weight - it's hard, but you gotta get rid of them.

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ftloosenfanzfree 7

Highly possible they just didn't say anything. I've always thought it was weird that people say things like "wow, you look like you've lost weight, congratulations!" For one thing that is such a backhanded compliment because it's so insulting to the past-you that weighed more. And for another thing you don't always know WHY someone has lost weight. What if someone drops a lot of weight because they've been sick in the hospital? Or what if they have an eating disorder? I think the only appropriate time to comment on someone's weight loss is if they bring it up. If you specifically brought it up and they said "Oh, we couldn't tell the difference" then that could be disheartening. But if no one brought it up, then they were probably just not wanting to be risk sounding rude.

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Bigbiggums69 8

Maybe they were jealous, so didn't mention it to make themselves feel better?

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GhotiMobius 1

50 pound difference between being obese, and being a health weight. What are you, a midget or something? Were you weighing in at 100 pounds, but got down to 50 because you're like 3 feet tall? That's the only way that this makes sense. Trololololol

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smoothies14 32

That's not true at all. At 5'4" you can drop from obese to a normal weight with just 30 lbs.

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Algorithm 24

I'm surprised at how uneducated a lot of people are in this comment section about BMI ranges and weight loss.

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Xamry14 10

A lot of the time people do notice stuff like that but don't know how to bring it up because, well, then that would imply they thought you were fat before which can be insulting to some.

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danman27 15

They probably did, but didn't want to say. Some people might take offense to "you used to be fat"

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