Email: Weight bias [EH]

No one should ever tell a stranger they should lose weight (however nicely they think they have couched it about the eyes, etc.). It's simply rude. There is rank anti-weight bias out there; one friend tells me people have wrinkled their noses at her and said out loud "Let's keep away from *that*!" Just move on; stop focusing on the negative and look for the positive. The negative will freeze you up and even kill you in the end.