He’s a rude sumuvabitch and I’d rip him a new one behind that nonsense.

On the one hand, I know I am fat. I knew I was fat when I was fatter. I knew I was morbidly obese and that despite that, I lived my life doing many of the things I wanted to do.

I remember going to the doctor and mentioning some issues I was having, only to have her look back and me and say “you know, half of these problems are due to your weight.”

I was so angry with her. So disgusted. I never went to see her again as a result and spent the next couple of years getting fatter.

Then I had my wake-up call…and it was a wake-up call about nutrition, not weight loss:

The way I was eating was killing me.

You see, I was diagnosed with high blood pressure, and it scared the crap out of me. But once I got past the immobilizing fear, I started cooking, practicing portion control, working out…I started to get myself together. I just wish it hadn’t been a health scare to motivate me.

I have a friend who, when I met him, had high blood pressure, diabetes, sleep apnea and was going blind. He lost over 200lbs and has reversed all of that damage. He had no idea that managing his food intake, eating more vegetables and whole grains and less processed food, that exercising would have such a dramatic impact on his health. I had no idea it would result in that much change. The health scare didn’t motivate him, but something did. And the one thing he can say now that he’s accomplished this is that he refused to acknowledge his obesity and was willfully blind to how it affected his life.

So I get where this guy is coming from. It’s not about hurting your feelings. It’s not about being self righteous. It’s not about putting someone else down.

It’s about giving obese people a necessary wake up call, before emergency medical personal do it for them. Before they are so physically damaged and emotionally drained that it becomes impossible. Before they go and cut off part of their intestine and make vomiting a daily ritual, instead of the exception.

So yeah, I get it. The unfortunate part is that most people, especially the people who need the wake up call, won’t.

That’s what I’m saying. This “ticket guy” says he’s handing out tickets to “fat” people because of the adverse health effects of obesity. My point is that literally thousands of girls and women starve themselves (many literally to death) to conform to an unreal ultra-thin body image.

I belong to a health club and one of the instructors is a woman who would fit this guy’s definition of “fat” (she’s probably about a size 12 or 14), however she teaches at least 2 spinning classes a day and regularly runs in local 5K races.

i snapped back: “If you were six inches taller and had a full head of hair, you might be gorgeous too.”

to which he replied, with a hurt expression: “That’s not very nice.”

rude idiots… the world is full of them, and i don’t believe in cutting them any slack.

Would looooooooove to be there the next time one decides to knock him into the middle of next week.

So…..let’s hope he tries it and gets his undoubtedly skinny ass sued off.

Dead asshole.

Well, that seems like a perfectly reasonable response to receiving an uninvited comment upon one’s weight – vigilante summary execution. How could he not have it coming, opening his mouth and speaking his mind, all unenlightened as it is.

Yep, fewer unenlightened minds is what’s needed all right.