"You're So Skinny...

...you have to run around in the shower to get wet."

That is my best friend's favorite joke about me. Anyways, I was wondering if anyone else has any funny or mean things people have said to them about being thin or underweight.

Finally I have found somewhere to vent my frustrations about this!!  I have always been very skinny, I don't help this because my eating habits are poor, but it is also genetic and my whole family is on the skinny side.  People are unbelievably rude about skinny people.  I have had people point at me in the street and say "Oh my god, look at that girl she's so skinny she looks disgusting"... It's awful, I feel un-womanly and unattractive. Even my friends will say "you've lost weight!" all the time despite the fact that my weight has been stable for the past 6 years.  It is hurtful because it is meant as a negative comment.  I think sometimes there is an element of jealousy "Oh you're so lucky you can eat what you want - but I wouldn't want to be as skinny as you", what people don't realise is that most people are insecure about their body in one way or another, even skinny people...

The media is also pretty merciless, you're either too fat or "dangerously thin".  The emphasis should be on your health not your appearance. I wouldn't dream of commenting on someone's weight be they over or under weight. It's socially unacceptable to tell someone they're fat, it should be equally unacceptable to tell someone they're too thin!!!

Original Post by nyousif:

Finally I have found somewhere to vent my frustrations about this!!  I have always been very skinny, I don't help this because my eating habits are poor, but it is also genetic and my whole family is on the skinny side.  People are unbelievably rude about skinny people.  I have had people point at me in the street and say "Oh my god, look at that girl she's so skinny she looks disgusting"... It's awful, I feel un-womanly and unattractive. Even my friends will say "you've lost weight!" all the time despite the fact that my weight has been stable for the past 6 years.  It is hurtful because it is meant as a negative comment.  I think sometimes there is an element of jealousy "Oh you're so lucky you can eat what you want - but I wouldn't want to be as skinny as you", what people don't realise is that most people are insecure about their body in one way or another, even skinny people...

The media is also pretty merciless, you're either too fat or "dangerously thin".  The emphasis should be on your health not your appearance. I wouldn't dream of commenting on someone's weight be they over or under weight. It's socially unacceptable to tell someone they're fat, it should be equally unacceptable to tell someone they're too thin!!!

AGREED 100000%

I think that if people are comfortable with their own bodies, and are generally happy with the direction their life is going in, then they ARE ABLE to give proper compliments.

People who are not fundamentally happy with specific things in their life, ESPECIALLY their body weight, tend to comment on weight more then normal, and also cannot give a compliment properly (any weight remarks always tend to be sarcasm, or something like “ you skinny b!tch” etc…..)

I never get "wow you look so skinny" sort of comments in a good way,
I always get things like "go eat a steak or something"
and in self-defence class; "I'm too scared to hit you because I think I'll snap you're wrist"
yeah, like oh gee thanks, what a great way to boost my confidence and self esteem o_O

and when I first began recovery, "wow, you're eating a fredo frog! but you'll get fat" -> well, I'm obviously trying to gain weight, my stomach looks like I'm pregnant at the moment when the rest of me is still bony :/

Wolfie deja vu anyone?

MOD!

I think this thread should probably be given up for dead, wolfey/spook_killer/you_goddamn_baby is gonna carry on coming back and stirring it up cuz he knows it annoys us

For pete's sake. This is why I wish websites like this had better security systems.

by totally ignoring idiots who have nothing better to do in their lives then try to get reactions from other people,     WE will have won lol.        ;

this thread is a great thread for a lot of people, so from now on,  lets all totally ignore/stop responding to losers;  by responding we are letting enabling.

I hate being skinny, which makes me not so confident,... I have to sleep on a soft bed, cause it's painful to sleep on a hard bed... in winter, I feel cold. in summer I feel hot.  I get no benifit from being skinny.  And some people always laugh at me. And I feel not looking-good because of being skinny.

to be continue....have to sleep right now, or become more skinny tomorrow..

it is hard for me to hear people complain, because I think it looks nice to be skinny (although not sickly so)         I am about 114 lbs at about 5 ' 5 now, so BMI 19, and I am very curvy at this weight and until recently I was thinner and I loved the way I looked much better, and other peopel thought I looked better too....   so when I hear ppl complain about being skinny , a part of me thinks " well you lucky, I wish I was thinner again" lol.        ;  but I can empathize, despite not knowing how you feel!

I think this is why a lot of others do not see it as a burden - most people are not thin, and WANT to be thinner, therfore think you are lucky to be thin and are mad to complain lol....      &n bsp;        ; I know this is not the case and I do realize that you have just as much reason to complain then a big person does, despite my own desire to be thitnner again!

sorry everybody-this WAS a good forum, but it kind of has taken a turn for the worse. we dont need to be talking about the positives of looking thin when so many are struggling with accepting thier "goal" or "Healthy" weights. I have reported this thread as a violation......it has become that. sorry to be the spoil sport:(:(

Original Post by myvalentinesquest:

sorry everybody-this WAS a good forum, but it kind of has taken a turn for the worse. we dont need to be talking about the positives of looking thin when so many are struggling with accepting thier "goal" or "Healthy" weights. I have reported this thread as a violation......it has become that. sorry to be the spoil sport:(:(

 I am in total agreement. There's really nothing left to say and I'll leave it at that.

Hello, I have afriend who said that I look like Rivet because iam skinny to.

other call me look like cucumber haha iam patient person ,indeed i take it as fun but sometimes it irritates me .

Yeah .. I was at a party the other week and some guy goes "hey come here!" so i walk over and im like "what is it?" and hes like "do you plan on eating some time this month?"... really sucks. especially when your struggling to gain weight. I just walked away.

well i have been skinny my entire life...until i met several girls at a new position, and they commented how 'bony' 'invisible' i was etc.

perhaps it was to get at me so i would eat more and not look so much skinnier than them. well, it worked. i gained 30lbs since and i can't stop eating.

i'm still far from overweight because i've a really high metabolism (which explains why i had always been skinny), but when i lose these 30lbs again, i've learnt: NEVER get affected by comments again...

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your posts do have a trend of carrying unhealthy eating habits. if you didn't realize your journal entries (most of which promote starvation diets) were public, why do they contain questions such as "will this make me lose weight?" or "is this unhealthy?" who are you asking?! rhetorical question?! of course eating 400-600 calories a day is unhealthy. myself and many others in this forum have nearly died from similar amounts, and i would hope those kids of posts would get someone kicked off of this website.

Do you only eat 600 calories a day?

If you do, and if you think this is acceptable, then get the heck of this site.

There are people with eating disorders who actually WANT to get better. If you do not want to eat more then 600 calories a day, then go and under eat in private - it is insensitive to those people who are trying to eat more when they see some one who thinks it is okay to eat 600 calories every day.

It also sounds obvious that you revolve around your weight, and that gaining even 0.9 of a pound would literally ruin your life

You have a fantastic body in your picture, so it is a sad waste of your time if you spend too long thinking about food and weight!

What is the point of having your great body if you have to think about calories all the time (which is not fun lol)

Being called/asked if I'm a tweaker.

(Tweaker = meth user, by the way. I live in a part of the country where meth use runs rampant, and the "tweakers" are usually very skinny and sickly looking)

I hear that ecwk6! I had one chick (now a good friend of mine) tell me I looked really "sexy" when I was significantly underweight but then also later admit that she suspected I was a crackhead. She was like "actually yeah, that was the first thing I thought when I first saw you... that chick is on crack".

Ive already posted here but just had to add some recent gems

in work from a customer "Do u eat?"

"Eat something"

Umm yeah NO i never eat, I'm superhuman.... ahh!!

So annoying espec seeing as I have recently gained weight (hard for me).Felt like saying , if u think Im thin now you should of seen me before! LOL.