Keep being told "you didn't need to lose weight" by people a lot taller than me [F/4'11-150cm].

I guess I just need to vent about something that's been happening quite frequently since I lost weight.

So to begin with, I haven't lost as much weight as some people here and you guys are incredible for doing it. It's what motivated me to push myself to do CICO, eat healthier and exercise regularly to meet my goal. I'm not here to brag, just stating facts. I'm quite small (150cm/4'11) and lost about 6kg/13lbs, so I'm at my goal weight of approx 50kg/110lb.

People noticed I've lost weigh and ask me how much I weight now and when I tell them 50kg, they look at me like I'm insane and ask how much I was before? I tell them around 56kg/125lbs and the snarky comments begin.

"why would you lose weight then?", "you didn't need to lose weight, you were already lighter than me now", "if I was your weight I would feel great", "I weight about 70kg/155lbs so you were fine". Yeah. But you're also like 25cm taller than me (5'7 and more) so how can you compare? My BMI was 24.9, I was actually on the line between healthy and overweight.

I'm sick of being shamed for it when I actually just lost a few kg to feel better in my body, and now I feel like I can't enjoy it because of these constant remarks (they come from friends and family). And now I have to deal with all the comments when I don' t finish my plate anymore (cause I'm full faster and I know how to control myself) or choose something else than a kebab or burger.

Why can't people see the physical difference between my body type/height and theirs? Is it so hard to understand that someone half your size will eat less and weight less (even when my BMI was close to overweight I was still lighter than people who are 175cm)? These people are also all healthy, none of them are overweight to begin with so I feel like they shouldn't be bitter about me losing weight.

I can't be the only small woman on the planet that had to deal with this. I guess I just needed to vent. (sorry for any mistakes, English isn't my first language :) )

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