What's the worst thing said about your weight ?

My first boyfriend told me he would probably treat me better if I lost weight. He also said his friends told him he could do better than me because I was fat and then about a year after we broke up when he was trying to get me back and bought me some Easter chocolate and I said I was trying to watch what I ate he looked at me and said, 'that's what you always say but nothing ever seems to change."

Yeah, what a winner eh?

Thankfully 10 years later I am married to the BEST man who loves me and thinks I look sexy at any weight.

My mother aways calls me fat since I was 8 years old. She did this too when I was 95lbs and I suffered from anorexia. She aways says nobody want a fat girl and nobody will want me. And maybe she's right because well, I'm 21 and nobody wanted me in my whole life.

I was at a state fair with my kids who wanted to see the racing pigs.

The last race is when they race their really, really big pigs...but before they open the pen for them to race the carnival guy says he needs a couple of cheerleaders from the audience--who can really cheer on his best, fastest, etc.

I knew what was coming....so I tried to make myself inconspicuous (as if that were possible) but he zeroed in on me and picked me out for the "baddest pig of them all...Tyrone" which was a very large 350lb hog.

Of course--I was humilated and wanted to leave--but my kids (who were toddlers) were having such a great time and wanted to see "mommy's pig win!"

The carnival guy made very disparaging comments about "my pig" and how it took a special cheerleader with a "big ol pot belly" or a big "hog" to cheer on his biggest pig.

Of course--the damn pig won...and he wanted me to come up and get a poster or some stupid gift. I was humiliated beyond compare and still cry about that to this day. Of course--at the time it didn't spur me on to do anything. I really fell into a bad spiral and gained even more weight.

I can recall that humiliation in my head so vividly.

Now, I'd like to punch the #$%#$% out of that guy.

I have had lots of hurtful things said to me thru my years of battling my weight, but the worst I think was after I lost most of my weight. My Sister-in-law told anyone who would listen that I was only losing weight because I want to try to look better than my daughters and compete with them for their boyfriends.

Just wanted to add one other thing that has always stuck with me were the words my now husband once told me when we were dating,at the time I was not really fat but just a bit over weight (actually weighed about the same as I do now just my body fat % was higher). He told me that after we were married that he would divorce me if I ever got fat. Those were just about the most hurtful and scariest words I had ever heard and they are still embedded into the back of my mind.

I was at a state fair with my kids who wanted to see the racing pigs.

The last race is when they race their really, really big pigs...but before they open the pen for them to race the carnival guy says he needs a couple of cheerleaders from the audience--who can really cheer on his best, fastest, etc.

I knew what was coming....so I tried to make myself inconspicuous (as if that were possible) but he zeroed in on me and picked me out for the "baddest pig of them all...Tyrone" which was a very large 350lb hog.

Of course--I was humilated and wanted to leave--but my kids (who were toddlers) were having such a great time and wanted to see "mommy's pig win!"

The carnival guy made very disparaging comments about "my pig" and how it took a special cheerleader with a "big ol pot belly" or a big "hog" to cheer on his biggest pig.

Of course--the damn pig won...and he wanted me to come up and get a poster or some stupid gift. I was humiliated beyond compare and still cry about that to this day. Of course--at the time it didn't spur me on to do anything. I really fell into a bad spiral and gained even more weight.

I can recall that humiliation in my head so vividly.

Now, I'd like to punch the #$%#$% out of that guy.

I am bad to say that some people don't deserve the D____d air they breathe. That carny is one of them. I've never had anything quite like that happen to me but when I was up to nearly 370, I avoided social situations like that. I would NOT EVER go to a comedy club. Not unless I got to sit WAAAAAY in the back.

A woman came into my work the other day who I hadn't seen in over 10 years, and then decided to state matter of factly in front of all my collegues that "I almost didn't recognise you, you've put on so much weight!" Yes, I have put on a bit in the 10 years since I last saw you (I was a teenager back then), but I didn't actually need you to point it out publicly! So embarassing.

That was the deciding moment that I really need to do it this time.

Wanted to get eye contacts and the Eye Dr. told me no because I have fat in my eyes. Serious.

When I was younger, probably before I was a teenager, my mom told me that if I didn't lose weight, I would never get a boyfriend.

From the time I was about 9 years old to about age 19, my dad made daily jokes and digs about my weight. DAILY and multiple times a day. Now it's just every so often, luckily because he lives 1000 miles away.

I once told a boy I liked him in middle school, and he walked around blowing like an elephant.

I had a man incessantly asking me to dance at a club; when I refused repeatedly, he told me that I really couldn't afford to be all that choosy, so I might as well dance with him. Golly, that made me all weak in the knees, huh?? LOL

Those are just the tip of it all.

An instance that ALWAYS stands out in my mind when thinking about people being rude about my weight is this: I was at the mall with a friend and I was going one way through one of those theft detectors while a thin girl probably the same age as me was going through the other side. I accidentally bumped into her (or did she bump into me? seeing as I was the bigger target..) and without even a blink she said "get out of the way fatass".

I signed up to do a challenge called the Yorkshire Three Peaks - you walk/climb up 3 peaks, covering 24 miles and 6900 feet in 1 day (people aim to do it in 12 hours)

A couple of close members of family told me I wouldn't do it because of my weight. Others just looked t menlike i was mental or lying. That hurt.

Guess what?

I was the fattest person that I saw doing it. It was hard, 12.5 hours of physical and mental effort. There were points where i could have curled up and cried. I had 12 blisters, a cut & bruised knee and i still have 2 black toenails!

The people in our assigned group were utter ar$eholles to us to begin with as well, saying that we shouldn't be doing it ( me cos of my size, my friend because she was short and slow)

But my mind is stronger than any other part of my body.

I DID IT.

I raised £600 for sick children.

Don't listen to people who try to bring you down, they are just insecure themselves. Invest your emotional energy in yourself and those who believe in you.

You are very awesome!!! Go girl! It's nice to read inspiration on here.

Awwww thanks to you too, made me Smile.