I was fat-shamed at the gym when a guy told me to lose a stone by ‘eating less’ because my body was ‘carrying water’
A WOMAN was left fuming after she was fat-shamed at the gym, with the man going on to offer her dieting advice.
Danielle was sitting in the gym, concentrating on her workout, when a man off camera suddenly said: “You’ve got some size to you!”
“Yeah I put on good muscle mass over this last year,” Danielle replied in the exchange that she caught on a TikTok video.
When he advised her to lose “20 pounds”
“That’s what I’m gonna do is like 20 pounds,” she replied.
“I’m gonna do bodybuilding in October, yeah 20 pounds would be fair.”
The man then asked her how much she weighed, to which she replied 204lbs (14 stone 6lbs).
He then said that “you get like 180”, referring to the acceptable weight for bodybuilding, telling Danielle it’s “doable” to lose 24 pounds before October.
“You just need to be in a deficit really,” he continued.
As Danielle, replying literally with her tongue in her cheek, replied: “So that’s how you lose weight?”
“Well you know obviously, yeah, you gotta eat less than what you’re burning,” he carried on, apparently unaware of Danielle’s sarcasm.
“S**t really well the drinking I don’t… you’re holding probably a s**t ton of water so if I had to guess.
“And maybe not drinking enough water,” he added, completely contradicting himself.
“S**t oh really?” Danielle said.
To which the man said: “You don’t have to eat glass, just eat clean.”
“Wow,” Danielle replied, getting up off her stool as she told him: “Yeah I got it, I got it figured out.”
“I can’t believe this happened,” Danielle captioned her video.
And people in the comments section were equally outraged by the man’s remarks.
However, while many of them admitted they would have had more of a violent response to the man, Danielle said in another video that she was “kind of dumbfounded in that moment”.
“I just kept giving him the opportunity to self correct, but it just kept spewing out, and I was like, ‘What the actual f?'”
She also revealed that another woman, who she used to work with at the same gym, had then come forward to say that he’d done the same thing to her – telling her to do more cardio, lose 10lbs and tighten up.
Danielle added that she has already lost tonnes of weight, and couldn’t figure out “what world” the man was in that it would be ok to ask women their weight, what they eat and their workout plan.