if being about 30lb over weight is being fat I can't say i ever experiences any crude rude remarks. mostly just your put on some weight or what have you been eating?

May 30 lb don't qualify I guess being obese is a right royal pain all around But no matter what the scientists say i do know people who eat a very modest diet and are very overweight. I don't really see why anyone should want to make remarks about someone else's weight is it really anyone else's business?
Any how although I've lost about 20 lbs being 30lb over the scale is beginning to seem almost normal now

Fat people, America's latest pressure group

By Harry Mount Last updated: June 20th, 2010
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Elvis Presley, before his genetic inheritance kicked in (Photo: AP)
The New York Times is reporting that Americaâs fat people are one of the countryâs last victims of prejudice. The paper says that the stigma against them is intensifying.
âYou can do incredibly discriminating, hurtful, hateful things to fat people in public and not only get away with it but be seen as some kind of superhero,â says Marilyn Wann, the author of âFat? So!â.
Not true. I lived in New York for a year and a half â which has its share of overweight people, alongside the Sarah Jessica Parker stick insects â and I never heard anyone being rude to a fat person; these days, the land of the free is the land of the extraordinarily polite.
In any case, given that two thirds of Americans are now overweight or obese, thereâs comfort in numbers. And thatâs part of the problem â there are so many fat people in the country that to be fat is to be normal. In fact, it would be rather good for those overweight people if there were a little more stigma attached to putting on weight; they might get a little thinner and healthier.
Of course people should be able to do, and eat, what they want. But itâs not right to set up fat people as part of some fabricated victim culture. In the New York Times article, the journalist Kevin Delaney boldly states that âscience mostly points to geneticsâ as the reason for obesity, as opposed to any personal failing. He adds that more and more people are getting fat. Surely both statements canât be true? Calling obesity a genetic fault is a wonderful get-out clause for the fat and guilty; wonderful, too, for those who want to set fat people up as victims of a new sort of racism.
What a patronising approach; and a dangerous one, too, for the child scoffing his way to an early heart attack under the misapprehension that itâs all his genesâ fault. Itâs all eerily reminiscent of Peter Cookâs masterly response to the idea that Elizabeth Taylorâs weight was down to her glands, not over-eating:
âI know. Poor woman. There she is, in her suite in the Dorchester, harmlessly watching television. Suddenly her glands pick up the phone and order two dozen eclairs and a bottle of brandy. âNo,â she screams, âplease, I beg you!â but her glands take no notice. Determined glands they are, her glands. Youâve never known glands like them. The trolley arrives and Elizabeth Taylor hides in the bathroom, but her glands, her glands take the eclairs, smash down the door and stuff them down her throat. Iâm glad I havenât got glands like that. Terrible glands.â