I'll tell you guys mine, which still to this day makes me giggle.

I saw a friend that I hadn't seen in about a month and apparently my weight loss had made a significant difference for him.

He saw me, looked me up and down and said "WOW, you've lost a lot of weight, but don't lose too much now, or you'll look like a celebrity booblehead!"

I looked confused and asked him what he meant, and said: "You know, celebrities are so tiny it makes their head look huge! Have you ever seen one in person?"

It made me laugh, but it made me feel good. He thinks I'm "tiny" :P

So, I'm curious, what have you guys heard so far?

Haha, that's awesome! I totally know what he's talking about, though. Certain celebrities look a tad out of proportion.

I got "Your eyes are marvelous, like an alien"
or "Wow, you look like some sort of woodland elf in that picture, pretty!"
Hahahaha.

So I guess I'm an alien elf?

I worked at a place that hosted a lot of youth sports so I became acquainted with many of the parents. One of the dads that I hadn't seen in a few months came up to our counter and his eyes got wide and he yelled, "OMG CAROL! GET OVER HERE! YA GOTTA SEE THIS! YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT, JEN LOST LIKE 100LBS!"

And then everyone in the lobby stopped and stared. It would have been mortifying, but his tone was kinda of hilarious.

Hehe, I've gotten eye ones too...One time in college I was sitting in Japanese class and one of my ex's friends turned around and started staring at me. Like, full-on STARING. I asked if I could help him with something to break the awkward and he replied with "Your eyes. They're piercing. I can't look away," and proceeded to not look away until the professor noticed my uncomfortable face and threw chalk at his head to tell him to turn the f*** around and pay attention. Awesome professors in classes of 20 or less are the best...

@ Junebug oh god I would've tried to melt myself into the floor in your shoes!

@Hotaruchan maybe he was hitting on you! Haha.


I used to work till in a little grocery on the corner of my street, we were open late and often got strange types come in for this or that. But one strange encounter sticks out in my mind:

It was just before 11pm and this guy came up to the till with his stuff, and he kept staring at me, I tried to ignore it as I bagged his stuff. He finally said "you have very unusual eyes, the color is mesmerizing." I said thank you and kept bagging, but he didn't leave it there. He continued: "I saw a painting in a small gallery in Romania of a woman's eyes just like yours - it was called The Eyes of Compassion. It moved me...I never thought I'd see eyes like that again" thankfully his debit card charge had been approved and I could send him on his way.

I asked my fiancé to come pick me up after my shift that night, I was afraid my art-loving customer would turn out to be some eye-collecting serial killer who'd cut my eyes out and keep them in a jar labelled compassion or something.

I ran into someone I hadn't seen since losing a lot of weight. She said she only recognized me by my voice.

OMG you guys!! These are amazing!! and congrats on everyone's success!!!

I haven't got any really funny comments, but then I haven't lost a lot yet. But I'm really enjoying reading everyone's stories.

I do remember one time though, I went into where I used to work and my old boss said to me "You got the skinny going on". He is Italian so wouldn't have prefect English but I suppose he didn't mean for it to sound as hilarious as it did. I must have lost weight from the time I finished there and then.

lol!!! that's so cute!!

i don't have any weight-loss related ones... but in japan, you often get really funny/weird compliments. standards of beauty are just so different that some of the stuff they tell you is just really really odd for us. here are some:

"your face is so small"
"i wish i had a small face like you"
"you have such a high nose"
"you have a glamorous nose"

these are really funny the first time you hear them... after a while it gets really old though. see, in japanese culture, having a "small" face is considered beautiful, because most girls have quite wide and round faces, and things that are a little different are usually considered beautiful since most people look the same. the "high nose" is the same thing. Japanese people usually have kinda flat noses, with no bridges. for us, it's really weird to compliment someone's nose, but over here it's like OMG. lol.

anyways, another weird compliment that i've had in the past was that i looked like a doll.

Yeah...Japanese compliments are weird.

I'll never quite get over the fact that people feel the need to compliment the fold in my eyelid and sigh dreamily over my pretty bland natural brown hair color...also, apparently my eyelashes look fake. People have asked where I "bought" them several times >.<

I haven't gotten anything about my nose yet, but it's very rare to meet a group of people and not have at least one of them comment on the size and color of my eyes...A bunch of my kids have asked what I did to make them green because they want green eyes too. I've tried explaining that it doesn't quite work that way, but they can't wrap their heads around the fact that people are born with different eye colors since the vast majority of theirs are the same.

The fake eyelashes reminds me of something actually. This has nothing to do with weight loss comments but my hair has always been extremely long and people would always comment on the condition and thickness of it as well as asking me where did I buy it!!! I got some cut off back in April time but before this I would get at least two people, sometimes three a week asking me where I bought my hair extensions! They would be stunned when I tell them it is real! And that I didn't buy it, grew it myself!

Sorry to go off topic there.

I was walking to work yesterday and was waiting to cross the street at a light....a gentleman in a convertible pulled up and asked me if I'd marry him for 75 thousand dollars.

I'll take that as a compliment, I guess? lol

I had someone ask me if I was wearing false teeth, I wasn't.

Mine ...

Man on Street: "Ohhhh girl. Look at that beautiful skin. What color is that skin?"

Me: "Um.... brown?"

Man on Street: "Oh girl, that ain't no ordinary brown. You got beautiful ... PAPER SACK brown skin!"

Me: "@#*@(#*(#! What?!"