Overweight people.....

[FireDancer]

People get congratulated for reaching goals by their friends. Whether that goal is losing weight, graduating college, finishing a marathon, getting married, or whatever you congratulate them because as their friend you are showing support. I think people congratulate strangers on accomplishments partly out of politeness, sure, but what is wrong with being polite.

Of course it doesn't hurt if whomever the person is looks better now because they lost weight.

Perhaps you are over-thinking this a bit OP.

 

[minkydog]

I let myself get out of control and was up to 420 pounds. My doctoer made a difficult decision for me. She made me call a a weight-loss surgeon and set up an appointment. It has changed my life and I have in the last year lost a total of 160 pounds (still losing). I thought that would end the constant ridicule I received because of my body size. But now I get people telling me I took the easy way out with my surgery. That really bothers me when I hear it because it has been a rough struggle for me both physically and mentally to change habits and exercise. I have just concluded that people will always comment on me and I just let it slide because I know I am in a better place

Way to go! Who cares how the weight came off? Anyone who knows anything about weight loss surgery knows that it's NOT the "easy way out." I wish my sister's doctor would be as assertive as yours. She's over 350-lbs and has some serious health issues. At this point, she is just resigned to it. She could lose 100-lbs and she'd *still* be morbidly obese so she just says the heck with it.