Skinny ***** joke...

So tonight as I was reading some posts here I recalled a few funny jokes I use to say when I was obese. I dealt with the lack of self esteem by making fun of myself which in retrospect probably attracted more attention to my size than if I had of just kept my mouth shut. LOL Anyway I was wondering if anyone would like to share some of the puns or quips that you found/find humorous? This is not meant to offend or insult anyone but also make us aware of how oversensitive some people have become. I am not taking credit for creating these...probably heard or read them somewhere. Here are some of mine:

1. There is a skinny woman inside of me screaming hard to get out. But I can generally shut her up by shoving a bag of cookies down my throat.
2. I take a size 8 but a 40 is much more comfortable. (I really do wear a size 8 now)
3. You know if the cookies are broken they are calorie free because the calories escape once they're broken. (yes you can break them first to achieve this before eating them)
4. If you drink a Diet Coke and eat a chocolate bar the calories cancel each other out.
5. Believe it or not at one time in my life I weighed 8pounds 2ounces!

Hope I made you laugh! Keep up the great works my skinny friends!

Chris

P.S. Anyone else find Grimtraveler hilarious??? I love his comments so much. I always feel better after reading them.

I was the queen ( in my mind anyway ) of self-deprecating humor. I always made jokes at my own expense. I figured I'd go ahead and make the fat jokes first so other people couldn't. My favorite was "Hey, fat people are harder to kidnap, so I'm kidnap proof!" Ba dum dum. 

I was saying that loooooong before all the "The more you weigh...eat cake" memes started showing up on facebook. 

I still make fun of myself...haha. I just make fun in different ways. I know there's probably some deeper meaning to my doing that, but eh...whatevs.

And yes, Grim is pretty awesome. He's our number 1 boy hag around these parts. 

Edited because I'm just a dork who can't proofread. 

I used to do this, too.  In fact, it was so ingrained in me, that I continued to do it despite now being of "normal" weight -- which sometimes made me a "skinny *****" for real.  

All joking aside, I have a real issue understanding that I am no longer visibly obese when I am  with my people. I still relate better, or at least gravitate towards obese/fat people, but now they often don't see me as "one of them."  Sometimes, I feel like I am "passing."

A few months ago, around Halloween, I made one of my self-deprecating jokes at a research conference and my dear friend and colleague pulled me aside.  She is obese and we've been friends for  a long time.  She said, "you know, you have to stop doing that Kathryn."  

She explained that it looked as though I was fishing for compliments -- to which I was utterly shocked.  I still see myself as 347 lbs -- I hadn't even considered how it was making other people feel.  I would never ever want to make others feel badly about themselves, body shame, or seek attention in that way.  She reminded me that a lot of people had no idea that I'd ever been obese -- and those who did know me, have adjusted to the new me.  She even admitted that several times she had stuck up for me after I'd left the room and explained that I had been SMO and wasn't a "skinny *****"

It was shocking to me.

Since then, I have tried very very hard to break this habit.  I sometimes feel like a stranger who no longer knows the songs of her people.  

I wonder if I will always be a fat woman deep inside.  

Two and a half years out, and I still identify more with obese women than thin "normies", but of course I can identify with other post WLS women. Two of my best friends are morbidly obese. My very best friend ( I call her my sister from another mister ) was just diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. My heart hurts for her.

And, yes, I too still feel like a fat woman inside. I lived all of my adult life up until the last 2 years as a morbidly obese person, and I think it will definitely take some more years for that mindset to go away. If it never fully goes away, I think I will be okay with that. For better or for worse, my obesity was a part of my life for a long time.

Even if the day comes that I feel like a skinny chick on the inside, I will never, ever be able to forget what it feels like to be heavy. I don't think I want to forget, but I'm weird that way.

And Kat, WE are your people too, and you know our songs.

Wow. Thanks for your comments. I am just at the beginning of this experience. I have started to struggle more with food again and I have also begun to wonder if part of the dynamic is my reluctance to unjoin the club I always hated in many ways. i am facing temptations to throw shoes into the machinery. I need to stay focused on health and longevity as my goal. Thanks again. 

No sabotage for you.

Oh my god this was me this weekend. I have been all over the place with emotions of who I am. When someone says I look great I have learned to say thank you.

I almost sometimes do not feel worthy of the compliments. 

Everyone thinks us big fat guys are jolly. We're not all jolly, even if our bellies shake, like a bowl full of jelly.

I hate that that is true and that when you were fat you were not happy.  

My Dad, who was obese most of his adult life was referred to as "Jolly Wally".  I hated that nick name as he was a lot of things but Jolly sure as hell wasn't one of them.