First experience ever, seeing someone fat. Hi FPH, I am quite new here, and this is my first actual post. Sorry if it's a bit boring or too long, I will do better in the future! I have a small story for you, that I experienced recently. Before that, however, some background on me: where I come from, you rarely see fat people. Most of them look fit or at least average. For this reason, I haven't ever been bothered considering people as being fat or being disgusted by that, until now.  Recently that I moved to another country, I was baffled at the numerous fat people that are here. I have read all your stories, saw the pictures, but it's different when you see it in real life and experience the shock! Now for the small story:  I went to a shop recently to buy groceries. Near the frozen foods, I saw the fattest person in my life. I am really bad at approximating, but she was maybe around 170 cm (~5'7") and weighed at least 150 kg (300 lb). She was wearing tight pants (maybe not on purpose, because anything would look tight on her), and they were just above the knee. I have never seen someone before with no visible knees, and her calves were bigger than my thighs. I stood in shock, looking for a few minutes. She was leaning beside the fridge with frozen foods and looking around. I took a quick glance at her shopping cart, it had 2 pizza boxes (they have 2 pizzas in each), a bag of frozen fries and a few cans of diet coke. I left the area, and saw her later looking at the sweets and chocolate shelves. She was breathing heavily and it was really noticeable.  I left the shop wondering how is it even possible to let yourself go so much, to the extent of not breathing properly anymore? At my highest weight (130lb), I started experiencing some back pain that was only cured by exercising quite regularly. It is insane to just imagine someone would rather feel a lot of pain and be exposed to numerous conditions caused by obesity, rather than just do something about it.  TL;DR: Saw the fattest person in my life, I come from a background where you almost never see fat people, ever.