Remarks others have made about your weight...

since i gain most of my weight in the middle, i'm constantly asked " r u pregnant"" oh how i hate that question

as i was looking back through my old photos i realised that even when i was at the weight i now want to be, i was asked that same question - gosh what do i do when i hit my goal

Several years ago, my mother was diagnosed with a fairly bad thyroid problem. Her doctor told her it was hereditary and that I should get myself checked regularly. My doctor had recently retired and my insurance company had transfered me to another doctor. I decided to give him a try and made an appointment to get some test done. After explaining about my mother & what her doctor had said, he looked me up and down, sighed and said, "Every overweight woman wants to believe she has a thyroid problem, so she can have an excuse. We'll go ahead and run the tests if you really want." Excuse me? I'm here for tests at another doctors suggestion and this is the attitude I get? :mad:

I told him he was an a****le and that I didn't need him to do anything for me, got dressed and stormed out. I filed a formal complaint with his medical group and with the insurance company before changing doctors. They still tried to bill me for the co-pay for the visit.

Oh I have plenty of these comments. Lets see...

I was in 3rd grade at a sleep over and two of my friends were climbing a fence and they told me "get off the fence, you are too big, you'll just break it." That was the first time anyone (outside the family) had mentioned I was "different".

When ever my father saw an Elephant on T.V. he would say "Hey, I didn't know you were on T.V." That was always fun to hear. My (extended) family is one of the worse for making these kinds of comments, but I will leave it at that.

I could go on for days but the last one I will mention was in my freshman year of college, the first semester. I had just made a group of friends (at a school my parent's picked for me) and I was actually having a good time. One night, my first weekend staying at college, I got all dressed up and felt extremely good about myself, I had recently lost weight and felt confident. Well that night I noticed three of the four texting eachother and laughing, then one said "hahaha, yeah they could be Curtains!" Seeing as I am not stupid, I knew they were talking about my clothing, and the one person who wasn't apart of the "fun" confrimed it.. Well I went home early that weekend and when they found out I knew they where making fun of me, all four "friends" stopped talking to me. And at the end of the Semester I left the shool and took a year off. That was 3 years ago and it still hurts. I thought I had found some really good friends, boy, was I wrong.

Even though my mother has been overweight for decades, she seems to have made the most comments about my weight.

One day shopping for some clothes in the men's section, since those were the only clothes large enough to fit me, my mother leans over and asks me if I'm a *kitten*. Uh, no.

I have a twin sister and my mom was constantly telling me that my butt was bigger than my sisters. A favorite of hers would be to tell family members that we looked like her, but had bigger hips than she ever did in high school.

Aww, mothers...

I remember women in my church when I was growing up saying "you are big, but you have such a pretty face. Why don't you lose some weight?" I was about 125 pounds and in high school. Many of these women wonder why I quit going to that church. What's funny about these same women, is that when I got to my largest (316) none of them would dare say anything about my weight.

When I used to sell incense at a flea market, the owners put down these rocks in the walk areas. I slipped on the rocks and went to the office to see if they had a first aid kit. The remark was made that I should not try to sue because I was fat and "fat people fall". I was not even thinking about suing, I just fell on the rocks and wanted a stupid bandaid!!

I, sadly have plenty of these stories, coming from my mom and even my "best friend". People can be ugly and many use these remarks to make themselves feel better about their own issues.

A few years ago I took my, then recently adopted, 6 month old daughter to the doctors for a well-check. She was extremely chubby due to her bio-mom stuffing a bottle in her mouth everytime she made a noise. So as the doctor was checking her out, the doc looked at me and said, "I see Mom still has all her baby weight still on her, but why is baby so fat?" Let me repeat, my daughter was ADOPTED by me!

I've got a good one I haven't seen yet. "You got the brains, your sister got the looks."

Heard that most of my life. Not demoralizing at all, no! :grumble:

What happened to being beautiful on the inside? There are a lot of people I know who are thin and beautiful on the outside, but I would never want to be them because they are so disgusting on the inside.

Most of the comments I get are annoying on the opposite end. Because I only have 20 or so lbs and don't look that heavy, even though I'm unhealthy I get to hear things like, "Oh, honey, you're thin enough!"
Or "You're skinny, here eat this."
Or "You don't need to get that much in shape, really."
Or "I can't have this because I'm trying to loose weight, but here why don't you eat it."
Or "You're on a diet? You don't need to diet, hun, you'll be too thin." (Even though I'm slowly gaining out of my wardrobe again. Like I don't know when I've gained weight.)
Or "You don't need to be on a diet!"
(Both of the above two usually precedes my snide remark about how "diet" is something everyone has, what you eat is your "diet". I'm trying for a healthier one.)
Or "You can have some! You're healthy enough!"
Or my favorite, "You don't need to loose weight, I need to loose weight." Then this particular person stuffed a mouthful of deep-fried cheesecake slathered in chocolate and whipped cream in her mouth.

I was working out at the ymca and a guy was mad because all the ellipticals were being used. I happend the be on the elliptical closest to the walkway, he came up to me and told me I was to fat to be using the machine and that I needed to get off so people like him wouldn't become like me. :devil:

I get the...you really shouldn't lose any more weight...it's not healthy....you won't ever be able to get preggo....you will be too skinny...Whah?:noway: I am still not even in the healthy BMI range! My Body fat is still way too high...what the....So I have been getting the opposite end of stuff...its just as annoying as when I was 26 lbs heavier.