This thread is a trigger for me so I have been trying not to visit it, but I thought I would let you know that I support you and I do think you have been bullied here, and I don't doubt if weight is an issue for you, you've experienced discrimination and bullying about it in real life, too.

This thread is a trigger for me because my mother, who had an eating disorder among many other woes, used to abuse me about my weight (among many, many other faults she found in me). I was never thin enough. I grew up feeling enormously fat and worthless, guilty about every bite of food I took in. Not too long ago I came across some photos from those years and was shocked to see that I wasn't fat as a kid, not by a long shot.

I've learned that some people are not nice people. Some people are bullies. Some people will cast around desperately to find a weapon to use to wound others. And weight is (still) an acceptable weapon, much to the shame of anyone who uses it against other people. Here where I live it is no longer acceptable to torment someone for being non-white, foreign-born, of a different or no religion, gay, lesbian, transgendered, or disabled.

Maybe you are thinking "but no one should torment anyone over those things!"

No one should be tormented, not even slyly, by quoting statistics about mortality or morbidity, or the latest thinking about portions and exercise, about their weight.

I think Permanent had a good idea with this thread.