"Skinny"

It's just a word. I don't really hate any words, except "slacks" because I just don't like the SOUND of it.

I just want people to say "damnnnnn"

Same here :happy:

The only thing to me worse than being told I am to skinny is when I was 248 pounds and everyone used to call me "Big Guy".

Does anyone else cringe when this word is spoken?!

I always picture a decrepit person on their death bed. Wouldn't you much rather be called fit/strong/toned/defined/muscular ... Anything else!?

What would you like people to say about you once you reach your fitness goal?

Would you settle for Wow!!!!!!!

Skinny doesn't really make me cringe.. now, "Out of the car long hair!" and "Make this easier on everyone, and tell us where it is." makes me really cringe.

Not a big fan of the word skinny myself. Everybody is starting to tell me how skinny I'm getting. At first I liked it because it meant they noticed, when I still struggle to see it when I look in the mirror. Then it started to bother me because I will never be Hollywood skinny (and I don't want to be), I like the idea that I'm curvy (in the appropriate places of course), it makes me feel sexy to think that I'm getting healthy and into shape without ending up looking like I need to eat something before the wind blows me over.

Does anyone else cringe when this word is spoken?!

I always picture a decrepit person on their death bed. Wouldn't you much rather be called fit/strong/toned/defined/muscular ... Anything else!?

What would you like people to say about you once you reach your fitness goal?

i really, really dislike "skinny." i want to be fit, athletic, toned, strong, sexy, HOT!

also....

SLACKS SLACKS SLACKS!!!

That's enough of your slackery, missy.

Fit, lean, strong, powerful, kickass, athletic... Let's go back to kickass. I wanna be thought of as kickass.

I've been skinny. I didn't like it.

Does anyone else cringe when this word is spoken?!

I always picture a decrepit person on their death bed. Wouldn't you much rather be called fit/strong/toned/defined/muscular ... Anything else!?

What would you like people to say about you once you reach your fitness goal?

I prefer "skinny" over "muscular," personally... I do NOT want to look muscular when I'm done with this!

Fit... toned... thin... those are all positive-sounding to me. Thin is my favorite, I think, but I have no real problem with "skinny" either.

Well, honestly, in our culture, commenting on a WOMAN'S musculature is likely to carry the connotation that she's unfeminine, even though a lot of men prefer definition (and a woman who has some energy!!), so, "skinny" is the best that people can come up with. Now, if someone says that I have a "skinny" *WAIST*, I'll be happy (I tend to have a waistline that's 10-12 inches smaller than the other two measurements to begin with). But, I can see not wanting to be called, "skinny," as a general rule. It tends to carry the connotation of either skinny-fat, or bony (with the associated lack-of-curve connotation that NO woman really wants to hear).

For me, I guess I take the connotation and the tone of the speaker into account. If they obviously MEAN it positively, I will take it as such.

For a man, however, being called skinny is generally an insult!