Trying to Leave the Gym of Shame

In any case, that was just a rant about how I feel about people fat shaming in a gym because it does happen. It's a real thing, at the gym and everywhere else.

I really wish I were as mentally and emotionally focused as you to come back with level-headed responses. I hope it doesn't happen at my new gym (or to anyone else, ever) but I will definitely keep the "Don't say it where I can hear it" line. Thank you for sharing, and I am sorry it has happened to you too

Most gyms in the UK you can opt out of the contract via a letter from your GP.

This actually sounds like a marvellous idea! My GP already has on record some severe pain I have on my left foot's arch. I am wondering whether I should tell him the whole story, or just try to get the letter. I really don't want him to think badly of me and say "if you can walk on it, why can't you go to the gym on it", especially since I am already enrolled in my new place.

This reads more like bad fat-shaming fiction more than fact. Sure one of these events could have happened, but all of them within 6 weeks of joining a new gym? Not once, but multiple times the OP was told to "move to the back of the class?" By a class instructor... because the OP was taking up mirror real estate? Is the OP the fitness version of Rosa Parks? C'mon, my trolldar is going off the charts at this point. And now 8.5 months later, the OP up and decides it's time to cancel the contract? Why not 9 months ago? It just doesn't add up.

I think you may have skimmed over/skipped a lot of my post/posts. It was not the class instructor, it was the members who wanted me at the back of the class, so they can look in the mirror when they work out.
And I want to cancel now because I recently moved out of the area and into a new place far away from there. Less than a month ago, I was still living very close to that gym and, as mentioned before, hoped to man up and go back. It also didn't make sense to go to a different gym (in my previous area) since I had already paid for one. I honestly thought -and hoped- one day I would be able to go back. Alas, it didn't happen.

Thank you all for the advise and support (what am I doing at 5:30am replying here? that's how stressed out I am over this situation, damn it) as well as the criticism. I accept it all, and completely understand the disbelief. After all, it was my first reaction as well. I was so very happy to have found that place, went to classes so many times per week at first (Zumba alone was 3 times per week and I really like it), loved the pool, but after the first couple of "incidents" I couldn't pretend it wasn't happening or it was just my imagination. I worked so hard when I was attending (had good results too) and it really made me feel like a complete failure when I finally stopped. You don't know me so you can't possibly imagine how I chastised myself for being "weak" and " a fragile little baby" and "if I can't get over it, I'm not worth a healthy body" and being a "failure". I was so upset for my lack of conviction at the end.

I am not the most confident person in the world (I'm overweight now, you can guess what this does to one's self esteem) but I draw the line at having to give myself a pep talk before going to work out. I am done blaming myself for every single thing that has happened to me that is beyond my realm of control. That's partly what got me into an overweight state in the first place. Yes you can argue that being overweight is within my realm of control. And I accept it and I am doing something about it. I just would like to do it in my new area, at my new gym, with a better environment.