WeightWatchers My best friend came over to stay with me recently; she's 5'8, 140lbs, and is looking to lose weight so that she can get pregnant, so that the new lower number is her "pre-pregnancy" weight, not 140lbs.  Let's call her Ally. Her sister also came with her, 5'7 and maybe 135lbs. Let's call her Betsy.  Ally and Betsy signed up for Weight Watchers maybe 2 months ago (back then, Ally was 150lbs and has since lost 10lbs, and Betsy just got engaged so she joined Ally in WW - these sisters are inseparable lol). The regaled me with how every time they walk into their weekly group meetings, all the other obese participants look at them with pure hatred, and with burning questions: "WHY ARE YOU HERE?!" They have sob stories about how difficult it is to keep track of things, and how hard it is to find time to exercise; meanwhile, every week, consistently, my two friends are dropping 1-2lbs (healthy weight loss for the win).  This last week at their group meeting, their group leader (a former fatty who is now skinny) wasn't there to mediate and make sure that conversations didn't get out of hand, and the hatred toward my friends was turned up tenfold. They kept glaring at them, making passive aggressive comments like "SOME people just don't understand what it's like to live in a bigger body..." and "all bodies must be different, I'm not doing anything differently than SOME people, yet THOSE people are losing weight consistently!" Because god forbid someone wants better themselves, even if they are in the normal BMI range already ...