It's a predictable refrain every time I go to a public gathering with my mom: "Wow, your mom looks so amazing and healthy! She's so thin!"
My mom has dementia.
She is thin because her brain is slowly killing her body.
She is wasting away.
She is not healthy, but in a society that conflates thin with health and health with virtue, a woman who is dying can expect compliments on the very thing that is killing her.
Please stop complimenting people on weight loss. Please stop assuming everyone you see wants to lose weight.