your worse or humiliating experience when fat?

Mine is definatly when I was on a rollercoaster ride, once id squashed in into the seat, the safety harness would not lock tight, the young female attendant could not push the bar down so they had to get the big burly male ride operator to come out from his station and push with all his might to close it, all this meaning the ride was delayed and all infront of queing passengers, when they finally did close it I could barely breath through the duration of the ride. Humiliated wasnt the word! Never again!

1. Had to go to grandparents house everyday before & after school: my nickname was "fatso" and "F-A-T". When asked how I was doing, I would respond "I'm fine!" each day, and each day it would be followed up with "Are you fine or are you fat?" I dreaded each morning being confronted with being fat.

2. Annual check-up around 8 years old my mom made me tell the doctor I was too fat. I think she felt bad after since I cried while saying it to the doctor. We went out to dinner after and she said I could have whatever I wanted. She realized her error, right? Nope, when she was yelling at me a few days or weeks later, during her angry rant (these happened often) she said "and you can go crying to the doctor all you want about being too fat..I really don't care!" (The disagreement at the time didn't involve weight, but everything I did wrong or was getting in trouble for always went back to me being fat)

Also growing up she would always call me fat and say/do other things to make me cry. When I would start crying she would say "you're fat and you're ugly. and when you cry you look more ugly!!" When she would get mad at me or if I made any type of mistake (most of them innocent), she would call me "Fat Fool"

3. Both of my sisters were very skinny growing up (not average, actual skinny) and I was overweight. When a schoolmate's mother was our cashier one day at the grocery store she asked my mom "the other two are so skinny, how come she's so fat? She's eating too much!" and winked. Of course my mom said nothing to her, but as we were leaving the store she yelled at me angrily, asking "Why would she ask that? Were you eating a lot at the school trip?" (that lady was a chaperone at a recent school trip)

4. Pictures. and not just ones at bad angles. I'd go on vacation or to a special event and be excited to see the pictures (before digital cameras), and I was always so sad and embarassed when I saw what I looked like. Especially because I usually was excited and happy at the events, wearing nice clothes and feeling great in them.

5. As a kid whenever I'd say I was hungry, usually because we weren't given proper lunches or even snacks, I'd be told "You? You're always hungry though"

There's a lot more but I won't put it all here and I'm sure I've thankfully forgotten some. I really felt hideous growing up and that no one would ever like me, either as a friend or anything more. I lost a lot of weight at 20 years old and at 21 when I was a size 2/4 and wearing XS I still felt huge. I think constantly being told that I was fat and ugly has really stuck with me. I feel like a "fat person" no matter what size or weight I am.

Now that I've learned a lot more about health and fitness, what really bothers me is that none of these comments or statements came from a place of caring or concern. They weren't concerned about my health or well-being. It's not like I can look back on these comments and think they were trying to help me. In fact, I was always ridiculed for it, put down, and/or made fun of. Nobody tried to help me or offered any help/suggestions.

I needed surgery over a year ago and so my doctor sent me to have an MRI , You know the open kind? well as they slid me in it my belly just touched the top in spots so if I were to gain any more weight I don`t know what they would have done with me?? Use an elephant scanner??? I just thought to myself - OMG !! I was mortified!

Two stick in my mind.

My Aunt and Uncle drove past me walking home from work one day and pulled over to offer me a lift. My uncle says they weren't sure it was me from behind as the person "looked too big". At this point i saw my aunt knock his elbow to shut him up - subtle.

The other was when i was walking past a young slim girl and two young lads. One lad said hello, the other said "wow she's massive in comparison to you! (To the slim girl) Twice the size!"

Funnily enough it hurt my feelings but not enough for me to actually lose the weight. I lost it for me, when i was ready! Sod the other people!

My seat belt didn't fit on a Southwest flight. I was so terrified that I would either be singled out and humiliated by a seat belt extender or, worse, asked to pay for a second seat, that I held my purse over the buckle on the belt throughout the whole flight so that an attendant couldn't see it didn't fit. That was the LAST time a seat belt on a flight didn't fit.

A few years ago, I was driving with the windows down and stopped at a stoplight when I heard something coming from the car next to me. There were two guys in their 20s in the car next to mine and they were looking at me saying "moo!!" When I instinctively looked over, they said "How's it going cow?" and mooed at me until the light changed. I was so devastated that it crushed my self esteem and made things worse for me for a while. People can be so cruel. That experience just sticks with me. So simple, but so traumatic.

What a bunch of *kitten* I'm sorry you had to go through that! People can be so ****ing mean!!! I can relate to that, every time I'm in traffic and someone wants to insult me (for driving recklessly LOL - hey sometimes it's them) their first insult is calling me fat or something related.

I can change my weight, but ugly comes from the inside.

this, thisthisthis... also, now we really need a thread about people being awesome SOME PEOPLE ARE AWESOME, maybe even A LOT of people are awesome, the people ON THIS THREAD ARE AWESOME and i think we all need to take a moment and remember that

seriously HUGS TO EVERYONE ON THIS THREAD

Oh my goodness, there are so many; but I think the worst one was when I was at a water park with my children. They wasnted me to go down a water slide so bad. Not a problem, it goes down right? We get to the top of the slide and there is water jetting out really fast. You're supposed to sit in an innertube and this jetting water pushes you up and over the hump. I mean there is no way that it won't push you over, it must be coming out at 10oo miles per hour. Well, needless to say; I didn't get over the hump. There were a million people in line and they had to stop the water from the slide and I had to be escorted through the rest of the slide, on-lookers wondering what happened. I'm a 6'1" probably 350lb man and I had to hide my tears of humiliation.

my children have been bullied because of my weight. i do not care if you insult me but please do not involve my kids. i was picking them up from school when some of their classmates mooed at me and told them they will be fat like me too. this was my turning point. i had a gastric sleeve done last year and lost nearly 50 pounds but i still have a long journey. my children shouldn't need to suffer because of my weight

I know that look:-(. My husband is 6'3 and thin. Both of my boys are tall and thin. I'm 5'5 and weigh over 200lbs.