As someone who was formally fat, I can speak from personal experience, fat shaming does exist. People would stare, laugh and snicker as I walked by, I even had some moron shove a Mars bar in my face and said you'd probably enjoy this more you fatty. Whenever I'd order food I'd always get a judgemental glare from the server like 'should you really be upsizing?' I'd walk into a shop and no one would approach me, I'd always get served last. For the most part, society doesn't treat you like a human being.
Now that I'm 75kgs lighter, a whole new world has opened up. People are nice, I'm served first, I'm offered advantages I would have never received previously, I can eat whatever I want and not get judged for it or have people make assumptions about my eating habits.
Shaming works both ways tho, because although I'm now accepted by the broader community, I still get heat from overweight people. Not that long ago I was in doing my groceries and this obese woman walked up and said 'why are you only buying fruit and vegetables? Get some fat on those bones, you look ill'
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First of all, it’s clear this doctor has never heard of health at every size. But I calmly explain to him that at my job, I’m on my feet 4 hours a day and also explain to him the concept of me being comfortable with my body and also explain to him health at every size. Then this ****er has the audacity to laugh and say, “Health at every size isn’t true, and if you keep believing it you will eventually get fatter and suffer a heart attack at a young age.” At this point I had had enough and politely told him to “**** off.” I immediately walked out of the office and cried in my car for half an hour.
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Well first of all it seems this person is just looking for an excuse to justify their weight. Health at any size is complete ********, just like the ridiculous 'oh I'm big boned' excuse. Utter nonsense, there's no such thing. Unless you have a medical condition then you're overweight from overeating and lack of physical exercise.
