I think it hurts all the more now when it happens because it undermines all the fabulous work you have done over the past months. You've lost 31 pounds! Holy heck...that is wonderful. I wish myself such success. It must feel great too and then to have some idiot pinhead deflate you by making it seem that nothing has been achieved is just too much for a sensitive emerging self esteem to bear.

Hey next time someone tells you that, smile sweetly and tell them to go pound sand.