This is truly disheartening, but to add on to what you were saying letsdance7, I have found to my cost (especially emotionally) that people who are overweight (like me) just get no respect from anyone else. People don't even treat alcoholics, drug addicts, or even serial killers as bad as they treat overweight people. Sure, they judge those people, but they still get respect. You don't get people going up to a serial killer in his jail cell and calling him names and mocking him, yet people do it with us, and so easily, it's so easy, they don't even have to think about it. Nobody takes you seriously in any walk of life either. For example, people think I am one huge joke and they don't believe I am capable of anything significant. If there is something that I am truly qualified to handle, they will choose 100 other people who can't get the job done instead of coming to me, and after all 100 failed, then they say it's time to quit at that task and move on, since it's not worth the effort apparently. Being overweight is not just about looks, it affects your whole life because of how people perceive you and automatically assume everything about you is useless simply because you have an addiction (which all thin people by the way also have, theirs is just to something different).