[Andi]

I absolutely hate weight prejudices. I was stick skinny until I "filled in" in late puberty. And now I´m still borderline underweight according to my BMI, but I don´t look underweight or anything anymore. I think of myself as "curvey skinny" lol
Most of my extended family ranges from slightly overweight to obese. I was constantly teased as a child, and now still am. They make comments like "How are you ever gonna get a boyfriend, guys like a big chest and some curves" and "Oh I bet all you young girls do is count calories all day". So apparently they think I live off Tic Tacs, so they constantly offer me food. They literally stuff me, which I love though, I love to eat.

Even though I have never been fat and probably never will be, and even though I have few overweight friends...I still hate the way some people talk about overweight people. I even don´t like to use the word "fat" because it has such a negative tone to it. The word "fat" goes in hand with being lazy, and eating junk all day...at least that´s what´s IMO being associated with it.
And being in med school I have even heard a lot of doctors talk badly about overweight people behind their backs. That´s really worrying, imagine you´re overweight and very self conscious about it and now on top of everyone else you also have to worry about your doctor talking trash about you as soon as you´re out the door!
Extreme obesity is not an as big issue as it in the US (yet!), so it´s really disgusting to see how some doctors are almost fascinated with a really obese person. I´ve heard this one doc say "oh we have this new patient who´s having surgery tomorrow. Go check her out, she is freakin huuuge, she might just break the bed" and he laughed like he just told the world´s funniest joke. Eww, that comment made him seem soo ugly ya know?