Most embarrassing "fat" moment....

Last fall I was working for a conservation area. We were eating lunch when our supervisor looks at me and says "You're not going to eat all that are you? Look at the gut on ya! Its Huge! You'll be useless for the rest of the day ha ha ha." (btw I was eating a sandwich and an apple)
The other two people there laughed and then he said "Hmm maybe I shouldn't have said that. oh well I am an *kitten* who makes girls cry" (like that makes it better)

I was so upset and hurt. I couldn't help complain to my team for the the rest of the day. Word got back to the head office and I was asked to speak with a guy there(I cant remember the name of his position but basically that other supervisors supervisor). When I told him what was said he had tears in his eyes from trying not to laugh and said something along the lines of "oh well what do ya do."

Way to add insult to injury.

once, i saw a former coworker at a restaurant and as i was walking by we said hi to each other and all the regular pleasantries and then she asked if i was pregnant. i said "no, i wish that was my excuse". she felt really bad about it and came to apologize to me before her and her fiance left the restaurant. i definitely chose something healthier to eat after that though.

when my best friend was planning her wedding, it was the last year of college and i was stress eating like crazy. we went in for an initial fitting for our bridesmaids dresses then a couple after that. each time the woman had to take my dress out more because i kept gaining weight. that felt pretty awful. seeing the pictures after the wedding sucked even more.

reading some of your stories breaks my heart. i've been fortunate enough that i haven't encountered some of the abuse that some of you seem to have dealt with, but NO ONE deserves to be put down because of their weight. people think that because you are "out of the norm" that you're free game to take abuse. and that goes for other things too. someone mentioned smokers, or people who like to dress differently, dye their hair crazy colors, etc. we are all human beings and no one deserves less respect than anyone else just because someone else doesn't feel that it fits what they think is right. it just makes me so sad that anyone would think it's okay to shout insults at someone else because they are "fat".

like Thumper's mom taught him "If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all"

A couple of years ago at college in the cafe I walked in with my friends and there wasn't enough seats so I sat on a spare table and DESTROYED it, I mean busted all the legs and cracked the wood in half. I owned that table.

But yeah doesn't feel good when your lying on the floor with people laughing at you.

Worse moment was when I broke a toilet seat

Second would be a video taken during a vacation in Vegas. When I saw it I asked my husband if i was really THAT big... all he could say was yes broke my heart to hear the truth!

Told "plus size" department is that way or we dont sell yooouuur size here.

Being on a flight and told by the stranger next to me that my fat was in "his space."

on my birthday some guy called out of his car 'you're fat'. my friend pretended she didnt hear (which i'm actually thankful for, i was always too embarrassed by my weight that i never wanted to talk about it) and proceeded to buy me a coffee.

way to ruin a birthday..

The day I couldn't fit on the roller coaster and had to send my baby brother who was 8-9 years old at the time ALONE on it by himself.

This and add that I had to get off the roller coaster and everyone was staring!

been there, done that. my fiancé rode all the cool ones with the friend we went with and it was so awful. i LOOOOVE roller coasters.

i wanted to go back this summer to prove to myself i've done it and i can fit again now, but i've been too broke. *sigh*

Several years ago, my dad's job had a day at a local amusement park. And it happened to fall on my birthday. My then DH thought it would be a good present for me if the whole family went together. I really didn't want to go, but everyone else did, so I agreed. I was miserable the entire time. I couldn't ride anything but the stupid train that takes you from one part of the park to another, and I barely fit it that. I had to sit and wait while everyone else got to ride the rides. I tried not to ruin everyone else's fun, but it was a horrible day for me. And I had to smile and pretend I was having fun. Blah.

Next summer, I will be able to go. And I will ride every ride, even the crappy ones. Twice.

Wow.. *hugs* for everyone! It takes so MUCH courage to talk about things with strangers. I can't imagine some of the things you guys have been thru..Probably because I avoid shopping, restaurants, planes and roller coasters for obvious reasons, but not for much longer!

We were having dinner recently and my boyfriend's son (4 yrs old) started comparing me to his stuffed dinosaur because he was "fat like me".. My boyfriend had a very stern talk to him after that. Poor kid didn't realize how much that could hurt..

The chair I normally sit in shifted the other day and I heard a crack - my boyfriend told me I was imagining things and proceeded to tell me how the screws were probably coming lose (bless him)

Thankfully most other people keep their opinions to themselves where I can hear them because I am not at all shy about calling people out if needed and I look really mean! I had a lot of issues in school.. I used to be "Fatty Patty" but these days I've found a better place in my life and have stopped letting other people dictate my feelings for me.

I was moving into my boyfriend and I's new apartment and on the bottom floor there was a nice lady (or so I thought) that was in a wheelchair. We introduced ourselves and I introduced her to Hannah and everything. Hannah and I decided to stay up stairs and start unpacking while my boyfriend continues to bring things up. He walks in and says, "Hey babe, the lady in the wheelchair wants to know when our next baby is due." "Are you kidding me? What did you say?" "I said we aren't expecting." She didn't even apologize! I ended up not going outside for a month lmao.

When I was at my heaviest (215) I went on a rock climbing trip. I had a much smaller girl belaying me on the rock wall. I went to jump for a rock that was a bit out of my reach and I fell, causing the other girl to fly up into the air. It took 3 other people to pull her back down.

I'm not sure I could pick just one....

- One of the children I babysit (about 4 years old) told me that I was his favorite babysitter because I had a soft belly so it felt like a pillow.

- Shopping in a store for someone else and being told "Miss, you won't find anything that fits you here. You should try somewhere else."

- Sitting in a chair in the middle of the Common's Area in the math building at my university and the seat of the chair broke right off the legs of the chair and I fell to the floor in front of everyone with the legs of the chair flying one direction and the seat flying the other direction. Thankfully one of my professors was passing by and he very quickly and quietly grabbed the chair pieces as he was walking by and took them in the office. It was like he knew and just wanted to make the whole thing go away before anyone noticed! One of my favorite professors!

- Lastly, the famous walk of shame after not being able to fit on a roller coaster. The attendent working there was trying to push the bar down and actually said "Just pick up your stomach." Really?!?! I was so mortified that I refused to do anything the rest of the day. I had a bad attitude and everywhere I went I would say something smart-*kitten* like "Oh I hope I can fit through the doorway!" I was 15 and it was the first time I realized how heavy I had gotten...

How depressing is that list! My Lord I'm glad I'm not as heavy as I was when all that happened, and I am still going to work towards getting even healthier!

Oh I forgot probably my worst one....

A year or so ago I had lost a lot of weight. Then in the last 6 months I had gained about 50 or so back. So when I went to visit the my boyfriend's parents (who had last saw me 50 pounds lighter) I had two different relatives of his say something like "Oh wow! You have gained some weight haven't you girl!" many people in his family are larger people and they are ALL VERY BLUNT! They just say whatever pops into their head. So I really just had to go with it and move on because that was life. But it really sucked! Especially since it was so noticeble that I had gained so much weight back after working so hard to lose it in the first place.

At a fair with the kids, only to find the attendant was unable to close the harness on one of the rides due to my gut. I think the walk of shame past the lengthy queue I'd been in did the trick.

A guy I was interested in told me that he "didn't usually date women my size."

Now, he wants to date me lol....

I wouldn't even give him a chance!!!!!!! "If you didn't want me then you sure as hell don't deserve me now."

My fiance's 4 year old cousin coming up to me at Christmas 2 years ago and patting my belly saying "Nessa, you're pregnant!" right in front of the entire extended family. His aunt apologized for her but I was so mortified. I could feel my face turn red and I started to tear up a little bit.

I'm over it now. In her defense I DID look pregnant. My gut still sticks out quiet a bit.

I was also told by a boyfriend that I was too fat to look at, let alone love.

WHAT?????? Hope you dumped that *kitten*! Nobody is "too fat" to love. >:(