“I don’t understand the mentality people who insist on making comments to strangers about their weight.”
I took a driving course and it discussed the personality type that caused the bulk of accidents. It was the punishing parent. I think this personality type is present all the time and we only recognize it in the driving realm. My dad had this personality type and he’d make comments about fat people. It’s an attempt to control what those people look like. (Ridiculous, I know.) It’s also a criticism which implies the person speaking is better than the person being criticized.
Surprisingly she never passed up the opportunity to make a comment about a person's weight. Not loud enough for the person to hear it, but always within earshot of the person she was with.
She was such a nice person, I was always shocked when she did this. The only way to explain this behavior to myself was to chalked it up to a subconscious fear she had of turning out like her mother.