Anything Good About Being Fat?

I should just wrap quotes around just about everything Holly just said except I liked school.. I just didn't like getting up after working until 2:00am and slept through my first couple of classes.. lol.   Yanno.. mama always said "if you don't have anything nice to say then just don't say anything at all", so I didn't feel good about joining in here....  but I'm gonna answer this question with a resounding "NO WAY"!

My daughter says top 10 reasons that fat is good: 1) You don't have to worry about REAL loser****ting on you. 2) Depending on how fat you are, you walk like a penguin. Penguins are cute. 3) Everyone is scared of you because they think it is contagious so you don't have anyone buggin you. 4) You float better in a pool. 5) You wear your shoes in really fast. 6) Your six inch high foam flip flops will be four inches tall by the end of summer. 7) You get to laugh at all the funny looks people give you. 8) You have bigger boobs without plastic surgery. 9) When you eat alot, you don't look pregnant like skinny people. 10) When you get on the bus (she rides the school bus) you get to shove your butt in the faces of people you don't like.

Lol.. love the flip flop part. Brenda

Im the odd ball out!!!!!!!! I dont find anything great about being my size...Im not saying any of you are wrong!!! So PLEASE dont take it that way this not against any one of you or have anything to do with one of you...this is me and my thoughts on myself. Just to put that out there!  I never was "thin" always 150...so thick I like to say...Im still the same thick or FAT.  I dont find anything good about me being fat....I like being smaller...the things I do..I LIKE being wild lol. Im probably MORE wild now than I was....even tho I am pretty sure as soon as the fat melts away oh I am gonna be a WILDCHILD no doubt about that! Definitely being in Chicago!!!  I just dont find toooo much of a difference between myself being thinner or fatter. Just the body appearance...nothing changes for me.  Boyfriends still good still bad, I've dated all sizes..I never really cared even when I was thinner I like men ALL men lol.  School...same either way.  My confidence OFCOURse is better thin...but I have great confidence right now being my weight.  I dunno.....ODD BALL right here!

no Christa, you are not alone.  I get more stumped about that question - like you, far and away, it sucks being thick/fat/whatever. It is what it is, though.  Even "thin" - my body is NOT. I will always be thick.

2 things that spring to mind:

1) agree with many others- insight into feeling like the odd one out and therefore not wanting to make others feel that way- including instilling that value to my children

2) Seriously, I felt warmer.  I can't believe how cold I feel now I am thinner- I freeze in winter.

Em

I have been asked this before, and kind of stumped me, to tell you the truth.  I think my "payoffs" for being fat were unconscious level, for the most part. Overall, it was not positive in most ways. Randomly listed: 1.  sexual protection from my first husband who was such a creep. 2.  avoidance of issues - cocoon of fat 3.  more male friends (who at one time i used to prefer over female friends - until i became proud of being a woman, then all comers are awesome for my pals) 4.  More freedom to really be "me".  I always, perhaps vaguely/incorrectly, perceived that thinner gals had more pressure on them to be a *certain* way.  5.  Perception that I was more independent, strong, stand alone. 

Ha, brenda...had to laugh..that may have been true for me as well about the wilder guys:  i was pretty ****ty as it was back in the day...god knows if I had had a body to flaunt what would have happened.

No.  There's nothing good about being fat.  I think I'd be just as compassionate and nice had I been thin.  I think that a whole different world of opportunities would have been available and open to me had I kept myself healthy.  I never had self confidence due to being obese...the exact opposite, actually.  I never felt like I was calm and confident...realizing that I had to depend on myself only led me to feeling lonely.  I'm far too pleasing and far too nice now after having lived an entire life either being fat or feeling fat.  I don't buy any of these things...being fat has been largely a long string of uncomfortable experiences interrupted by moments of laughter.  Not to mention, I don't find fat people to necessarily be more mindful or more open-minded.  My little brother has downs syndrome...just as many fat people pick on him as skinny people.  Just as many fat people stare rudely and point at him and giggle behind hands as skinny people.  Being fat does not automatically make you a better person.  I think there are just as many understanding, compassionate skinny people in the world...and being thin now, I can still figure out who is coming at me with a line of bull**** and who is being real.  I don't think being fat helped facilitate that sense of realization in me.  Anyway, those are my opinions on the matter...peace. 

I actually agree with much of what you state here. It is complete baloney that thin people do not feel compassion - it is not fair. Most of the fat people I know are not jolly - QUITE the opposite:  rather hateful, pissed, way too sensitive, sarcastic. There are exceptions...the only fair statement is that my thin and fat friends have human qualities. Truly, being fat for me was a handicap all around. It did hold me back in my life, maybe from my own perceptions, but nonetheless.  On the other hand, my life, having been fatter than most for most of my adult life, was not a complete bust. I did make do, and made the best of it.  I get where you are coming from.