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Ever been described as "stocky"? How about "chubby"?
linhay33
Posts: 6 Member
I'm 33, short (5'2") and very overweight (207). If you're in a similar boat and have a good sense of humor, you should friend me.
Oh, and please share your favorite stories of how others told you how fluffy you were. My favorite?
1. When my (thin) boss told me that a customer identified me by saying, "I talked to the chubby one."
2. An ex-boyfriend's grandmother actually called me chubby.
3. At a festival where a booth was handing out free tee shirts, the (skinny) girl apologized and said she didn't have any shirts that would fit me - the biggest they had left were mediums. I felt my face fry at that one...
4. I now block the flow of water in the bathtub. I know this technically isn't anyone telling me I'm fat (unless you anthropomorphize the tub), but it hurt, dammit.
Oh, and please share your favorite stories of how others told you how fluffy you were. My favorite?
1. When my (thin) boss told me that a customer identified me by saying, "I talked to the chubby one."
2. An ex-boyfriend's grandmother actually called me chubby.
3. At a festival where a booth was handing out free tee shirts, the (skinny) girl apologized and said she didn't have any shirts that would fit me - the biggest they had left were mediums. I felt my face fry at that one...
4. I now block the flow of water in the bathtub. I know this technically isn't anyone telling me I'm fat (unless you anthropomorphize the tub), but it hurt, dammit.
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My 4 year old always asks me, when she sees me working out, "Mom, are you trying to lose your chub chubs"? And my nephews refer to me as the chubby Aunt! I'm 5'1 and started this journey at 238 and am now sitting at 183 slowly working my way down to 140! Friend me : )0
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lol i'm 5 1 and 163, used to be 217. I never got that said abt me, to where I heard anyway. But i used to work at torrid and I was being used as a point in reference to other chubby girlfriends that werent around. Their bfs would ask me for help bc i was abt their gfs size. :blushing: although according to one guy my rack was much nicer than his gfs. lol that needed to stop.0
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1st time I remember ( I was very overweight ) in 3rd grade. One of the boys in my class said" your'e not fat, you are pleasing Plump"
2nd one was my dear ex. You know I like having a good corn fed cow! ( I weighed 130 at the time) :drinker:0 -
27, 5'0, started out at 205.
I've been called everything in the book, from just straight fat to "well developed" to any number of things. They all suck, but only as much as you let them.
Next time someone feels the need to be ... impolite... just remind yourself that you can fix your body but they can't fix their personality.0 -
I had a boyfriend once when I was a teenager, his parents invited me to stay for dinner one evening, apparently his mother thought I didn't eat enough at the meal....she said I looked like I had a "healthy appetite".....I honestly think the poor boy was more embarrassed than I was!0
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I've been described as "fluffy" at one point in my life.0
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My mother called me her little butterball turkey.
And the next day I had created an account for MFP.
I had been putting it off before that moment.1 -
other then my ***** sister calling me fat because shes a low life and just wants something to try to cut me down with, i cant recall anyone else ever really calling me fat. but i know i am. ive just tried to embrace it and act like it doesnt bother me. im 5'9 and about 250. friend me!0
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I'm not short, (about 5'6" and 175lbs) but I have been called a great many things! My siblings as well as my father have called me "Thunder Thighs" on more than one occasion. In high school, there was this group of boys that would taunt me about my favourite black sweatshirt (I used to wear it all the time) and would say that maybe if I went jogging in my sweatshirt, I would sweat a lot of my fat out...I've had friends that I hadn't seen in years ask me if I was pregnant...Terrible!0
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Lolz. Chubby, stocky, fluffy, all-woman, thick-thick, I've heard a lot of those.
Got told once I should dress as one of the M&Ms for Halloween.0 -
Yeah, stocky, chubby, fat, chunky, tubby, husky and also called a "teddy bear" by my college GF's mother, kinda like that one though. :happy:
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5'3' and my heaviest was 80kgs. I got stocky, solid, well built, cuddly, the list goes on. My favorite though, is that I am "built for comfort, not for speed" which is kinda true, as much as I enjoy running I can't run out of sight in a week.0
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You know how people say "well she has a pretty face"
My manager told another coworker of mine "she's pretty but she would be prettier if she lost 20 pounds"
WTF kind of comment is that! He to some is a good looking guy and for some reason feels he can make those comments, Well I got him sent to sexual harassment classes!3 -
Ive heard it all since ive been big my entire life. Very rarely in a way to be mean though. Im way too laid back of a person to care anyway and most of the time i find it funny.0
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I am 5'2" and at my heaviest was 200. I have worked my way down to 178 and am still working. I have heard it all and in all contexts. Some thinking they are helping by being brutally and painfully honest and others by just being mean. I figured out a long time ago that I can only control what I do and what I say and how I feel. Now I can look back and laugh as well as look forward and laugh. Life is too short and precious to let someone else's ignorance weigh me down.
I think the one that makes me laugh the most now is when I was talking with a friend (in my early days of wanting to lose weight and get healthy) about getting in shape and she told me I was in shape...round is a shape.0 -
When I first started to put on a bit of weight in my 20s, my mum looked at me one day and said "Yes, you are getting a bit broad in the beam".
ETA better than the time a bloke asked me at work if I was pregnant0 -
I'm not short, but I was called festively plump (it made me laugh) and burleque (by a customer I was serving....it made me embarressed and I think she was coming onto me lol).0
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I have always hated being overweight, and have been unhappy with my body shape for a long time.
However all my friends make jokes about my weight, as do I. I wouldn't have it any other way.
I would hate to be the person that everyone is careful with, I can't bear people like that.
If a total stranger makes a comment, it depends how it's intended as to how I react. If it's a joke, and it's funny, then I laugh.
If someone is being condescending or plainly rude, then I tend to just ignore them.
I really do feel like life is too short to be bothered by stupid stuff like this. There are so many threads started on these forums where people are outraged by comments people have made, and I've never understood it, I have way more serious stuff to worry about.0 -
I put a picture on facebook and a weird aunt comented 'you've gone from chunk to hunk'
Didn't know whether to laugh or cry....0
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