I've had people that seemed to want me to fail before. It's sort of a result of them that I no longer tell people I know my goals (my wife doesn't even know my final goal for weight, not that she'd have a problem with it). I went home for a family reunion a month or so ago after having lost 30 pounds. Some people made a big deal about how I lost some weight and I'd planned on blowing it off as having not felt well (they thought it was more like 10-15 pounds so a bit of stomach flu might have explained it), but the wife told them how much it had been really and that I'd been working on it. I know she was just proud, but I've had people pestering me about how I did it (as if there was a magic trick) and others making comments that aren't too encouraging (and some doing both) ever since. I also didn't want to make a big deal because my wife and I both started at the same time, but I've been more successful, and I didn't want her to get down about it.