Did fat-shaming help you?

The only reason I started losing weight was because of how people treated me. There were other reasons after that, but the first main reason was because I got bullied. I put on a lot of weight over the first COVID lockdown - like 17kg (or 37lbs for Americans) - and when I went back to school people just ripped into me all the time about it. I felt like all the faults I tried to hide were on the outside of my body for everyone to see. It made me really angry for them to point it out, but also, if I didn't have faults at all, they'd have nothing to bully me for. Because of that I then lost all the weight, eat healthier, learnt to run and go to the gym. I'm fitter because of the bullies.

I'm not saying they did the right thing to make fun of me, but it was also the consequences of my own actions and faults. The world is not such a place where people can just exist being fat and not made fun of. Someone out there will be horrible, even if it's not to your face. At least they were upfront about it and forced me to see I needed to make a change. Now when I think of how I got bullied, it reminds me not to go back to bad habits. I have a weird, bittersweet feeling with how the world treat fatter people. What are other peoples' thoughts?

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