6 “You look better when you’re heavier.” Or “I like a woman with lots of meat on her bones.”
This kind of undermining usually comes from the man in your life, who feels threatened that your weight loss efforts leave him out—or that you will look so great afterwards that you will make him jealous, says Dr. Shah.
Best response: Try to make it a win-win for him, says Largeman-Roth: “I feel better at my goal weight; then we can do more fun things together!”
