So pissed at a childhood friend Let's call my friend Sheryl. Sheryl was always a big girl. I'm not talking a little chubby, but she was tall and obese. I remember hanging out with a kid that transferred to my grade school and we were looking at some of his old class pictures. He pointed to a pic of Sheryl who was standing in the back. He said something like "See that girl? She's not standing on the risers. She's massive."  This was back in the early 90s where kids/teens were mostly human size.  I met her in middle school through band camp, and then we went to the same high school. She was ALWAYS bullied about her weight. In the halls people would do impressions of her as she walked by, make comments to their friends just loud enough for her to hear, etc. She hated it and said that she couldn't change because she's always been big.  I didn't know much about her home life, but this comment made me think that her whole family must have been like this.  I'm still friends with her on facebook, but we haven't talked directly in over a decade. She now has three daughters, and they're all obese. They look a LOT like how I remember Sheryl looking when I first met her. From her fb posts, they're getting bullied as well. However, she also makes posts about her trips to the pediatrician. She posted a scathing comment about how the doctor wants to "starve" her kids and there's "no way in hell she's feeding her kids salad." That made me want to wring her meaty neck. She KNOWS how much bullying hurts. She has ACTIVE CONTROL over what her kids eat. If her kids lost weight, they wouldn't be bullied anymore. Why doesn't she see that??? Why has she set up her kids for the same miserable childhood/teenage experience that she had??? I want to say something, but I just know it would fall on deaf ears anyway.  On her fb posts all the comments are from her obeast friends who  affirm that she needs to find a different doctor and tell about their own "horror" stories of doctors telling them that they/their kids need to lose weight.  Has anyone been in a situation like this and actually gotten through to someone?