I love compliments but anyone else find it tiring to constantly talk about yourself, how different you look, what are you doing to lose the weight blah blah blah. I’m not ungrateful, just not one to talk about myself all the time.
I also need to remember that I am a hair stylist and probably see more people in a day than most.
For me, not talking about it has become ingrained.
Sorry you’re in a biz where it’s hard to get away from it.
Mr Skinny! 
You lost 30 pounds since the 3rd week of August. That’s very noticable. And if you’re continuing to embrace low carb and want to lose more, you will, so there’ll be more talk haha
I lost 75 pounds in 8 months, people are regularly aghast!
“Have you lost weight?”
“I think so.”
“How did you do it?”
“Ah, that’s my secret. But it’s very kind of you to notice.”
Then smile and change the subject. Have a change of subject ready. News, weather, sports, or whatever your clients usually like to talk about.
Really, no matter how you lose weight, people will have lots to say about it, mostly bad–unless maybe you lost it through illness, which IS bad, but it shuts people up.
I have the opposite problem. No one asks me. Like. No one. Not that I want to go on about myself, I don’t. What I do want to do is tell people about keto. There are so many people I see at my kids school, the gym, that I see struggle with weight and possible health problems they have, or will have, because of it, and I just want to tell them about keto so perhaps they will try it. But no one ever asks so I don’t give them any unsolicited advice.
I felt the same way in the beginning. People would ask and I would tell them all about it. I too see people at the gym and I’m daily life that would benefit. I have just reached a point in this that I just want to be me and not the person who is doing amazing lol.
I’m sorry people aren’t engaging with you. What do you do for work?
“Iron will and unswerving dedication to my goals. Same way you succeed at anything. Why do you ask?” 
I struggle with the mentality of some people and their ignorance towards health. Many people ask me what I have been doing but as soon as I tell them they tell me how unhealthy I am being, and then it’s an argument against educating them in the differences between fasting and starvation and it just SO tiring. I’ve given up. I don’t talk about my diet often anymore unless I know they are open minded and willing to accept a different opinion.
Tell them you’re on the raw meat diet and you have three different species of parasites!
@Scherdiva I usually turn the conversation around to the health benefits, and try to talk more about that.
The thing that gets me frustrated is when you go over the healthy aspects, and people seem really interested, and then later you realize they haven’t researched or even tried it.
IDK, maybe I planted a seed, but it really feels like I’m just wasting my breath. Maybe that’s why I like being on the forum so much, because everyone here gets it. It’s so refreshing compared to all the carb ignorance we face daily.
A few months ago on an utterly unrelated forum I saw a post from someone mentioning following a keto diet to avoid a second heart attack. He linked to one of the various doctors’ youtube vids discussing the science and I followed that link and many more, and decided after about a week of research to give it a try.
So here I am, 7 weeks later, 25 - 30 pounds lighter, exercising again, eating healthier choices than I have in ages, feeling motivated and empowered in ways I have not in a decade.
Sometimes the seeds land on fertile ground and take root.
I am getting: “Oh, are you okay?” type pseudo-concerned remarks. I explain I needed to get my high triglycerides down, and that at my recent lipid panel, they were down, and the doctor said to keep doing what I am doing. And that is the truth. They usually shut up at that point. No one can handle the details.
Turn it back on them. “You’re eating how many carbs a day? How’s your blood pressure? Still short of breath? Refilled your meds lately?”
I could go on. I just get mean at this point. 
Yes, yes and yes! People don’t really want to know that I’ve been at this lifestyle for 2yrs and it’s not a quick fix that happens overnight.
The remark that irks me the most is “So you’re at goal, why do you still eat like that? When are you going to start eating ‘normal’ again?”
Um… I do eat normal, it’s you that eats weird!!!
Society’s perceptions are skewed. I am 5’4", with a small frame, and at 114 pounds, fit nicely into the 1950’s life insurance tables’ ideal weight. Yet at 150, doctors thought I was “healthy.” My FBG since menopause has been in the high 90’s. Last week, 89. 
When I was 18, at 105 pounds, my high school latin teacher wanted to give me her wedding gown. There was no way I could fit into it - I asked her: “What was your waist size at 22, in 1945?”
I’ve basically been living under a rock for decades, and even I found out about keto. Everybody has heard of it, and can research it and try it if they want. The information is out there. So I don’t feel obligated to evangelize for keto–at least not in person. The remarks just take too much out of me.
If you tell people anything about your life, they think you’re inviting conversation, and then they spout something they read in a magazine. I don’t need to hear it, so I’d rather not open that door.
Mentioning keto online (e.g., in an unrelated forum) is a different story; the attacks don’t feel so personal.
I just tell them it’s extremely easy, all they have to do is cut out carbs. Their choice, do it or don’t.
I’m running about 70-30 (wild guess as to actual percentages) for people wanting to know more, and people who are terrified and shut up. It’s win-win.
This is exactly how I feel John. I love telling people about Keto - most ask what I’m doing, and some I just offer it if it is an appropriate segue.
Knowledge is POWER.
#ketoforlife
I have lost a bit over 50 pounds and people are constantly talking to me about it. It is weird because I don’t like attention. I am a teacher at a small high school and my fellow employees have been so encouraging! Not a day goes by without a “looking good” or “way to go.” I also haven’t encountered any people against Keto. Maybe I am just lucky. Anyhow, I have another 50 to go. So I guess I better get used to people being kind. :-)