The rudest thing anyone said to you about your weight?

He did you a huge favor.
Too often we kill each other with too much kindness.

My Doctor just told me all the medications I needed or I could drop 50lbs and take no medication.
I acted like I didn't quite know what he meant, and he blurted out "you're too fat!"

We need more of this and less fat acceptance.

I agree that we need less fat acceptance. I wish I had owned 1) a bathroom scales 2) a tape measure and 3) a full length mirror the whole way through college and I wouldn't have put the weight on in the first place. I never realised I was putting on weight. It took me a while to realise I was overweight and by then I was getting the rude comments.

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i disagree- this all just shows if you are rude, mean and cruel enough to a person- they might change themselves to look more pleasant to you/who ever said it. How many of these posts are people going on just fine and even happy with their day and all of a sudden someone feels is appropriate to be mean to them/ hurt thier feelings because they do not like the way they look.

I don't call it fat acceptance. its called keep your personal opinions about a persons body to yourself.

I'd like to go back to what I said a while back. I did not mean I am in favour of anyone commenting on anyone else's body in any sort of rude or offhand way. People should always try and avoid being rude and nasty, especially when there is no need.

All I was trying to say, in relation to the last post with what the doctor said, it was probably hard for him to say that, there is no easy way to tell someone they are overweight. In relation to those around me at the time when I put on weight, I probably needed to hear that I was getting fat, but not in a rude way though.

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Congratulations on your pregnancy!

I wasn't.

Some what the same but it was...Morning sickness??? I was at the grocery store buying ginger ale, and other things for being sick and I said "I'm not pregant, just sick, thanks!" She was dumb enough to put her other foot in her mouth to continue on trying to fix what she said by saying it was b/c of what i was buying, I on the other hand had the will power NOT to mention to HER that she needed to shave her mustashe!!

PS- I was and still am overweight but at the time I did have a hernia in my stomach and needed it repaired- this to didn't help that comment (hernia is now repaired and I haven't been ask that question since)

An old man bumped into me at Home Depot, turned around to see what he ran into, and exclaimed (loudly, for all to hear):

"YOU'RE HUGE!"

Mortifying.

"When are you due?" .....when I'm not pregnant. :embarassed:

Congratulations on your pregnancy!

I wasn't.

Been there! More than once. Way more than once...

I got this once when I was reasonably slim (I think it was the babydoll style but rigid fabric dress I was wearing). Anyway, at my new job a stranger asked me how far along i was then I said 'sorry?' thinking I misheard and she followed it up with 'There is no way you are that big and not pregnant. Hmm! Then of course I told her I wasn't an she was so embarrassed (but so was I!).

"You looked better when you were heavy/i like women with curves/etcetc" or "where did your boobs/butt go"? I realize they're not when I was at my heaviest, but after substantial weight loss, but the comments are infuriating none-the-less.
I hate the assumption that my body is open to commentary by anyone, and that weight loss has anything to do with men.
(The comments are from people that just have no business MAKING comments whatsoever.) Not to mention, it took time and effort and dedication and someone saying I dont look as good now pretty much disregards any effort put in!

My sister was always a little chunkier when we were little, where-as I was a toothpick. I love my extended family, but back then, they were clueless and cruel, and had my sister been much older, their comments could have been so damaging!
We were at the dinner table for a family gathering with my aunts/uncles/grandparents, and I remember them trying to force me to keep eating, when I was nearly puking. ("She's so skinny, she must not eat enough/needs to eat more/how can she be healthy?") My little sister, on the other hand, had food TAKEN from her, with a comment related to resembling the Pillsbury dough-boy. My grandpa, of all people, said it. S: I remember looking at my plate and trying not to cry for her.
My parents had enough at that point, and my dad went off at them. We were ages 5 and 7.

My boyfriend makes comments about "we need to work on that body" (referring to me). Which is fine and dandy. I'm 21, no children, and very little that genetically makes me overweight. I have no excuse for being so heavy, it was merely laziness and lifestyle and a lack of education on how to get fit. He's the only one allowed to comment though--since he will actually go and eat healthy with me and work out, etc.

Not sure what people said behind my back in high school, but I don't particularly care to know either.

I do remember that a gym teacher I had told our class that "if you can hold yours arms straight down from your shoulder and you make contact with another part of your body, you're fat". Had I been the person I am now, I'd have interrupted the class.
Pretty sure, women in particular, thin or otherwise, will touch their hips. What a horrible message for teen girls. 5 years later, and I'm still disgusted by his comment and HOW he still has a job!

Sorry, wall of text. Haha.

I can't say this was really "rude" as an 8 yr. old friend of my daughter said it. My daughter and I were talking about a bike ride that we had done and her friend turned to me and said "YOU ride a bike?". Ouch. Isn't it amazing how even an 8 yr. old's words can sting?

As I was eating Doritos, my sister's boyfriend at the time looked at me and said "I can actually hear you getting fatter"
After losing some weight I went to visit my grandpa who told me "You look good, last time you were here we thought there were two of ya"...I guess that was a compliment.
The worst I've heard was to a friend of mine though, her Aunt told her when she was nine "Boys don't like big girls" like she was giving her some grand wisdom.
People can be just awful some times

one of my ex's told me she was surprised she ever started dating me b/c she usually went for someone more toned, better looking. she continued with "you'll never be a calvin klein under wear model like <ex b/f name>" and that she deserved to be with someone she was attracted to.

a few months later i attempted suicide the first time.

Took my shirt off at work to change into my work stuff and the new guy asked when i was due.... and i'm a guy

The comment that really made me want to make a change was actually meant to be a compliment. While at a bar with my friends, 2 girls (who very well could have been drag queens...sequined dresses and wigs were involved haha) came up to us and said "You girls are so beautiful, not like these other skinny b*tches." I'm kind of ashamed of it, but it actually hurt my feelings! I've always been pretty small and in shape. I was always considered the "skinny friend" in our group. So although it was nice to be called beautiful..it was also the first time I realized I was no longer perceived as skinny to other people.

"have you got cancer"

When I go into special athletic stores and they look at you as if what are you doing in here,,

this.
And not to long ago a mother of a friend walked into our house, slapped my back side and said "Holy *kitten* what have you been eating, you need to cut it out, youre so fat"

Yea, that made me cry.

My little sister was so excited to be getting married, she starts telling me about the bridesmaids in the wedding and how they all had to be "BIG" girls to make her look thinner, the "fatter" the better....BTW you know you are a bridesmaid right?

My ex dumped me because I'm fat. You can imagine how it could break one's confidence and self esteem. It was the most painful one for me.

Are you serious?? what an AssH**e!!!

Yup, But it kinda jump started my weightloss journey. I dropped nearly half the amount of weight I want to and I ran into him recently. His reaction?? His jaws hit the floor and he said "You look really pretty". He's been texting and I ignoring..lol.Revenge is the best dish served!

He did you a huge favor.
Too often we kill each other with too much kindness.

My Doctor just told me all the medications I needed or I could drop 50lbs and take no medication.
I acted like I didn't quite know what he meant, and he blurted out "you're too fat!"

We need more of this and less fat acceptance.

I agree that we need less fat acceptance. I wish I had owned 1) a bathroom scales 2) a tape measure and 3) a full length mirror the whole way through college and I wouldn't have put the weight on in the first place. I never realised I was putting on weight. It took me a while to realise I was overweight and by then I was getting the rude comments.

xx

i disagree- this all just shows if you are rude, mean and cruel enough to a person- they might change themselves to look more pleasant to you/who ever said it. How many of these posts are people going on just fine and even happy with their day and all of a sudden someone feels is appropriate to be mean to them/ hurt thier feelings because they do not like the way they look.

I don't call it fat acceptance. its called keep your personal opinions about a persons body to yourself.

I agree with the above post. It's not fair to be cruel and mean to overweight people just because they do not fit into society's expectations! It's ok to have opinion but if its not positive, it's better not to be shared! Come on, people could obese for several reasons from being lazy to fatal hormone conditions. It's not fair judge anyone without knowing their story.

The world is cruel, and when we are fat, we are targets.

That's reality, so I can either lose the weight or suck it up.
I choose to be fit for a host of reasons, but one of them is that I don't want to be the target of people's inane jabs.