Just thought I'd write to you all to get your opinion. Basically I am pretty seriously overweight. I have managed to lose 22 kilos in the last year but still have at least another 40 to go, so as you can see my situation is pretty bad.
I have been on a constant diet for the last year in an effort to improve my health (mainly as I was sick for 4 years and didn't want to go through all that again) and as a secondary consideration to lose weight.
Anyway, today I didn't bring in my lunch so went down to the cafe attached to my work to buy something. I was good and bought something healthy. On leaving the shop I noticed some construction workers from the building next door were sitting outside of the cafe and kept on walking the opposite direction back towards my work. As I got just a few metres away (and clearly within hearing distance) one of them yelled out "That *** should have it's own postcode!". Of course, all the other construction workers just started laughing. I turned around to see if he was talking to me, and since there was no other "fat" people around, I can only assume that it was. It was further confirmed to me by the fact that they broke out in laughter again as I turned around.
I want to know, do people really think this is acceptable behaviour? I mean, I can't believe that in this day and age that anyone could possibly believe that that is an acceptable way to behave. I was absolutely mortified, not only because it is a humiliating experience to have had, but also for the fact that there were a few people from my work around who would have also heard the remarks and so it might just become a joke about me at work. I really wish now that I had gone back and confronted the jerk, but unfortunately that's not what I do, and I don't honestly know what I would have said anyway.
You may think that this is a one-off and that I should get over it, but I'm telling you that this kind of thing happens to me all too often. When I was at my largest it was at least once a week, now that I have lost a bit it has reduced to only about once a fortnight and each time it happens I usually just walk away thinking its not worth it.
The only time I have ever stuck up for myself was when there were two guys just up the road from my work and one said a very unkind remark to me as I was walking past him. I immediately stuck out my leg and tripped him over. He landed on his face and ended up with a blood nose. I don't feel this was necessarily the right thing to do, but it was my gut reaction. His friend found it very amusing anyway.
Anyway, I don't want anyone's sympathy, I just want to know if this kind of thing ever happens to anyone else, cause right now I feel very alone and depressed.
Thanks for reading,
Luckyone
I have been on a constant diet for the last year in an effort to improve my health (mainly as I was sick for 4 years and didn't want to go through all that again) and as a secondary consideration to lose weight.
Anyway, today I didn't bring in my lunch so went down to the cafe attached to my work to buy something. I was good and bought something healthy. On leaving the shop I noticed some construction workers from the building next door were sitting outside of the cafe and kept on walking the opposite direction back towards my work. As I got just a few metres away (and clearly within hearing distance) one of them yelled out "That *** should have it's own postcode!". Of course, all the other construction workers just started laughing. I turned around to see if he was talking to me, and since there was no other "fat" people around, I can only assume that it was. It was further confirmed to me by the fact that they broke out in laughter again as I turned around.
I want to know, do people really think this is acceptable behaviour? I mean, I can't believe that in this day and age that anyone could possibly believe that that is an acceptable way to behave. I was absolutely mortified, not only because it is a humiliating experience to have had, but also for the fact that there were a few people from my work around who would have also heard the remarks and so it might just become a joke about me at work. I really wish now that I had gone back and confronted the jerk, but unfortunately that's not what I do, and I don't honestly know what I would have said anyway.
You may think that this is a one-off and that I should get over it, but I'm telling you that this kind of thing happens to me all too often. When I was at my largest it was at least once a week, now that I have lost a bit it has reduced to only about once a fortnight and each time it happens I usually just walk away thinking its not worth it.
The only time I have ever stuck up for myself was when there were two guys just up the road from my work and one said a very unkind remark to me as I was walking past him. I immediately stuck out my leg and tripped him over. He landed on his face and ended up with a blood nose. I don't feel this was necessarily the right thing to do, but it was my gut reaction. His friend found it very amusing anyway.
Anyway, I don't want anyone's sympathy, I just want to know if this kind of thing ever happens to anyone else, cause right now I feel very alone and depressed.
Thanks for reading,
Luckyone