What crosses your mind when you see an overweight person?

[Anonymous]

Let's say you go to a mall, or just sit ina cafe, or walk at the street. You are not busy, so you just observe the world and people around you, and suddenly, a really overweight person comes along. What's the first thing that crosses your mind when you see that person?

I am not trying to sound harsh here or judge overweight ( Fat) people in any way here, all I wanna know what is the immidiate perception of the society of being really overweight.

[Anonymous]

I know better than to judge. A cousin that I'm very close to used to be obese. For years she struggled with her weight, moving from one diet to the next, from one fitness plan to another, without any significant or permanent results. People were judging her, insulting her, she was miserable and lonely. Then she went to therapy for reasons unrelated to her weight but with her therapist she discovered that on some level, due to abuse she suffered as a child, she believed it was dangerous to be attractive or intimate with someone, that she wanted to keep people away from her with her weight, that she was unworthy of looking good or feeling good about herself. Once she made progress with dealing with her issues, she lost weight easily. It just sort of fell off. She didn't need to overeat or sabotage herself with food anymore. She never gained it again. I think people would have more success in losing weight if they dealt with the underlying issues (not saying that all fat people have psychological problems, but that sometimes being overweight is a symptom of something deeper).

[Colt40]

Now I'm a hefty guy but I'm not grossly overweight, I'm 6'4. 255lbs and I still find it disgusting when an extremely overweight person is eating a shmorgous board of food, or using a powered scooter at walmart. Even though I know I shouldn't think like that because I was raised better.

[Shameneyes]

hey, you are about the same size as the guy I like, but he has a lot of muscle mass as well

[Shameneyes]

nothing really until I see someone that is ultra fat and coming out of McDonalds, then I think aww, their heart :/

[Asker]

:/ yeah, its weird.

[antonlikesmlb]

At summerfest there is this sky glider chair lift thing and I once saw a morbidly obese person go on it. My friends and I just followed her chair around. So I think of it as pure entertainment if they are that big.

[MindPalace]

*hello, person. i like your shoes.*

[Anonymous]

How nice