What is the worst comment you ever got about your weight?

Being underweight, I often got the whole "go eat a cheeseburger" deal, but more disturbing to me was the amount of people who thought it was okay to just stop me in public and comment on my size, or straight-up ask me what size I was. I can't imagine doing that to someone! For no reason at all- but just to giggle or gawk at! Literally had an old woman stop me at work once to essentially show me off to her friend what a size 0 looked like. Are you kidding me?! That's not okay!

yep!!!! i used to get this all the time! its what made me so insecure about my weight and decide to start gaining!
people are just so cruel.

"Only thing good about your weight is how massive your tits are... for an Asian."

"I relate to this. I came from a dysfunctional family with women who all had weight issues. Let's just say at 13 I started using dexatrim diet pills. So my self esteem was never very strong.

But this post brought back a painful memory. I was pregnant with my first child. My mother in law sat me down and explained to me how important it was for me to lose weight. Men in her family did not like big women. I was nine months pregnant! She told me that if I didn't get myself in control I may end up like her neighbor who is overweight. Then she explained to me how my father in law would tell her when she was gaining too much weight, and she would become more conscientious of what she would eat. Now to put this in context, she smoked more than a pack a day and was afraid to quit because she may gain weight. She smoked after every meal. I'm sure that curbed her appetitive. So here I was hormonal, nine months pregnant, and being told my husbands family do not like big women. I just about fell apart. I never felt comfortable with them again. It's been 13 years and they still watch what's on my plate. Im sensitive to a comment here and there, they are passive aggressive people They are what I think of thin but unhealthy. None of them, including my husband has any muscle mass. What made it worse was that I gained 30lbs in a year and was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and later with hashimotos disease. They, including my husband, don't understand the disease and think its an excuse to eat whatever I want, but it's e opposite. I eat less now than I ever did.
Last year was a new year for me. A series of events caused me to regain my self esteem. Now with MFP I have a healthier lifestyle and what my in laws or my family feel towards me doesn't seem to matter anymore. This pisses a lot of the family off and they are less passive with their comments, but I still stay true to myself. I struggle with weight loss, always will. But I ran 3 5ks last year and am training for a half marathon. This boggles their mind. My own mother thinks it must be the pill I'm taking for my thyroid that has allowed me to lose 29lbs. I say no, I've been on the same dosage for five years, there is no magic pill. She doesn't believe it and wants to know my secret. My father in law gives me grief about how I'm going to hurt myself running (because I'm big), it's bad for my joints, and any more than one mile is too much. He lets me know his opinion every time he sees me, especially when others are present No mention of the weight I lost, but to be fair, I don't think it's obvious yet. Ive learned to start to let the comments go. Mostly because I've learned that people with low self esteem like to make themselves look better by putting others down and I'm an easy target.
I believe to always be polite, remember the source, and just do what I need to do. I don't rely on support from anyone. I do my healthy lifestyle for my kids, but mostly for myselfflowerforyou "

they need to **** off and mind their own damn business

edit it didn't quote so I added myself

"You gonna work on those legs?"

Did you place your feet between his teeth after that comment...

How about this one... From my mom: "you know... I think the reason your hips look so wide is because your waist is so small!"
Pretty sure she thought that was a compliment

Funny story......So my mom was hitting the drive through at Burger Ting (what my three year old called it at the time) and the girl says, "Ma'am, I'm sorry about your wait". Seth, almost 4, says, "Oma, how rude that she said that about your weight!".

Now for me, it was when a little mentally challenged student asked me if I was pregnant......I was a 7th grader.......and no, I was not.

There were plenty of mean things said...however I think the worst thing is the "You would be so pretty if only you lost weight"....makes you think "Wowww..am I Quasimodo now??" People just don't think before they speak!

I was a bit chubby in high school. and a girl actually told me (as a compliment) that she and her friend hoped I never lost weight because then I'd be too much competition!!

:noway: :noway: :noway: :noway:

I was pregnant, but still...
I was going to get some pizza, and the pizza guy asked me when I was due. I told him, and he asked if it was just one. I laughed, and said, "Yeah, just one,"
He gave me a look of disgust and disbelief as he handed me my pizza and said, "Wow. You look like you're carrying twins."
I should have thrown the pizza at his face, but I didn't think about it until later.
I walked away, could hardly eat the stupid pizza and cried when I got home.

I relate to this. I came from a dysfunctional family with women who all had weight issues. Let's just say at 13 I started using dexatrim diet pills. So my self esteem was never very strong.
But this post brought back a painful memory. I was pregnant with my first child. My mother in law sat me down and explained to me how important it was for me to lose weight. Men in her family did not like big women. I was nine months pregnant! She told me that if I didn't get myself in control I may end up like her neighbor who is overweight. Then she explained to me how my father in law would tell her when she was gaining too much weight, and she would become more conscientious of what she would eat. Now to put this in context, she smoked more than a pack a day and was afraid to quit because she may gain weight. She smoked after every meal. I'm sure that curbed her appetitive. So here I was hormonal, nine months pregnant, and being told my husbands family do not like big women. I just about fell apart. I never felt comfortable with them again. It's been 13 years and they still watch what's on my plate. Im sensitive to a comment here and there, they are passive aggressive people They are what I think of thin but unhealthy. None of them, including my husband has any muscle mass. What made it worse was that I gained 30lbs in a year and was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and later with hashimotos disease. They, including my husband, don't understand the disease and think its an excuse to eat whatever I want, but it's e opposite. I eat less now than I ever did.
Last year was a new year for me. A series of events caused me to regain my self esteem. Now with MFP I have a healthier lifestyle and what my in laws or my family feel towards me doesn't seem to matter anymore. This pisses a lot of the family off and they are less passive with their comments, but I still stay true to myself. I struggle with weight loss, always will. But I ran 3 5ks last year and am training for a half marathon. This boggles their mind. My own mother thinks it must be the pill I'm taking for my thyroid that has allowed me to lose 29lbs. I say no, I've been on the same dosage for five years, there is no magic pill. She doesn't believe it and wants to know my secret. My father in law gives me grief about how I'm going to hurt myself running (because I'm big), it's bad for my joints, and any more than one mile is too much. He lets me know his opinion every time he sees me, especially when others are present No mention of the weight I lost, but to be fair, I don't think it's obvious yet. Ive learned to start to let the comments go. Mostly because I've learned that people with low self esteem like to make themselves look better by putting others down and I'm an easy target.
I believe to always be polite, remember the source, and just do what I need to do. I don't rely on support from anyone. I do my healthy lifestyle for my kids, but mostly for myself:flowerforyou:

sweetheart, you need to form some boundaries! I would avoid those in-laws like the plague!

Either, "Are you pregnant?" or "Run some more, fat-*kitten*" while I was running as exercise.

The one that hurt the most was you would be beautiful if you weren't fat. That's what motivated me to lose this weight.

Reading through these posts, people can be so cruel .. i remember it hurt me when i was a child people calling my mother names as she was a big girl so ive always been aware of bullies and defending victim of it. ive only put on weight the past few years id say ive been lucky as the only time a guy dared to call me a fat greedy sl@g was when i was 9 months pregnant in mcdonalds i was getting a happy meal for my toddler and complaining the fries and toy were missing... this man in his 40's sitting with his wife and 3 kids shouted over.. there was just no need, i would have hit him if kids were not present instead i just said 'i can loose weight but no plastic surgery would ever fix your face or attitude' .

Laugh it off people and walk away, your a better person than them

When my husband told me that he was no longer interested in having sex with me, because I was too fat and unattractive for him. His constant negativity and lack of encouragement led me to turn even more to food for comfort.

He is now my was-band. His constant belittling of me combined with his alcoholism made me finally boot him out. I am now happily married to a wonderful man. Together, he and I have lost a total of 130lbs. He knows that fat-shaming and criticism do not work.

I am now in the best shape of my life, and only 10lbs heavier than when I was in high school. I am within 15 lbs of my goal weight, and I will attain that this year.

A childhood friend I hadn't seen in a couple of years took me by surprise when he just kept going on and on about how much I must eat. Was not the re-union party I had hoped for, lol..... We still talk and now he is freezing cold 24/7 because he smokes very heavily and drinks a lot. Starting to have health issues. ..... I have lost most of my weight and don't have any health issues any more.

I have gotten rude comments all of my life. When I was a kid, a boy on my bus started calling me Twinkie. To this day, I have never even eaten a twinkie. That was the last time I ever let someone see me cry, though. The next time a boy picked on me, I punched him in the face.

Even as an adult, I've been cat called (except about being fat, not good looking). I have been denied entry to a concert venue for being "fat and sloppy." I used to get wrecked by this stuff. I would literally lock myself in my house for months at a time following an embarrassing encounter like this. I had no idea that it wasn't *me* who should be ashamed, but the people who dared to say such horrible things to a complete stranger.

10 year old me "I want to be a Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader!"

Dad: "They don't let fat-*kitten* become cheerleaders."

I wasn't really that fat, I was the type of chubby some little girls go through right before starting puberty.

Years later, I talked to him about it. He had been drinking and he didn't remember it and when I told him how much it hurt, he cried(second time I had ever seen him cry.)