I can't remember that anyone commented about my weight more than my mother. A few of her recent comments:
"Your belly is so huge it seems to hang out of your body like it has a life of its own".
I told her once that I hated a certain kind of food and her response was "It would be a lot better for you if you hated all kinds of food".
Its kind of dissapointed to think that the person who should be supporting you and making you feel better is the person who's actually saying these things to you. However, she tries to bring me down in all aspects of life: work, relationships etc so I wasn't surprised when she started picking on my weight. :(

When I was about 14 I had to have an ultrasound, and had to fast for about 12 hours beforehand. I told my singing teacher and she said "It's good you'll fast, maybe you'll lose some weight." Unbelievable.

Thanks! You know, yours isn't so rough on the eyes. Hmmm.....Dave... I also see you are in Nashville. I am about an hour south of you. Hot, huh? It's like check on the elderly and pets hot here.

Congrats on your weight loss success. Any words of wisdom for a newbie?

And, yes, uniform time each year ALWAYS sucked.
~Cheers.

definitely got the pregnant questions before. usually I don't have the heart to tell them I'm not and make up a pretend due date. ha.
stuff yelled from cars is always no fun. big limo full of drunken high school students (no doubt) once started yelling at me as they drove by (this was at my heaviest, 250)...not what I wanted to hear after my long, tiring, shift.
the one from childhood that sticks with me was when I was nine years old. I had gone to summer camp and this boy and his friend decided to make my life miserable. Every time I came near them they started singing that "are ya achin' for some bacon?" song from the Lion King. So embarrassing.

ive had a ton of things said to me ever since i was 11 years old by kids at school. I was thin up until age 11.. then i thinned out a bit in my early teens.. then i gained it all back.

i guess one of the worst things ever said to me was.. me, my friends and a friend of my friends (a male) were driving, and he saw a sign that said "weight limit 2 tons" (or something to that effect) and he made a joke saying i'd have to get out of the car. I could not BELIEVE the audacity. My friends were even shocked. I was so angry.. and very hurt. I didn't care what he thought but just to have someone be so rude like that..

Also another time, when I was 11, i remember having to go to the nurses office to get weighed. Well the woman left the door open and she announced how i was "91 lbs!". Don't you know this little jerky kid from my class was outside and heard it. He ran around telling everyone, and he and everyone started making fun of me. I felt so worthless.

OH and recently I was at a concert. My friends and I got front row (it was standing room only) and we were crunched up against a ton of people. Anyway there were these ******* drunk girls behind us who were angry because we were up front. They were whining and yelling the whole show but I ignored them (**** we waited in like for 3hrs just to get those spots on the floor) Anyway I heard one chick behind me go "OMG WE HAVE BUBBLE BUTT INFRONT OF US HAHAHAHA" i pretended not to hear it and just made sure to block them from getting infront of me with that "BUBBLE BUTT" lol. Some people are just *******s. But in the end we won and they had to stand behind us the whole show :D

Also reading some of these stories just.. wow.. I'm amazed at how shallow some people really are! Its also very sad to read the stories about mothers/fathers putting their children down like that. I can't even imagine how ****ty i'd feel if my mother ever said something so hurtful to me. I know that she never would. Now, my dad and I joke about weight (he is a big man) but its all in fun and isn't hurtful, we have that kind of relationship. But if he ever said anything in a nasty way I just don't know if I could deal with it.

But going back to shallow people it reminds me of an aquaintence of my boyfriend's. This guy.. is a slimebag. He treats women as objects and.. they allow him too. He's very charismatic, or so I hear. There is this one girl that he dated, she dyed her hair black and lost a ton of weight just so he'd like her more (she looks so thin its scary now, sunken cheeks etc.) and then he slept around on her etc etc. He also said that he thinks ANY girl over a size 0-1 is FAT. Can you believe that? He's just digusting. But again, these women fall for and go ga-ga.. I really don't understand. He isn't good looking IMO, and he also wouldn't hesistate to tell the girl he's with that she's fat. And yet these girl(s) stay with him? Nevermind the cheating too but.. how can you allow yourself to be put down so much like that??

Hate to say I thought of more. . . .

In high school we got weighed in for the year for gym and it was done nice and private as it should. However this one skinny girl kept asking me how much I weighed. Over and over she told me "I'm your friend Cristy and I won't tell anyone" Hmmm. . . I don't like my doctor to know my weight then alone some skank!

In gym we used to have to sit on these scooters and play a modified version of volleyball w/them. Well lucky me I got the scooter w/the crack in it. EVERYONE knew this scooter had been broken ALL year but when I got it the rumor was that I was so fat I broke it.

I mentioned this in another thread but we had to run the mile in school. We had to do it in 9 min and I knew I couldn't run it and asked my gym teacher if I could walk it instead to save from humiliation but she wouldn't go for it. So there I am trying my best which was 15 min (not bad IMO) so of course I heard rude comments but what I thought was funny was the 2nd worst runner was a very thin girl who only finished 1 min faster than me but NOTHING was said to her! Don't get me wrong I DIDNT want anyone to make fun of her she was a nice girl but it was OK to make fun of me the fat girl!:dizzy:

:lol: I was down there for a couple of months for an internship, which has concluded so I'm back in Colorado now. I miss it terribly! I'll take the heat, just let me back;)!

Seven months after I had my second baby, I was wearing a baby doll type dress. A woman said how great I looked then pointed to my belly and said "I see you're expecting another, when are you due?" I was devastated! I started working out the next day (lol) AND I got back to my pre-pregnancy weight.

Glad to know I'm not the only one being asked if I'm pregnant. I have a bad lower back (2 bulging, 1 protruding) discs, to begin with, so I have poor posture. Plus, most of my weight is carried in my stomach...so I look pregnant. I see it myself.

My mother has been in the hospital for 3 months, as I've mentioned in other posts, and I went to visit her and she said "Mare, if you're pregnant, just tell me. I know I'm sick and you don't want to worry me, but it'll be ok."

I was crushed. I've gotten the random "Are you pregnant?" at the bowling alley, but for my own mother to think that not only was I pregnant, but that I wouldn't tell her...That was my breaking point.

The "friend" of my boyfriends (well i wouldnt say he's a friend since my bf doesn't care for him that much..) never actually called ME fat to my face because I'm sure he knows my bf would kick his ***. But, i heard from my bf that thsi guy would actually tell the girl he's with that she's getting fat etc! I'm VERY thankful my bf is an amazing person. He isn't fat at all IMO but.. he thinks he is. We've tried dieting together, eating out less together, and trying to exercise more together. I find when we're both ON the wagon its so much easier to be motivated. Of course when we fall off the wagon.. we usually fall together and that can be bad too.

But yeah I cant stand that mentality that "oh you choose to be fat and its not ok!". Granted, I've made poor eating choices and I do know that was my own fault. But, to say its NOT OK to fat or overweight is terrible. And you know there are some people that are happy being bigger, and I think thats fantastic!! I wish I could be happy where I am (then I'd never have to exercise again!! :carrot:) And treating people who don't fit into that 'perfect' weight like crap is just.. unbelievable. I guess its just society. If you aren't size 0-8 you're "fat". Its just a disgusting trend, and girls are developing eating disorders as young as 9 years old. How sick is that?? All because they feel they need to be "thin". These are little girls!! Come on!! Ugh.. I hate society.

But anyway..I know that I feel bad about my weight, not because of what people tell me but.. because I DO compare myself to others. Its a terrible thing to do because my boyfriend's brother's fiance (got all that?) is a tiny little thing.. shes maybe 5'7", i think shes 115-120..? I know shes a size 6.. thats for sure. So when I stand next to her I look like a cow. But would you also believe she thinks she is fat?? If she gets any thinner she's going to blow away LOL.

But that sort of snaps me back into reality that i WANT to look good in the summer, in a bikini (cause she wears one when we all go on vacation). I guess I have to keep striving and really start exercising again.. I just hate it so much!

Reading these posts has got me thinking... I think worst than what anybody has said to me is how I was treated. In high school I was in love with my best friend. He was great to hang out with, we had fun & we were very attracted to each other... as long as nobody was looking. When we were alone we acted like a couple - but when others were around he acted like we were just friends. Finally when faced with the choice ... we wound up not even being friends anymore. I never really did figure out if it was because he was embarrassed to be seen with a fat girlfriend...but I always felt that way.

It makes me so sad and angry that people are so cruel. The world really isn't a fair place.

When I was in Florida for spring break in college, these boys drove by in a car and yelled, "take it off, except for the one in the middle, you put more clothes on!" I was so embarrassed, and it made me feel like I was an idiot for going on that trip while I was overweight.

Another time, I was walking down the main street downtown with my best friend, and this car slowed down with a bunch of young guys in it, and one of them said to my friend "ditch your fat friend, and come have fun with us tonight!" That same night, I had people yelling all kinds of things from car windows. I don't walk down the street downtown after midnight anymore.

Another time was a conversation I had with someone I had gone on a date with, who told me that if I looked then what I look like now, he never would have asked me out.

I have also had a friend tell me that he would have to have the shocks on his car tested after he gave me a ride.

People are so ignorant and mean. It really makes me mad.

I've been called probably every stupid name you can think of. Name calling doesn't bother me now, it did when I was younger. There's only a couple of times I can really remember being hurt badly enough to remember them still. In junior high my "bestfriend" and i were in my room and out of nowhere she grabbed my face to make it "smaller" and told me if I lost weight I'd be so pretty. Another time was when I was handing back checked papers to my classmates and this one girl who was always picking on me asked if I got hungry and chewed on her paper and if I was pregnant. Then freshmen year of highschool I was in art class and this jerk was sitting across from me. Looked at the guy that I liked and asked him if he thought I looked like a gorilla too. Ummmmm a gorilla? Gimme a friggen break.

You know, I've been reading the comments daily and I have to say that I have been sooooo lucky in my life. I don't remember too many rude gestures or comments because of me being overweight. I do remember my cousin calling me names, but I got over that...I told his dad..lol. I hate that most of you have had bad experiences. (((hugs)))

I figure I should add to pile as well:

I remember when I was in 6th and 7th grade, this girl (who I was enemies with) and her brother and his friends would torture me after class. Just plain, flat out call me names, saying "fat ***" and other things. Funny thing is that the teacher would be standing right there and wouldn't say a damn word. Also ironic: this was at a private, Catholic school. My whole elementary/middle school career was plagued with those memories. None happy, just those of people yelling rude things to me. Of course, I played on all the sports teams and I still got screamed at.

I've had stuff yelled at me from car windows. My freshman year of college, I was walking with my friend from the rec center and someone yelled "Lose some weight, white girl!" from the window. That's always fun.

My father has also said things like "Get off your *** and lose some weight." Of course, he completely denies it now, but *shrug* I remember it.

I think the most hurtful comments were from an ex-best friend. She was only a size smaller than me, but would say things like "You have any clothes you wanna give away? Oh wait, they wouldn't fit me, they'd be too big." Or would constantly say "Wow, you have the biggest calves I've ever seen" (which, btw, I still think of every time I go to gym.) There was also when other kids in HS would make fun of me (call me "big ***" or whatever) and she would just sit there and ****ing agree. I stood up for her when people said **** about her, but I didn't get the same treatment. But I feel better about the situation because I've lost 50 lbs and she's gained at least 30 or more.