annoying weight related nicknames.

That's RIGHT!

My name is Sam. In my parent's circle of friends (all big nerds) it was popular to call me Samwise... Yeah. The fat hobbit. Not that any hobbit was particularly healthy, but Tolkien makes a special note of Samwise's tubbyness. It has always bothered me.

Then there were the basics in school, tubby, fatty, other basic things like that. I'd be less bitter about it if they had at least TRIED to be creative.

:bigsmile: Like Samwise, I'm a big fan of 2nd Breakfast!

2nd breakfast is something i would sign up to as well ! : )

Fluffy puff puff.....I tend to make fun of my weight first be4 others get a chance and so far its worked out good...ppl don't really tease, I tend to find girls who r jealous of my pretty face to call me bad names behind my back... but soon enough they won't have crap to say teehee

Big Red cuz of the red hair and obviously being big lol. and ONCE somebody called me Shamu. he won't be calling anyone else any names anytime soon. i made him cry. and i'm not talking about when we were little. we were both in our 20's lol

that's awful! in high school one of my friends poked me in the side and startled me at lunch and i fell off the chair (i had slippery pants on) and this other kid called me a beached whale. i thought he was my friend, but not after that! i ended up losing my temper and slapping him in our next class cuz he was bragging about it and my teacher made HIM apologize! he got his

Tubby, chubby, all woman, a lazy fat toad, and more recently someone called me flabby.

Thunder thighs and thick have been thrown my way.


When I was pregnant was the worst. I worked with the public and everyone felt it was necessary to inform me on how big I was.

One man told be I was going to need a wheelbarrow to carry my stomach around in. And I always got, Are you sure theres not two in there? I did gain 50-60lbs with each pregnancy but did I had 8.5-9.5lb babies in there, and we delivered each one 2 weeks early!

Whats funny is the heavier the person, the ruder the comment made to me.

My name is Sam. In my parent's circle of friends (all big nerds) it was popular to call me Samwise... Yeah. The fat hobbit. Not that any hobbit was particularly healthy, but Tolkien makes a special note of Samwise's tubbyness. It has always bothered me.

Then there were the basics in school, tubby, fatty, other basic things like that. I'd be less bitter about it if they had at least TRIED to be creative.

:bigsmile: Like Samwise, I'm a big fan of 2nd Breakfast!

2nd breakfast is something i would sign up to as well ! : )

I actually have my meals set up as the hobbit eating times, lol.

I have always been called out on my height. Midget, Tiny, Shortie...ect. The only nickname I tolerate based on my height is from my best friend Kat....she calls me Chibi Chan.

'A big girl'. I freaking hated it. I am also tall so it was used even before I had weight problems, and it really took it's toll on me.

Hi I got two I remember from growing up and they were both from family. One was stubby, cos I was short and fat like a beer bottle and the other was skin, cos I had so much of it. Sadly, my parents thought it was cute my brother had nicknames for me and didnt seem to notice how much it hurt.

The first one I remember, as a kid, was tub-o. I hated it! The other one I remember was thunder thighs. These were from people in my family! I don't know why they did this. Did they think it was funny? Did they think it would motivate me to lose weight? All it did was lower my self-esteen and make me feel awful.

I remember as a kid people saying we were "big girls." I look back at pictures, my sister had always been on the chunky side - but she wasn't a roly-poly. As for me, I wasn't a stick, but I was slender -- much like my daughter is. It breaks my heart to look at these pictures because I want to go back and tell those little girls how beautiful they were -- and that they aren't fat.

I also had a step-grandfather who always called us "boys" -- I don't know why, it was weird and I hated it. My father would call us ugly, lazy, or tubby.

As I got older, even when I was in high school weighing anywhere from 140-150 pounds people would say I was "big-boned" and boys would call me fatass. Again, I wasn't skinny at this weight, but I was curvy. I don't think teenage boys have the ability to appreciate curviness in a female.

Still today, I get really annoyed when someone says I'm "big-boned" just because I am obese. I am not -- I inherited my mother's genes, her side of the family is Canadian french and the women all have short and petite frames, and a few are overweight. My hands and feet are very small -- I have a friend who laughs at my tiny ankles. At least I'm thankful for that -- I don't have "cankles." LOL

One time I had a co-worker tell me I needed to put a "wide load" sign on my butt...

did you tell them they needed one that said "ignoramous"? of course they would need a dictionary

Idiot

When I was in 4th grade, I was about two times bigger than all the other kids. I weighed around 150 and was already 5'4", and to top it off, my mom cut my hair into a pixie when I was gaining weight, and it curled up, making me look like a boy. They would call me a "fat boy".

I was playing on the monkey bars one day, and I was doing the "tornado" where you hang on, lift your feet, cross them, and then swing your body in a circle. EVERYONE makes the bars shake when they do it, but this kid just HAD to point out that when I did it, I shook the bars even more than everyone else. :grumble:

Now that I'm older, some comments still hurt. I married into a family of 11 kids (my husband being the 7th), and out of those kids, there are 8 girls. about 6/8 of them are "bigger", meaning they are overweight, have wide hips or wide shoulders, or SOMETHING that makes them not "skinny". My in-laws always make the joke that my husband didn't fall far from the tree when he married me, because I am "built" the same way his sisters are. And I get told I look like his sisters solely because of my "body structure". :grumble: :grumble: :grumble:

All the more reason to get healthy and end the jokes!

When I started reading this I didn't think anyone had really called me names until I kept reading then all of those suppressed occurrences came flooding in.

Dad called me lardo.
Mom called me heavy or fat.
I was called a pig and taunted with snorts.

I have never had perky breasts and probably never will w/o the bra assistance and I had girls giggle and say in unison "saggy for life!!!" ouch.

My MIL thinks I'm friggin huge.
My husband calls me big curvy woman I have mixed feelings about that one

When I was REALLY little (and it was thought of as "baby fat") my mom called thighs "thunders", so when I tested for Kindergarten (which I got to skip) the only question I missed was my "thunders." I knew my fingers, toes, hands, and feet. My mom stopped saying it after that. Now it's really funny to think back on. Of course, shorty was always in the mix as I didn't hit 5 feet tall until senior year, but that wasn't really hurtful either since my shortness was distinctive, plus I wore a trench coat which I think probably helped.