Good for you, Claire! With - at least in the US if not UK - 2/3 of people being either overweight or obese - one in three are obese, it seems like there's an ever shrinking group who are hating on others. Many of the men (check out my "Dating over 50 - they look like Brad Pitt" article) who would put "slim" or "weight proportional to height" on their dating requirements were ... let's just say it probably had been many a year since they'd seen their toes. They are ignorant and hypocritical - being overweight is NOT anything to do with "willpower" or anything like that. It is mostly due to the foods provided to us, the environments we live in, and work situations, hating on fat people is just another cheap, easy, nasty and MEANINGLESS activity. You absolutely should feel and be happy and healthy and beautiful, Claire. Those haters? Losers.