Yep. I was on a walk at my campus and a whole group of students (at least 6 of them both male and female, who were very loud even before I got close) stopped and stared at me, laughed, and made rude comments about my appearance. I ignored them and kept walking, and they thankfully didn't follow me.

I considered flipping them off or something, but I went with the "pretend they're not there" approach. While not as satisfying, there were a lot of them, I was alone, and usually no reaction is exactly what bullies don't want. In short, it was the safer option.

While it's certainly uncomfortable, at the end of the day those people are no one to you and don't matter at all. I think you handled it very well.

It's one thing to feel embarrassed when that happens, it's another to let it affect your behaviors. You didn't let it affect what you did - you just kept on with your workout. That's the way to handle idiots most times.

Wow, that is low and immature. I say even insecure.

It still stings that when I was all if 7 I was called Fatso at school. I was in no way overweight but by the next year I was.

My SIL is morbidly obese, she is trying her best to change her lifestyle and I am so inspired for her. We were in the City with my kids and some young women sniggered and made some heartless remarks about her weight. I was so relieved she didn't hear them, it broke my heart. ( Unfortunately she probably has heard it from others).

I am so weary of people seeing me run, walk or even cycle despite losing weight. Most people are supportive though. I don't go on the main roads, usually on the bike path. I am weary of young men - sad that. Even my 8yo thinks all male teenagers are bullies, need to change that idea.

So sorry that happened to you. People can be such jerks! It amazes me how many people will be so ugly to another person just to make their friends laugh. I don't want friends like that. Luckily, I have never had that happen (that I heard anyways) but I do worry about it when I am out walking. I especially cringe when I hear a school bus come by because I always think that if it's going to happen, it will be then. Good for you for keeping on walking though.....don't let ignorant people keep you from your goals!

So so sorry for anyone this has happened to. This is why I was so nervous to leave the YMCA (couldn't afford it anymore) for a new gym. I was so comfortable there and worried the new gym would be full of jocks that would make fun of me. Turns out everyone there has been super nice and nonjudgmental.

I just don't understand the point of putting someone down for doing something good for their body. Regardless of how much you weigh, if you're working out, you deserve a high five!

I am so sorry those a-holes were such jerks. There are so many awful people in the world, but also a bunch of us rooting for you I'm so glad you still finished your scheduled walk without letting them derail you. I have to commend you for not hurling a rock at them though I know I should not promote that, would be unsafe. But fun to think of You've lost 80 pounds?! CONGRATS!!

I haven't been made fun of while working out, most of my life's teasing (yeah, it was called 'teasing' back in the 60's and 70's, lol ) was when I was a kid, but 40 years later I remember every ... single ... incident of being called fat, or that I had 'sausage legs' (by my best friend!!) or a 'whale' (by my sister).

Great point that someone made, that even freakin perfect looking celebrities get horrible tweets. Someone said Rob Lowe 'looks like he has cancer'. Or Christina Applegate 'is a slutty slut'. What the eff?

Late to the game here but this thread reminded me of the time when I went to an exercise class at the gym with a co-worker. This was in my skinny days but I've never been coordinated. Any way, the music started and the two instructors started demonstrating the movements and I just couldn't keep up. They stood close to each other and started whispering and glancing at me and then cracked up. Then the guy walked over to me and said he would try and help teach me the moves but he gave up eventually. I turned and walked out of the class and never renewed my membership when it ran out.

That's awful. Don't you wish now that you had reported them? All I can think about is how many people have they done this to since without any reprecussions?

Those guys were just plain idiots. There's nothing funny about a person exercising though I know it hurt. Trust me, they have more problems that you do and it shows their IQ. They were trying to hurt you because of their own low self esteem and had too much time on their hands.

The ones who should feel ashamed are thos two guys, not you! and a BIG CONGRATULATIONS for not stopping because of a couple of *******s!

You keep doing what you do! and know that this overweight you have now is only temporary, their pathetic personality is for life!

I have two co workers so have humilliated me several times! "you will never be thin", "you will never fit into my vest!" well guess what, I wore HIS vest yesterday and fitted me better than him, just to see the look on his face!

Be proud of what you are doing cause you know exactly how hard and painful it is to lose weight and work that hard!

It is so sad that people get enjoyment out of doing things like this to others... In high school, my friend and I were new to the cross country team. Small school, so we were still able to make the team regardless of how slow we were. We were both in decent shape (not over weight), but we still had kids from our school yell at us when we were running or tell us later that it didn't even look like we were running, we shouldn't be on the cross country team. We stuck through it till the end of the season and both of us improved substantially. Just had to put all the comments to use and run harder.

Then about two years ago I was riding my bike and a truck sped up and nearly hit me. I could hear laughing and if I remember I, yes I said "I", was flipped off by them. Like I was the one that did something wrong! I was soooo mad..

Yes wannabeskinny, I probably should've but I was mortified and left. Now when I see folks how are heavier and/or older than me running or walking or just doing something I think good on them because they're lapping everyone on the couch.

I can completely understand. There have been times in my life where I wish if only I could go back and redo! Listen, walking out of there was brave too, you cared about yourself enough not to subject yourself to that kind of abuse.

I seriously hope that if you can PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE report these issues. OP you definitely should have called the cops, thats inappropriate and unsafe.

and all of you who were ridiculed by gym workers, you may not think that reporting to higher ups will do anything but, I know if that happened at the gym I worked at there would be MAJOR issues.

in jr high i was 5'5" and 138 lbs. i wore a save the whales shirt and the running joke in my class became "save the whales, harpoon katerina"

the first in a long line of mean things about being fat.