Weight Loss: Weight Discrimination.

In my office we have note in the kitchen that says that we have rights not to be discriminated by race, age, gender, or disability. That sounds fair, but what about weight. Have you ever been discriminated by anything, or at least stereotyped?
Discrimination by weight, especially against women is getting more common in our country. Few studies proved that this problem exists and becoming very common. This is interesting that discrimination happens “especially against women”. Women genetically more prone to gain weight, we give birth to children, getting huge during pregnancy and suffering losing wait after having baby.. Some of us never lose baby weight, like my mother for example. How people can discriminate us for being overweight?
I know one very smart woman. She is the most brilliant system analyst I ever worked with. She is also a very hard worker. She designed many very successful systems for her clients. She was working for many years for one of the software companies. Her father started to get health issues and she had to move closer to him. Because of that move her commute doubled, so she started to look for a job closer to her new home. Her resume was brilliant, and her references were flawless. She is super nice person and has great communication skills. She had tons of calls, she passed hundreds of phone interviews, she had hundreds of interviews in person, but she didn’t get any offers. The problem was that she was very large woman, I mean very large. I’ve never been this large. We talked about that, it was just a theory; we didn’t have any prove of that. Somehow people tend to stereotype others with extra weight. They think if person is fat, that means person is lazy, or stupid.. In their mind our size is opposite to size of our brain,, or working abilities. Did I mention that system analysts are usually sitting on their butts performing strictly intellectual job,, They also need great communication skills to be able to have good relationships with clients and translate everything to technical language for technical people. How in the world size could be related to those qualities? As much as I concern big butt, would probably help: it is more comfortable to sit on one sport for long time, then on skinny butt with sticking out bones.
Well after 6 months of struggling she decided to lose weight. It was her long term motivation; her career became very strong motivation for her. She succeeded! Guess what? She found the job very quickly ones she became 140Lb lighter. Our theory was right.