# Am I still fat?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 17, 2015, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057 "2015-01-17T08:20:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@IncognitoOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IncognitoOne)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/1 "2015-01-17T08:20:11Z")
Be brutally honest.
[ ](https://i.imgur.com/m3b1ZpD.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Dereknocue67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dereknocue67)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/2 "2015-01-17T08:33:07Z")
In a word, no.
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### Author:  [@desertmonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desertmonk)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/3 "2015-01-17T08:54:59Z")
What? No, you’re not fat.
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### Author:  [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/4 "2015-01-17T12:26:05Z")
You’re a very healthy specimen of womanhood!
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### Author:  [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/5 "2015-01-17T12:29:06Z")
No. You do have about 10 more pounds to go, though.
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### Author:  [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/6 "2015-01-17T12:38:13Z")
You’re not fat at all.
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### Author:  [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/7 "2015-01-17T13:00:17Z")
No, you look great!
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### Author:  [@desertmonk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/desertmonk)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/8 "2015-01-17T13:20:29Z")
> [@Lucretia](#):
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> No. You do have about 10 more pounds to go, though.
OP, ignore this. A ten pound difference isn’t noticeable; hell, I can get on the scale now and again tonight and the number will be five pounds different.
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### Author:  [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/9 "2015-01-17T13:34:41Z")
> [@Lucretia](#):
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> No. You do have about 10 more pounds to go, though.
Because of what, exactly? To reach some arbitrary beauty standard?
The OP needs to be a healthy weight. From what I can judge from the photos she seems to have that. Apart from that, all that is important is what she feels comfortable with.
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### Author:  [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/10 "2015-01-17T13:41:58Z")
How \*you \*doin’?
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### Author:  [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/11 "2015-01-17T14:00:18Z")
**DISCLAIMER:** For the purpose of this exercise I will assume that we aren’t being trolled, that the OP is actually the woman in the photographs, and that she is genuinely interested in brutal honesty about her appearance.
Like the others, I wouldn’t consider her fat. I think she looks fine.
That said, in the first photo, she does appear to still have some belly fat and would probably be considered slightly overweight on the BMI or body-fat percentage scale. So if that’s that’s the goal, or the OP is trying for an “athletic” figure, I’d say **Lucretia** is not incorrect.
> [@PookahMacPhellimey](#):
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> Because of what, exactly? To reach some arbitrary beauty standard?
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> The OP needs to be a healthy weight. From what I can judge from the photos she seems to have that. Apart from that, all that is important is what she feels comfortable with.
I agree, although if she were already fully comfortable I don’t think she’d have started this thread.
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### Author:  [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/12 "2015-01-17T14:05:56Z")
> [@IncognitoOne](#):
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> Be brutally honest.
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> [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://i.imgur.com/m3b1ZpD.jpg)
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> [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://i.imgur.com/JCjNyvF.jpg)
Brutally honest?.. OK. Are you looking for abuse or attention?
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### Author:  [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/13 "2015-01-17T14:30:57Z")
Sure, why not?
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/14 "2015-01-17T14:51:33Z")
> [@PookahMacPhellimey](#):
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> Because of what, exactly? To reach some arbitrary beauty standard?
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> The OP needs to be a healthy weight. From what I can judge from the photos she seems to have that. Apart from that, all that is important is what she feels comfortable with.
Isn’t it normal for the breasts to lose size with weight loss?
And where did the stretch marks go?
And the breasts have completely disappeared in the side view.
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/15 "2015-01-17T15:49:41Z")
Is the second photo the same person?
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### Author:  [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/16 "2015-01-17T16:12:08Z")
Still too many clothes on for me to make an honest decision…
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/17 "2015-01-17T16:33:18Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> Is the second photo the same person?
Are any of the three of the same person?
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/18 "2015-01-17T17:12:37Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Isn’t it normal for the breasts to lose size with weight loss?
> And where did the stretch marks go?
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> And the breasts have completely disappeared in the side view.
No they are pushed up high and being squashed together in a sports bra per the first pics. I’m assuming these are post pregnancy pics as the stretch marks are (seemingly) all belly centered. There is some gut sucking going on, but no the second pic would not be “fat” to a normal person although it might be to an athletic person especially if muscle tone is poor. The arms appear a bit blubbery even in the second more slender pic so not sure how much of this is strategic tensioned posing.
If this is just weight loss and you have not been working out don’t have some decent muscle then you’re a lot more apt be judged fat. So no, not “fat” but looked at critically (which is what the OP wants) she’s a touch fluffy in the second pic and could stand to drop another 10-15 lbs if she wants a more athletic look. Some arm exercises for definition also would not hurt.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/19 "2015-01-17T17:33:05Z")
This is bull shit guys, these pics were lifted from another message board [here](http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=165634371). The pics are two years old.
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-still-fat/710057/20 "2015-01-17T17:40:00Z")
> [@Shakes](#):
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> This is bull shit guys, these pics were lifted from another message board [here](http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=165634371). The pics are two years old.
Oops my bad NOT two years old.
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