When I was in 7th grade, I had a doc appt & was very late for school - I got to school during lunch period, which was almost over. I was so hungry! - hadn't eaten any breakfast (you know the drill, had to fast for certain tests, etc.) so I rushed thru the line to get lunch before it was closed down. I sat with a group of friends who had long finished their lunch, and I was trying to hurry to eat because it was almost time to go! - so I was eating really fast (I eat fast anyway, but that day I was eating extra fast!) and this one boy walked by & made "pig" noises at me (oinking) and said "eat, P-p-p-p-p-orky, eat!!!" (Porky - as in Porky the Pig cartoon character, known for his stuttering.)
I was mortified! - and I wasn't even fat then - I was 12 years old & weighed maybe 90 lb.
Also, a few years ago, a woman I worked with had lost about 60 lb. One day as I was "eating lunch very fast" she walked by my office & said "Look at her, just shoveling it in!" - I mean, seriously, WTF? Some people are just jack@sses & others are just stupid I guess.
I am a fast eater, too (came from years working in restaurants/retail when breaks had to be short) and I ALWAYS get comments about how fast I eat whenever I'm with people, no matter what my weight. People are idiots.
I was 11, and already obese. My mom and I couldn't find a bathing suit to fit me, so she'd sewed me one.
I was on the high dive getting ready to jump when one of my male classmates shouted "Tubbbooo Lardoooo!!!! So fat they don't even make clothes her size!!!!" I wanted to fall to the bottom of the pool and die. I have actually seen him recently, around town, and want to punch him in the face. What a loser.
Jerk! I think it's really cool that your mom sewed a swimsuit for you, regardless of whether you could find one to fit or not. I never thought anyone could/would say this. I sew for my daughter who has consistently been 100% for her height and weight since she was born (she's 5 now and entering Kindergarten in the fall). I would be so angry and sad if someone said that about her. Pediatrician says her height is going to speed up and weight slow down and not to worry because she eats healthy and her weight has been consistent. It worries me...
Mine is last summer: I was hauling wheelbarrows full of dirt to the backyard for a flower bed and had to go pick up my kids at Safety Town (police department puts it on). I didn't realize how sweaty I was until I got to the school and ran to the rest room. I had sweat so bad that my t-shirt didn't look wet but the back of my jean shorts were soaking wet (ran down my back to my shorts). Not only gross looking but embarrassing. I had to go pick up my kids looking like I completely wet my pants. I still sweat a lot but not like I did when I was 50 lbs heavier!
I was at a small carnival with a friend of mine who was a big girl too. We waited in line to go on one of those rides that takes a little car through a funhouse/ haunted house kinda thing. When it was our turn we wedged ourselves into the little car, and it chugged off, but couldn't make it up the first little incline. I had to get out and walk back to the line of snickering people while she went through the ride by herself. Talk about mortified.
This wasn't directed AT me, but it was disgusting and depressing nonetheless.
Behind a guy in traffic today who had a big NO FAT CHICKS sticker on one side of his back window and a Pedobear on the other.
Oh, and plush toys on the inside. I really hope he's not a father, but I don't like the alternative.
I pulled out to pass and, yep, he was a disgusting-looking slightly-overweight man. The "No Fat Chicks" thing makes my blood boil, especially because it's almost always jokingly sad by a fat man.
that's the problem - if a guy is fat, it's "molson muscle" (with the comforting pat".
gods help a big woman on the beach in a bikini and yet fat guys inflict us with the invisible speedo - the speedo so tight it's vanished into folds and all you can see is a bright blue or red pouch bobbing about in front.
AND they wear black socks with brown sandals, to boot!
I am so terrified to get back on an airplane (Haven't for 90 bs ago!!), but last summer a trip to the amusement park with my now husband was cut short when I couldn't fit onto a ride. I was sobbing and too mortified to even try any other rides. I think it was the first time in a long time I felt fat (and this was when I was down to like 285ish). Glad I have such an understanding man, if that had happened with anyone else I would have DIED, seriously just rolled over dead.
I met up with an old boyfriend of mine. We had hung out several times as just really good friends and decided to go to a pool one day. Later on we were texting and he told me that I was "bigger than he thought I was." I found out he meant it as a compliment...he apparently really likes bigger girls, but it really mortified me to think I was now considered a "big girl" and that I apparently look even bigger when wearing a bathing suit versus just normal clothes. Still bugs me to this day.
I could probably think of at least a dozen different things, but here are the two most recent...
I went to visit a close friend in Hawaii last April, and had a great time! But... One night as we were leaving a bar in Waikiki, a guy asked me if I wanted a lite for my cig (smoking, I know,bad, bad, bad)? I said "no thanks" because I already had my lighter out. His comment back was, "whatever, just trying to help a chunk-a-munk out." My friend lit into him (which was amazing, and of course my friend is 5'9", maybe 140lbs.), but I still felt like crap for the rest of the night.
A little over a month ago, I was walking on my road, and some kids yelled out, "Hey fattie, why don't you try running? Might work better!" I don't walk on my road anymore... I live next to my family's berry farm, so I walk around the perimeter of that instead.
Like most everyone here I've had several experiences where guys have yelled things like "Faaaaat!" out of car windows while I'm out walking. It hasn't stopped me from exercising. I really don't give a f*** what losers like that think.
Last year I was walking through a parking lot with a friend of mine (who is also big) and a woman pulled out in front of us. Two fugly-looking guys who were walking nearby, one of whom was fat, called out, "Get out of the way, fat f***s!" I think I yelled out something equally offensive to them, but I was fuming. More angry than embarrassed. I honestly can't understand where people get off thinking they can behave like that in public. As*****s.
When I was in eleventh grade I was walking home and a couple of seventh graders were walking behind me. They started making fun of my skirt and how big it was, and while I gave as good as I got it affected me enough that I didn't want to go to school anymore. Another incident occurred more recently. I was walking home from the store and a bunch of schoolkids started making fun of the size of my a*s.
Last year my friend and I were in a taxi and were taking home some fast food for us and our friends. As we were getting out, the taxi driver said, "You two aren't going to go in there and scoff all that food, are you? Tsk, tsk, tsk..." I was so enraged that I made a formal complaint and the driver in question was disciplined. Jerk.
Now that I think about it, more incidents like these keep popping out at me. I choose not to think about them but they happen more frequently than I've cared to admit. I can't believe the amount of vitriol I've been forced to withstand on account of my weight. And I'm not angry at myself for it. I'm angry at them. Whatever nasty things I have to say about another person I at least have the decency to wait until said person is out of earshot before I let fly with my insults! What goes through these people's minds when they're doing this? Are they just completely devoid of conscience? I can't imagine ever downright abusing someone simply because they dared commit the 'crime' of being fat.
On the topic of planes: I've only been on a plane once, when I flew to New Zealand. I narrowly avoided the seatbelt extension but only just. On the flight home I couldn't get it around me so I pretended to buckle it instead!
People had many views about the fat people.I dunno care what slim people think about Fat person like me. I am happy what i am. But few months ago i decided to loose my weight when my beach chair was broken due to my weight. I feel so much embarrassing at that time. But now i loose much weight and happy with my new avatar.
I mean, seriously, WTF? Some people are just jack@sses & others are just stupid I guess.
