I Wasn’t Fat Shamed Until After I Lost the Weight
I was not prepared for this
I’m someone who’s always loved food, and I eat a lot of it.
I’ve never been big enough to attract much scorn, but that’s most likely because I stand at 6’ 3”, which is a height that usually makes a lot of weight seem proportional to the height.
If I’m being really honest, it also helps that I’m a man. I have no experience with being a woman, but I read a lot of stories written by women here on Medium, and I’m led to believe that for a woman, being overweight attracts a lot of extra judgement from friends as well as strangers.
For me, I didn’t attract judgement until I dropped the weight, and once I did, people had something to say.
Being a tall guy with “meat on my bones”, people assumed I was healthy and happy at that size. I’m quite a loud and opinionated person, so people assumed I did what I wanted and was the prime example of balance, joy, and “living my best life.” When I started getting serious with my partner (who’s smoking hot in the conventional sense), people didn’t give it that much thought, either. My partner was the hot one, and I was the “nice” one; it just made sense according to romance mathematics.
