To be fed up of being called fat?

[olympicblues]

My mum used to be very slim but has thyroid problems and is very overweight (22-24) and feeling bad about it, I am a size 12 - 14.

I keep getting comments about

"Your going like me"
"You need to go to x to loose your weight"
"WE need to do something about this weight"
" We look like two [insert fat insult here]"
Other fat insults.

Its getting me down!

hmcSun 19-Aug-12 23:06:53

Well i am only 0.4 into the overweight category (normal being bmi up to 24.9 and my bmi being 25.3 if that helps to explain it) but I am carrying a bit of flab - not a lot, but several pounds. Admittedly I don't look
'fat' when clothed but objectively I could do with being a little leaner. I agree with the poster who said that our perception of overweight has shifted due to the super morbidly obese

And our perception of thinness has shifted and become skewed because of certain tv prigrammes (like This Morning) When they interview women they always bring up the subject of looks and weight,tabloids and shitty magazines like Closer and Heat who ridicule women and ONLY talk about them in terms of their size or what they look like.

yes but we can all choose not to read that trash, or watch that trash (I have no difficulty with that!)