Fat experiences

I totally relate to these types of commercials or magazine articles for weight loss. This one rang volumes “hydroxycut” the woman was in a bikini while she gained all her weight and after. Seeing her walking in the commercial with her beautiful figure amazed me. She was probably only 20-30 pounds over weight but societal standards and all I could think about was her gaining more eight and getting fatter and how much sexier she would look.

Agreed that the before pics are always the best when it comes to seeing someone’s weight loss comparisons. They usually look better fat :-)

When i was in MS i had two times that i was a "victim" of FA and encouragers.
1. My sister caused me to gain some weight because i was mean to her chubby friend. it was probably only 20 lbs or so.
2. also in MS I had a crush on a man who gave me lots of candy and debbie cakes and encouraged me to eat. he said he made him happy. He was careful to not allow anything sexual to happen between us. Mom, stepped in when she saw how much weight i gained my 7th grade year and locked me down pretty tight. everything she did made me worse.
but she found my stash of snacks and did daily sweeps of my room. She never found the Trac phone he got me though. I still have it.

2nd grade watching Violet blow up in Willy Wonka. I remember feeling odd when watching that scene.

Funnily enough for me it was the fairly odd parents episode but its kinda spiraled out from there in all honesty

I was around seven or eight years old and I wanted to be fat just like my two aunts; because they would have eating contests. Both of them weighed over 300-lbs. Now, I ended up fat.

over the last 20+ years i've talked to a whole lot of people in this community, and i agree with you calling this a "cliche," both seem very common for many people.

the other that i have heard from many is seeing weight loss advertisements with the before/after pictures, and reversing them, lol!

It's really funny how often this has happened. I remember my favorite episodes of any cartoon growing up were always the weight gain episodes.