But you forgot his misjudgement about socks..

I..uhh, am not really sure what to say about that. LOL. you'll have to forgive me(well, don't have to), but the first half of his comment really irks me, for the reason I gave about myself, and B: Because my wife has similar issues. Exercises for 2-4 hours a day, every day, and has been unable to lose more then 20lbs(I won't give her exact weight, suffice to say that she is overweight), and she eats almost no red-meat, a ton of vegetables, and roughly 1200-1500 calories a day. We believe(as does her doctor) that she has some kind of thyroid problem. The issue is, we are dirt poor, and cannot possibly afford to have it checked out in earnest. I am fed up with people making random snide comments(one day we were at wal-mart and we were walking across the cross-walk, and some woman in a truck was being really impatient, and as she drove by she shouted out "Maybe if you lost some damn weight you could jog across instead of waddling"), and the ignorant attitude that all fat people are fat by choice. It is an extremely sensitive subject for me.