Shamed into losing 45 kg

[the_bob_delusion]

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/nicole-whitehead-was-shamed-into-losing-weight-after-humilia...

On what should've been a carefree trip to a theme park with friends, Nicole felt so much shame that it spurred the obese young woman to change things for the better.

It took three staff members to help jam her oversized figure into a roller-coaster seat. She was so humiliated that she didn't go on any other rides that day.

Now aged 23 and happily married to husband Jay, she has overhauled her bad habits, especially her diet.

"I used to have a few rounds of white toast with full-fat butter for breakfast. Now it's still toast, but wholemeal bread with cereals as well," she says.

Nicole says she had no confidence as a bigger woman and hated shopping for clothes.

She also had to go to the emergency room twice because her mass affected her breathing, which led to panic attacks.

But now she says her confidence is restored ... and she's not afraid to visit a theme park.

"After what happened at the theme park, I was so proud to be able to go scuba diving. I now feel amazing compared to what I used to be like and I'm so pleased with the achievement," she says.

So what's the moral of the Story?

[i-once-was-bump]

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@nevillesdaughter wrote:

I repeat - I was not urging anyone to do/say ANYTHING to overweight people. And to accuse me of believing that ANYONE'S God delivers messages to people about anything via violence, ridicule or abuse is offensive to me. It ranks right up there with "God made AIDS to stop homosexuality".

Marina.

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My questions were for freethinker because he was the one asking about God not sending signs to other fat people.

[nevillesdaughter]

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@i-once-was-bump wrote:

I was assaulted recently due to being "too fat".

The police had to become involved and the assault was by a total stranger.

Was that a sign from God? If so why did God deliver his message in such a heavy handed and callous way?

Or is it OK if it spurs me on to lose weight?

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Really, you weren't assaulted for being too fat. You were targeted by someone with mental/emotional issues - it could have just as easily been because you had white shoes on or whatever else the voices in his head said.

Marina.

[i-once-was-bump]

Marina I cannot repeat here what the person said to me before the assault and I can assure you it was all about my weight and nothing to do with your claim of it being voices in his head.

Do you usually dismiss assault victims in such a manner?

[Anonymous]

wow Bump, thats awful

[nevillesdaughter]

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@i-once-was-bump wrote:

Marina I cannot repeat here what the person said to me before the assault and I can assure you it was all about my weight and nothing to do with your claim of it being voices in his head.

Do you usually dismiss assault victims in such a manner?

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Again - I said NOTHING about you as a victim except that you were blameless. You said that your assailant was a "nutter" (by which I assumed that you meant he had mental health issues).

I was merely saying that in such a case the issue wasn't really about your weight.

Marina. 

[joz*garage]

Was that a sign from God? If so why did God deliver his message in such a heavy handed and callous way?

sometimes you got to be cruel to be kind

[mugssy65]

I think shame is the motivator for most to lose weight, it was me, well that and my health. I was embarrassed, I was self conscious and I was unwell, all great motivators!

[the_great_she_elephant]

Hearing voices is a symptom of schitzophrenia, but there are many other forms of mental illness which do not involve 'voices.' Bump's nutter may simply have had anger management problems and a 'thing' about overweight women. Maybe he'd just been dumped or humiliated by an overweight girlfriend.

[joz*garage]

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@nevillesdaughter wrote:

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@crikey*mate wrote:

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@nevillesdaughter wrote:

Only if you shame them righteously, kindness in your heart and good intentions.

Now stop trying to make me sound like some sort of crazed God-botherer, or I'll put a curse on you.

Marina.

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Go one better and pray for the redemption of his soul.

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Right now Crikey I feel like I should pray for my own redemption - if only I could work out what I did wrong.

Marina.

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its just bobs way with everyone, he can get on peoples nerves and thinks that hes a know it all

i see he didnt reply to you and explain himself, well, thats expected of him too - an ignoramus

[bluecat*dancing]

Bump, that is horrible. It would have been a very scary thing to experience.