rudest thing anyone has ever said about your weight?

"you would be pretty if you lost all your weight"

I have a theory that this same car of guys just travels the countryside yelling this. So we've all been yelled at by the same cursed individuals. They have no other purpose in life, but to yell horrible things at people out their windows. It's their curse. I am hoping Supernatural does an episode where Sam and Dean have to put them to rest for good.

The best part is when you can't understand them so it's just a loud "WERVEQGBWRRFG FG" as they drive by. It makes me chuckle.

This is actually not a bad idea. lol

It's ridiculous that no one told her that was inappropriate - I think your argument should almost more be with them than with her.

I'll agree that different cultures have different norms (when I visited China and would jog, little kids would follow me and yell that I was so fat, ha), but I think it's on the person engaging in the majority culture to learn the norms, and I think other people should have your back on that. You're definitely not crazy for being upset.

I see you got the Chinese 'treatment' too.
I went to Shantao and they would congregate and and stare, some would point. I had never seen a thing like that before.
Even in supposedly professional settings, I was not spared the stares...I still shudder when I think of that experience.

A really toxic colleague once offered me a ride in her car...I declined because I parked further away so I could walk.
she said "Are you worried you may not fit in my car?" she is not exactly twiggy.... I just thought how tactless could anyone be? guess who is at least 4sizes smaller than she is now?

Nobody makes comments about my weight, as I distribute it fairly well...well, not untill yesterday at work, that is. Have noticed you're getting bigger. Are you planning on loosing weight? he asked. Well, I'm just starting a new weight loss programme, and hope to see some results by summer, I said. I'll take you out for a drink in the summer, he said.
All I could think of all day, was that he had called me fat.
Then, later when I was offered a lift, by a friend, and a co worker was sharing, so that one of us had to get in the back, of this 'tin can'. I'm not kidding, it was smaller than a mini a la cooper, and this guy exclaimed, I was so big! looking horrified.
I did get in the back, with my knees, up to my chin. Banged my head, on the 'car' interior, every time there was a bump in the road, and as much as I tried, I had difficulty in trying not to laugh at the crazy situation. What a carry on!

Mine actually came after weight loss when someone said, "you used to be on the big side, you look better now."

It was meant in kindness, but I wasn't overweight to begin with. Hurt my feelings a lot.

Oh... wow... I can relate to so many of those stories.

For me... I think it was in my mid-teen years - so around 15-16. I used to be an active athlete - soccer, volleyball, going out for long biking sessions and so on, but after an injury I had to drop sport. I started gaining weight and by the age of 15-16 I was at 80+kg at 171cm. And in my country this was and is considered obese. If you are 171cm tall and you weigh more than 60kg you are fat. End of story. So for a girl my height and my weight there were no available clothes. We had XSS, XS, S, M and L and L was at the time equal to a US size 8-10?

So, I remember that one week just before the beginning of 10th grade my mother and I went to a shopping center, looking for a couple of new pair of jeans. So we walk in that one store and we ask what they would recommend to us. And the dumb saleswoman goes like 'Oh. No. We have nothing for someone like her' - a mild disgust on her face as she sizes me up. Then my mother nods and agrees and ask what we can do for me. And I end up being pushed to the men's side of the store where I get a pair of horribly baggy jeans (which is normal I don't have a package to fill the front) So... yeah... And it wasn't the only time I've got that reaction in stores.

Even now when my country has somewhat progressed (10 years later) and stores do now stock up on bigger sizes (due to overweight tendencies among most of the kids and older women and men), I still get anxiety attacks when I go shopping.

This along with my mother's non-stop chanting when I was a teen about how 'no one will ever love me the way I am' has seriously affected my adult life so far and all the body image issues that I have.

A girl I considered a very close friend made a scene in front of a large group of our friends that no one should hug me because I'd break in half and went on to loudly comment that she didn't understand why I always had dates because who would want to date "a twig." I later came to realize it was a product of her own insecurity, but at the time it was incredibly hurtful.

If I had a dollar for every time I've been called "skinny b!tch" by a total stranger I could take us all out for milkshakes :noway:

Try to let the comments roll off your shoulders OP, people can be nasty but it's up to us to rise above that.

I want a milkshake! I'm sorry for your experiences, all of that was so uncalled for on your 'friends' part.

A few years ago, I was dating this really attractive and fit guy who was sooooo critical of all women's weight. He probably had a lot of insecurities.

We were at the beach and I had finally reached my lowest weight and finally felt comfortable in a bikini. I bent over to pick up a towel, and he took a picture of me from the side (no one looks good from the side bending over - I don't care how fit you are). And he showed it to me and circled all of the places where i was fat. He literally said "omg look how fat you are here and here and here and here."

So that felt great.

Gahhhh you just reminded me of the jiu-jitsu master I dated a few years ago, at my highest weight. (5'5'', 155 NO muscle tone whatsoever.)
He literally looked me in the eye and said "You are the thinnest girl I've ever dated."
Honestly I didn't know how to take it. Still irks me to this day.

My mother..."Nobody is ever going to love you because you are too fat. I'm so embarrassed by you".....I was 12.
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i m fat
i know that
and my name is 'vaishnavi' nick name vaish and i m from india and what some ppl cal me here is a word called 'bhains' meanin buffalo!!!!! and the funny part is my name sounds same similar to that sick word!!!
and when i travel some of the asholes pass lewd comments which is tooooooo rude and they cal me fat and that i must be eating a loads and al!!!!!!!

it is still insulting when someone claims you are/were larger than you really are/were.

Here I was thinking that my situation was trivial, but here is someone going through something similar.

Had an "old friend" who has always been holocaust-victim skinny recently mutter, "I didn't know you got THAT fat!" When put that way, it's like, "Woah! What's THAT supposed to mean, dude?!" Only thing I could do to keep composure was to cool-face it and say, "Yup. **** happens."

Outside of that, it was my step-father constantly calling me "slim", like it was some nickname, when I got up to 279 lbs. It resonated in my mind for the longest time... and in a way, it still does.

Worst I got was in high school the snooty girls asking if I was pregnant. I was only 135 and even then a lot of that was boobs. Since graduating I'm glad to not be stuck around people like that. All of my friends and family are super awesome. My hubby NEVER comments one way or the other, treats me like I'm gorgeous no matter what and I've even had people say how good I looked after I gained a few lbs back! o_O That's a mind-blower.

Try to remember that people who throw negativity your way only do so because they feel so badly about themselves. If they matter so little to themselves then they shouldn't matter at all to you. I know it's hard, but that's what I got.

I always remember a doctor who I had never seen before went

'Just forget it, you're way to fat to even bother losing weight, you won't do it without surgery. Let's face it, you're already fat, miserable and going to be a very lonely woman, that I can gurantee'

Well doc, this first 10kg is for you..... and the last 10kg will be for you too :P

Good lord, I'd find something weighing 65kg to smack them round the head with it when you've finished.

Ugh. What a tosser.

I may just do that :P along with my after pictures

Nab his little reflex testing thing and get creative with it!

I used to be 355... and when I started working out, I would get stares from people at the gym.

Once, when I was doing a core workout, I had a trainer come over and stare at me, arms crossed, hip cocked to one side.

After watching me for a few minutes, she responded with "Wow, you must have some muscle under there somewhere."

She then offered to train me. I declined. Hmmm, I wonder why?

I respect anyone at the Gym!

I have to say, I never really went through a lot of teasing growing up. I'm from a small tight-knit community, anything said always got back to the parents and that was the end of that.

My parents were fairly supportive, and then my mom would go shopping.

She would be so proud of herself as she handed me the elastic waisted 4XL pants. I was a size 14 at the time. We seriously fit me and 4 of my girlfriends into those damned pants!