hi, and thanks for reading. While i never faced any outside criticize I am sure there were people looking at the fat guy in the pool and saying "what is fatty doing?"... which kind of goes back to how awful people can be. "Fatty" is trying to change his life and the only person that was criticizing him was himself and I think that is ok. I'm sorry that people were mean to you... they never were to me, but that is probably because i was over 200 lbs and I live in Asia where everyone is a lot smaller than me. haha