‘Once you lose a little bit of weight, you’ll be fine.’ She probably didn’t even mean to make me feel rubbish, or maybe she did, but whatever the reason was, I just shrank. I went from feeling like William Large Penis, and being so proud of myself for getting out of my comfort zone and trying something new, to just feeling so small and pathetic. In one fell swoop that woman had reduced me to nothing more than a clothes size and all of my old insecurities came tumbling back. Instantly I felt fat, and not attractive enough, and wondered why any man would want to look at a photo of me in a
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