What's the worst thing said about your weight ?

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  • bethanykf
    bethanykf Posts: 68
    A client at the mental health center where I work who was at least twice my age told me that she recently lost a ton of weight and she'd bring the clothes that were now too big for her in for me... I responded saying that I was working on a healthy lifestyle myself so I wouldn't need them.

    It was such an insignificant thing, but it has stuck with me even 4 years later.

    There was also an instance where my mom was insisting that I didn't wear a 1x shirt - she was sure I wore a 3x. After I moped around for awhile I went on to lose 70 lbs... my lowest weight in years. Unfortunately I gained it all back and more so now I'm doing it to show myself I can and not to show my mom that I don't wear the shirt size she thinks... lol
  • thesiberianwind
    thesiberianwind Posts: 5
    I think the worst have been comments not directed AT me, but ABOUT me. My stepdaughter is at an unhealthy weight, and refuses to eat healthy (there's other issues like anxiety and such going on).

    My husband said that the pants of mine (jeans) that he put on by accident didn't fit and were falling off. (He's not exactly at his ideal weight either.) He's also said that if I don't like some pants or a skirt or whatever that my family or his buys for me, I could always give it to his daughter to wear, 'cause we must wear the same size.

    I try not to let it hurt. It's his engineering brain that isn't connecting with his conscience.
  • dixiewhiskey
    dixiewhiskey Posts: 3,333 Member
    I remember when I was 12, my mother's stepfather told me he could use the fat on my body as his car tires
  • chrissi024
    chrissi024 Posts: 12 Member
    "Aww! When is the little Balboa due?" I guess I hold my fat very attractively because she thought I was preggo. She was bigger than me too which pissed me off.
  • NZRose7
    NZRose7 Posts: 21 Member
    When I was a kid a friends mother said I had legs like tree stumps. As an adult, "she'd be really hot if she were slim. People just don't realize that comments like that, regardless of how its said with what intentions, really hurt and stay with you for life. I've also been in the company of people who saw an overweight person walking along and started saying all kinds of mean things about her, and I'm thinking, if you think that about her, what do you think about me?

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