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So, I could rant all day really.  I lost 35 lbs 3-4 years ago and have been steadily putting it back on since then.  Over the past few months it has gotten to the point where I am officially fat again.  Here are my main gripes...

THE WORST THINGS ABOUT BEING FAT:

- The crap that accumulates in the bottomless pit you call a belly button.  What the hell is it?  Soap scum?  Body nast?  Intestinal ooze?  Whatever it is, it is gross.  Then when you try to get it out and it's all smelly....  God that is beyond gross. 

- Lying on your side and looking down at your belly as a whole seperate entity.  I swear I feel like I could just cut it off with a huge pair of scissors and be OK.  Probably goes out a good foot past my hips.  OK - maybe 8 inches, but still.

- The pimples you get between your legs when it is really hot and the friction between your thighs gets too much.  Ewwwww

- Looking at pictures in magazines of "overweight" people and realizing THEY AREN'T THAT OVERWEIGHT!!!  I was reading Self in the hair salon yesterday and they had a picture of a headless woman in a bathing suit (because really, she should be ashamed) above an article about being 300lbs.  There was NO WAY that this woman was over 250.  I weigh 195 and she MIGHT have been a bit bigger than me.

- Being on the meds that make you want to eat all the time and being all paranoid anyway and always thinking people are watching you eat.  And feeling like you have to give them excuses like, "God, I am so hungry, I had a peanut for lunch and a piece of toast for breakfast, so I can justify eating a burrito the size of a small child for dinner..." 

- OR, NOT eating that much and STILL being fat, or big or meaty or whatever.  So that you think people are looking at you and saying to themselves "That's all she's eating?  She must go home and eat pints and pints of Ben and Jerry's by herself." 

- Wishing you could go on coke or speed or something, because even you might kill yourself or spin off into some nightmare Mania-land, AT LEAST YOU WON'T BE FAT.  In other words, not caring about your mental health as long as you look good on the outside! 

Feel free to add your own.  ((((bloat)))) ;)

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--seeing photos of yourself when you were a teenager and realising that though you spent a ridiculous amount of time beating yourself up for being fat, you were in fact tiny

--seeing the size 10 pants hanging in your closet that you fit into just a few years ago with a healthy layer of dust

--listening to your friends bitch about "getting SO FAT!" because they are now *gasp* 132 pounds

--backfat and chunky trunk

--realising that when you stop dancing, your body keeps jiggling for another few seconds

--overhearing your "friends" saying that you could be really hot if you weren't so overweight

--foregoing sex because you don't want to get naked in front of anyone 

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ok, I just spit coke on my monitor from laughing...

**telling people you are not pregnant

**telling people that you just had the baby

**having to "take" your boobs with you when you turn over

**realizing your cat thinks those boobs are her special pillow and you'd better not turn over without her permission

**lifting the belly fat up in order to clean under the folds

**sleeveless dresses that have arm holes the size of a soccer ball-hey the arms are not that big, are they? hmmm...

**not being able to see your crotch when you are driving--just seeing the belly

**not seeing your feet--hoping they are on the right pedal

**sex? what is that?

Spike

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--Boob sweat.  Good lord, I hate boob sweat.

--wearing two sports bras to work out so that I don't knock myself out (though to be totally fair, i've always had to do this, even when i was thin.  i've got a big rack.)

--wedging into airplane seats that have somehow become fit only for an anorexic 5 year old. 

--adding insult to insult by having to stretch the equally miniscule seatbelt for the teeny airplane seat to it's maximum to pull it across your belly, ensuring you will have to pee within 30 seconds and then knock everyone in the face with your hips and ass as you walk down the teensy aisle to wedge yourself into the teensy bathroom that already smells like shit

...no, I'm not bitter at all.

OOOH!!!  --BUTTON UP SHIRTS!!  Make some button up shirts for girls with tits!  I can take an eye out simply by arching my back a nanocentimeter

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OMG I forgot about fat sex. 

How about trying to FIND your clit through the fat?  I can only open my legs so wide before they break you know.  "Pardon me while I use my hands to part the Red Sea of fat between my legs and my belly so you can find something to fuck!" 

OR feeling like your skinny boyfriend is going to bounce off into space orbit from thrusting you and your belly thrusting back. 

OR being in the middle of some decent thrusting and feeling halfway good until you look down and see the rippling effect of the waves of fat emmenating from your poo-naanie. 

OR imaging what your longtime BF must be thinking now that you got fat - "Damn, had I known she was going to get so fat I wouldn't have pursued her so hard..."

OR hearing the telltale sound of not only 2 bodies slapping together, but your thighs, belly, rolls, slapping together...

OR having to change from the low setting on your "Electric boyfriend" to the high setting just so you feel something through the ooze that is you?????

Goddamn it - I'm going out for sushi.

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----Having not just jeans, but 25 YEARS of size 10 clothing!  Honey, we're talking 3 closets full!!  I own bathing suits and ball gowns and wool suits and tailored trousers and they're all size 10.  And they all fit me less than a year ago....

----Walking past a store window, glancing at the reflection and saying: "Who's the big broad with the fat jelly-belly?  ooops....

----Buying my first-ever size 16 bathing suit.

----Knowing that I now weigh more than my best friend from college....and he's 6' tall!!

----Bending over to put my shoes on.  My stomach is so big it's hard to do this.

----I second the back-fat.  eeuuuwwwww

----It has been a miserably hot summer, but I refuse to wear shorts, looking like this.

The only good thing about it--for women of a certain age---is that the weight gain plumped up my facial wrinkles.  "She has such a pretty face.  Why doesn't she do something about her weight?"

olga the whale

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-having to buy briefs instead of bikinis because the fat rolls over the bikini top and folds it in half right when you are in the middle of having a serious converstaion with someone at work and you feel that "plink", and you just KNOW you have made a very strange face in response to the plink, and yet you can't readjust because they're looking at you funny for having made the weird face!

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From a fat man's view:

-- having your gut referred to as a dick-do...as in it sticks out further than your dick do.

-- jeans...goddamn things are made for skinny folks...fuckers.

-- pleats, I think I have said enough there.

-- knee, foot, ankle pain from running (despite being a fat tub of goo, I still remain active)

-- Acheiving the ultimate "short fat guy" status (this is where your waist is at least 4 inches bigger than your inseam) hitting double digits.

-- being called "big guy"

-- the looks of revulsion from tiny people...especially those snotty looking little stick-girls.

--and my personal favourite...spoken to me by my doc..."you are the healthiest fat person I know"

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Is this making us feel better or worse?

Hmmmm

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Depends...I always enjoy a good self-depricating joke.  Plus calling skinny people fuckers makes me feel good.  Come to think of it, calling anyone a fucker makes me feel good.  Fuckers.  Heh heh

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Fuckers is good. I like it. BTW, I lost 1/2 lb sitting here laughing. No one understands us.

-People you work with telling you, you have not gained weight. 40 lbs is not weight gain? Hell, I hate to see what is.

-Olga, ditto on the size 16. I'm starting to eye the 18's. Really starting to look good.

-Remembering protein shakes in the psych hospital to put weight on me.

-Not knowing how far along I look

-Can't get on the floor, can't get off the floor. A definate lose lose situation.

-Fat, swollen feet due to Lithium.

-Bras, period.

-The fucking heat dammit!

-Waiting for someone to yell out "Free Willy"

-Sitting here with my pants unbuttoned and unzipped.

-The fact there was a time my hip bones stuck out.

-Weighing 1 lb more than my 24 yr old son. He is 6"9". I'm sure people think I steal food out of his mouth.

-I've run out. No brain function left.

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Is this making us feel better or worse?

Hmmmm

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

well, I haven't laughed this hard in ages...With not At anyone.

and gimps (aka handicapped, cripples, disabled--f*ck that term!) have some pretty rauchy jokes too. note: I am a gimp. and I had to learn to find some humor in some of the things that happened or I would have gone crazy..oh, wait! I am crazy...a crazy gimp ;)

even though I have lost some weight, I still have problems...like the damn pouch of fat that hangs from my boobs to my thighs. kinda like a malformed kid hanging on for dear life...a kangeroo has nothing on me!

and I am doing my part in helping the economy.

who else puts deo under their boobs right along with under the pits?

cough/sneeze=pee

so using these personal hygiene products are keeping people working

Spike

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Oh, Spike--you remind me of the days when I worked for an organization of handicapped people, who despised that term and referred to themselves as "broken-necks."  They told hysterically funny jokes that I guess you would call black humor, and loved poking fun at themselves.

We gotta laugh at the fat.  I'm sort of getting used to it now because it's almost a year.  I still dislike it, but I guess the meds + menopause + less activity (depression) = FAT!

Hey, maybe we could get a TV program together:  "Makeovers for Fat Crazy People."

"Lovely hairdo on that woman---too bad she's so FAT!"  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

olga the blimp

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You know what I forgot yesterday---those red welts you get around your waistline from the too-tight pants or skirt.  Wear them all day, and guaranteed you'll get welts!  And they itch!!!

Libby, I remember seeing people shaped like us and my husband and I would say: "He/she is getting kinda portly." Well, I'm "portly" now.  Or Duck-shaped.  Bleh

olga

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Here's the letter I just sent to the Dr. Phil show.

I  belong to a forum for mentally ill people. We have been having a discussion that involves our weight gains due to the medications we take. A lot of us are menopausal and most have bipolar disorder. It just sounded like a Dr. Phil show. I believe mental illness needs to be addressed in this country as most of us are intelligent, creative people. Can you help us Dr. Phil?

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I think Dr. Phil is the devil.  Well, maybe not the devil, but pretty evil.  But that would make a good show.  Just mentally "interesting" and fat and the stigma and not being able to lose weight and people telling you that you can control the illness with diet and exercise.  Then he might piss off the Scientologists, not that we care or anything

One more thing that Olga reminded me of: 

Getting naked at the end of the day and seeing the impressions that your underwear/too tight clothes have made in the goo.  Hoo boy - those do itch.  And they don't even go away right away.  I put on this old pair of underwear w/o thinking the other day and instead of regular sides it had a string of fabric.  What made me think they were still going to fit, I have no clue, but I digress.  They were so tight and uncomfortable I had to look in the mirror to see what it looked like and it was like this:

(fat

(fat

  (fat

    (fat

      (fat

        (fat

          (fat

            --------- underwear trying to find my hip bones

          (fat

        (fat

  (fat

(fat

(fat

(fat

That is supposed to be a picture of the underwear cutting into my hippy fat and being REALLY painful.  Then what happened when I attempted to get them off?  They started ripping of course.  I couldn't help but find it sadistically sad and funny. 

It brings me at least a little bit of joy to laugh at myself, as long as it doesn't turn into loathing.  It's a fine line. 

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Wearing overalls because they're comfortable and then looking in the mirror and seeing a denim sausage staring back at you.

I'd go on the Dr. Phil show if I was allowed to plunk my fat ass down on his trachea and cut off his air supply for the entire hour.

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  I just reread this entire thread and laughed like hell. hooooo boy!

Wearing overalls because they're comfortable and then looking in the mirror and seeing a denim sausage staring back at you.
I hate the fact that my belly sticks out as far in the front as my ass does in the back.  I look like a duck.

cough/sneeze=pee
having to "take" your boobs with you when you turn over

having a serious converstaion with someone at work and you feel that "plink", and you just KNOW you have made a very strange face in response to the plink, and yet you can't readjust because they're looking at you funny for having made the weird face!
having your gut referred to as a dick-do...as in it sticks out further than your dick do.

the looks of revulsion from tiny people...especially those snotty looking little stick-girls

How about not being able to pick up a guy in the bar without drugging him because they are so obsessesd with the sticks???

Can't get on the floor, can't get off the floor. A definate lose lose situation.

I am totally dying here!!!!!

;)   :P   :)   B)

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Here's the letter I just sent to the Dr. Phil show.

I  belong to a forum for mentally ill people. We have been having a discussion that involves our weight gains due to the medications we take. A lot of us are menopausal and most have bipolar disorder. It just sounded like a Dr. Phil show. I believe mental illness needs to be addressed in this country as most of us are intelligent, creative people. Can you help us Dr. Phil?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

But none of us have any clothes that fit. How are we going to dress up all pretty and such to be on the show?

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Wearing slip-on shoes because tying shoelaces takes too much effort

Not only can I not see my naughty bits because my stomach hangs low, but neither can anyone else  (good thing or bad thing?)

When your dress size equals or exceeds your age

Not only looking like a duck, but walking like one too!

Taking a shower and touching both the wall and the shower curtain at the same time - with your hips.

One good thing is that guys *love* the tons-o-cleavage.

When friends bitch about being fat, and none of them are nearly as big as me, I simply ask: "If you're fat, then what the hell am I?"  That always shuts them up.

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UGGG! when I was up around 180-200 the worst for me was heat rash...under my boobs, between my thighs, behind my knees...I HATE to be itchy...besides already having a super low image of my self, that was the worst

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In fact, my worst things about being fat all revolve around my mother. She has a total terror of anti-psychotics and most psychiatric drugs as she blames them on my porkiness. She is a serious impediment to my treatment always harping "remember back when you were beautiful and thin". She actually said she would rather be mentally ill and off drugs and thin than sane and fat!  ;)   She wont let me eat anything and is always buying me books on the Atkins diet.

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the tons-o-cleavage.

omg .. this is the FIRST time I have ever HAD cleavage!!! i keep looking at it, like where the hell did THAT come from!?

going to work in my wal-mart knock around pants today because they are the only thing left that fits....

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blackbird - I vote for getting as far away from psycho mom as possible.  Or learnign to tune her out.  Other people's perceptions suck.  My mom cuts out articles about "How to dress to flatter your figure" and all that jazz and puts them in places where she knows I will see them.  She means well though. 

I was at the pool with my nephews today and the 3 yr old was facinated with my cleavage.  Didn't understand why there was water in between my boobs(in my cleavage).  Kept sticking his little fist in there.  Breast man in the making perhaps???

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UGGG! when I was up around 180-200 the worst for me was heat rash...under my boobs, between my thighs, behind my knees...I HATE to be itchy...besides already having a super low image of my self, that was the worst

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Yech!  I hate heat rash.  I hit my all-time high (so far) about six years ago, in Summer,... in Texas.  It sucked.  If I feel particularly huge now (at 280-290), I just get out a pair of my "GIGANTOR" pants and feel much better.

Tommy

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  • 3 weeks later...

I just realized something.

I eat when I'm depressed.

I've been eating a lot.

Therefore, my AD is not working as well as I thought it was.

Oooooh.....I don't like where this is going.

olga

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  • 3 weeks later...
  • 1 month later...

But skinny guys can never have this conversation:

"Portly, My Ass!  It says right here in the haberdasher manual that if my chest is 8 or more inches larger than my waist that I am...

ATHLETIC!!!

That's right! Me, my portly ass, and all are athletic.

Besides, now that Walmart sells huge sizes, I don't have to put up with your crap or pay $67.28 for an on-sale pair of running shorts (like anyone this big runs).

(muttering under breath) puny human..."

Tommy

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Having to get off a rollercoaster because the bottom belt wouldn't attach to the thing you pull over your head because my boobs and blubber were in the way.

Riding on a kid's ride (with my 3 yo) that has a button to make you go up and down and when you push the button it just makes this grinding sound because you're too fat for it to move.

Brushing your teeth and getting a black eye from the jiggling mass underneath your upper arm.

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From a fat man's view:

-- having your gut referred to as a dick-do...as in it sticks out further than your dick do.

-- jeans...goddamn things are made for skinny folks...fuckers.

-- pleats, I think I have said enough there.

-- knee, foot, ankle pain from running (despite being a fat tub of goo, I still remain active)

-- Acheiving the ultimate "short fat guy" status (this is where your waist is at least 4 inches bigger than your inseam) hitting double digits.

-- being called "big guy"

-- the looks of revulsion from tiny people...especially those snotty looking little stick-girls.

--and my personal favourite...spoken to me by my doc..."you are the healthiest fat person I know"

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dear lord, if i have to hear  that I am the healthiest fat person one more time it is going to make me crazy..lol...(er)

I cant stand hearing from the dick puppets "she has such a pretty face if she would only lose weight she would be georgous." She is my best frined, I guess she thinks she is helping.

I started off a size 8/10 at 135. I was happy there, took a long time to get there. But it was shortly after that that i was Dx and put on everything, in less than a year I was wearing a 28/30 actually mostly just X's because its hard to find clothes that big in numbers. ANd had jumped to 326. At only 5' tall this is just a mess. I am shaped okay, as far as having a big ass and huge chest to go with a significatly smaller waist, but i dont want to be this big.

Most of that ws the zyprexa, remeron makes me want to eat pyramids of sugar cubes. But since i made the switch to seroquel, I have been slowly losing weight. I am now down to 275. still huge but I Am happy I am no longer gaining. I would love to lose it all, but halloween is sooo flippin tempting.

I agre my cat like to sleep in the cleaveage she thinks is designed for her, when i sleep on my side, she literally trys to wedge herself between my boobs. and gets pissed when i move cuze she has to resituate.  Nothing sucks more than having hot and sweaty boobs with a hairy hot cat between them.

  Only plus, is No matter how much weight I have gained. I am still hypersexed. I think there si something completly sexually liberating about being comfortable with who I am, riding on top, and instead of thinking, OMG i am so fat and they can see me. Its more like, "thats right, you my bitch!" they are fucking me and not some skinny dick puppet.

  THE BONES ARE FOR THE DOGS, THE MEAT IS FOR THE MAN!

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Not being able to afford new clothes.  Having to wear a longsleeved shirt that was snug 20 pounds ago is like a turtleneck around your entire upper body.  I'm surprised my constant uncomfortable twitching and fidgeting didn't get me put on an anti-seizure med.

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1)back rolls

2)Boob Bulges

3)Going to the back of the store to find the Plus section

4)Seeing old co-workers who knew you when...

5)Looking in mirrors

6) dimples  -  no - not on your face!!!!

7) Control anything!!! Ya who are the manufactures really trying to kid  -  GEE  Honey you look like you lost 10 pounds in 5 minutes!! (I CAN"T BREATHE!!!)

Frosty

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Forgot one - not mine thank God.

Getting on a kiddie ride with your daughter at the fair and being asked to get off

because the ride won't lift off because you weigh too much!!!  HOW AWFUL!!!!

;)   :)   :P   :ninja:   :ninja:   :angry:

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4)Seeing old co-workers who knew you when...

I can so relate...I was at a fast food restaurant with my kids and saw a woman I worked with about 8 years ago.  I used to weigh about 125, size 6, when I worked with her.  Now I weight 200 and my 18's are tight.  I called her name and she just got that frozen polite who-the-hell are you smile.  I reintroduced myself and added, "...you last saw me about 70 lbs. ago" and then she finally realized who I was.  So embarrassing.  Now if I see someone I knew from before I was fat I just ignore them. 

Other stuff I hate about being fat:

--having three chins.

--having any photographs taken of myself.

--having friends and family members LIE to me and tell me I look nice in said photos and deny that I have three chins.  My eyesight is fine even if I am crazy.

--knowing that even if by some miracle I ever lose this weight, I will still look like shit because I will have nasty saggy stretchmarked skin hanging down. 

--knowing that I am not attractive to anyone of the opposite sex,  not even my own husband.

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Back fat...

how about armpit fat!

Now, people used to say that Jennifer Anniston was "fat" when she weighed 130 pounds. HUH? I would give my eyeteeth to weigh 130 lbs.

You know what really sucks?  I spent three months last summer getting back down to a size four, only to find out I was pregnant. The baby is five months old now and I'm officially back to a size 14. Thank you very much Symbyax. (which I don't take anymore...am on Wellbutrin and Lamictal but still stuck at the same weight.)

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I went to Wal-Mart to get some cheap jeans to wear to my appointments cause my jeans didn't fit and cold weather was coming. 

Size 44 waist jeans cost more than size 42!  So not only do you feel bad you gotta pay more.

And the jeans don't stay up.  I tighten my belt but they just slide down all the time.  I  guess that's what suspenders are for. 

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