Fed up today

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I’ve been on wegovy since last November, I was desperate for something to help kick start my weight loss. Have lost 2.5 stone since I started it. Current weight 16’8. Anyway I’ve stopped this month as simply can’t afford it anymore. Been continuing with healthy eating and lots of walking. I’ve been determined to keep going and have been feeling positive and happier with the way I look. Under no illusions that I look great but was feeling much more confident.
This weekend I went to support my team, we get a supporter bus and have done the same bus for many years. This is always good fun, I sit with my friend and my dp and adult dc’s sit with their friends.
A couple who are friends of friends are also on the bus. We usually have a chat and it’s always fun and full of laughter.
On the return journey the husband got back on the bus, he’d been drinking a lot. Most people had had a drink but he was definitely worse for wear.
On the journey we were chatting, he was extremely loud and leaning over the back of his chair to face me and my friend. After a while he commented on what I was wearing and said in a booming voice “you need to slim down, you look like a linebacker”
I wanted the ground to swallow me up. I felt a horrible prickle of embarrassment and didn’t know how to react. My friend basically told him to wind his neck in and he carried on chatting about something else and I sat there feeling so so shit. When I got ready to go out I was feeling pretty happy with how I looked.
Now I feel awful, every time I look in the mirror I want to cry at how disgusting my body is.
My friends son told me after we got off the bus that he’d heard it and thought he was extremely rude and gave me a hug. I’m so embarrassed at the thought of the whole bus hearing it. My dp said he didn’t hear it as was watching something on his phone.
I keep asking him today if I really look that bad, he’s been lovely telling me no I don’t and he’s really proud me.
I know I shouldn’t let this drunk man get in my head but he has. I’m just thinking what’s the point in trying anymore.
Hoping a few days distance I’ll not feel
so bad but at the moment I’m so despondent.
Please give me some help to block out the negativity in my head.

I don't know what it is about certain men, but they pick up insecurities and like to exploit them. What a horrible knob.

I would love to tell you to message him / his partner and request an apology. But in reality, it's probably better to just draw a line, don't let it derail your amazing progress and focus on feedback from people who care about you.

He is clearly a very unkind, nasty arsehole, but he will always be that. a. Your weight has nothing to do with how you are as a person and b. You can change your weight, he can't change his arseholeness.

I bet that if you challenged him he would turn very nasty. But again, he's stuck being what he is.

That’s a really, really shitty thing of him to think but also to say out loud. What a knob.

You’ve done really well. Losing weight is bloody hard on every level, and you’ve done it and are continuing to do it. Please don’t let this idiot ruin all your hard work, confidence and your determination, which as you know is so hard won. Now you’ve had a day of feeling a bit shit about it, could you turn it into a bit of a motivation to keep going, just to spite the idiot?

Don't acknowledge him from now on. This will annoy him. My dad was quite blunt a few years ago saying I needed to lose weight. That made me more determined to.